No introduction needed, 16c/32t of CPU, most people are never going to need this but at over £80 cheaper than anywhere in the UK, it's a stonking deal (IMO). No cooler included, before anyone asks :stuck_out_tongue:
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Once in the basket the CPU is €90.86, then the shipping is only €6.00.
Paid for in € with a fee free card, including shipping it comes a total of €913.86, which translates to £806-807 depending on the card used, and exchange rate when you check out.
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Uncommon.Sense
22 Sep 17#1
No introduction needed, 16c/32t of CPU, most people are never going to need this but at over £80 cheaper than anywhere in the UK, it's a stonking deal (IMO). No cooler included, before anyone asks :stuck_out_tongue:
Dispatched & Sold by Amazon.
Once in the basket the CPU is €90.86, then the shipping is only €6.00.
Paid for in € with a fee free card, including shipping it comes a total of €913.86, which translates to £806-807 depending on the card used, and exchange rate when you check out.
OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#2
Why would anyone actually need this at home?
Leeman20 to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#4
gamers nexus did a fairly good video explaining the real world uses for a cpu of this magnitude. While i agree it probably isn't for the average person, its probably even too much for the enthusiast crowd but it does have a market, albeit fairly small.
Graham1979 to Leeman20
23 Sep 17#18
Eh? There is no reason for 50% of tech like this for average consumers but "mines better than yours" is PRICELESS.
Uncommon.Sense to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#5
Depends, maybe you are a self employed person who needs this sort of CPU power and works from home? :smile:
OrribleHarry to Uncommon.Sense
22 Sep 17#6
Encoding 4k movies for Hollywood?
Uncommon.Sense to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#9
Yes, the next Jurassic Park movie is currently being rendered out in John's basement who lives in South Wales.
taras to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#10
*youtube
taras to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#8
If you can't see a use for it, then its not for you. For some its like hot candy source...
Agharta to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#11
Useful mainly for people doing demanding video work but also if you are running heavy duty VMs, databases etc which is a small niche compared to video.
Joshimitsu91 to Agharta
22 Sep 17#15
I don't think development work is a small niche compared to video, probably more people doing that work than rendering videos for a living.
Agharta to Joshimitsu91
23 Sep 17#19
The context was home users rather than professionals so how many amateur developers can really utilise a 16 core chip compared to the number of home users messing around with 4K video footage that their phone or DSLR has captured?
Joshimitsu91 to Agharta
23 Sep 17#21
Plenty of contractors, hobbyists, students I imagine. Don't forget rendering video implies you most likely paid for the software to do so as well, not sure that market is very big for home users. I think people say rendering as the first example they think of but there are plenty of other uses.
But yes most home users don't need a £1000 CPU.
Agharta to Joshimitsu91
23 Sep 17#22
When he/she said home users that typically means amateurs so that rules out contractors. Most video editing software for home users is under £100 so that's not much compared to an £800 CPU which requires a ~£300 motherboard. But video is also about transcoding Blu-ray etc so even for hobbyists there isn't much software that can scale to 32 threads outside of video based which is why I focused on that. I don't think you've dissuaded me of that and there aren't many students whose courses demand workstation hardware.
Joshimitsu91 to Agharta
23 Sep 17#24
I'm not trying to dissuade you, he said "Why would anyone actually need this at home?" - I am providing examples of that.
You have attached additional rules to the original comment.
edd666999 to OrribleHarry
22 Sep 17#14
For me ran with Unraid, I will have all of my machines ran from 1 box. Plex, Editing machine, Media machine, NAS.
Plenty of cores to go around :smile:
vaiopup to OrribleHarry
23 Sep 17#23
Good for distributed computing. I used to have over 100 cores running 24/7.
Then there's the GPU's!
Who needs central heating? :grin:
ssimonian
22 Sep 17#3
Great price for this Cpu. Heat added
tempt
22 Sep 17#7
Core heads never had it this good.
unconfirmed to tempt
23 Sep 17#20
All the core heads we be like “Ah, he got the Ryzens”
Blaat_blaat
22 Sep 17#12
This could be used by researchers aswell
Ev0lution
22 Sep 17#13
I'd love one of these just to say I built a rig with one of them!
It really is an absolute beast of a CPU.
Hammondhammond
22 Sep 17#16
Makes more sense than buying an iPhone
OrribleHarry to Hammondhammond
23 Sep 17#17
Agreed the iPhone is a joke. The non existence of crowds on launch day have confirmed the general opinion, Apple have dropped the ball.
fishmaster to Hammondhammond
23 Sep 17#26
Well it would be very weird to buy a phone when you actually needed a CPU. I wouldn't think you could get that mixed up, but to be fair there's a lot of stupid people about so maybe that does happen.
oldguy
23 Sep 17#25
Lots of VMs on one lump sounds like eggs and baskets
unconfirmed to oldguy
23 Sep 17#27
No. It’s the difference between putting one big egg in one big basket, or putting lots of little eggs in one big basket. Lots of little eggs is better if you were always going to have one basket, and if you do decide to buy another basket, it’s easier to move your little eggs around. If you decide to have an omelette you’ll still need to buy some ham though.
abaxas
23 Sep 17#28
Which GPU is best to pair with this?
1030 or rx 550?
TesseractOrion to abaxas
23 Sep 17#29
Yes
MazingerZ
23 Sep 17#30
for a 16 Core CPU that's a great price, however I'm unaware of how well TR peforms in real world? I'm assuming it's faster than a quad core i7?
Ev0lution to MazingerZ
24 Sep 17#31
Obviously for certain applications it is. It has 2 profiles Creative and Game. The Game mode switches off half of the cores and because of that its not faster than an i7 7700k at least not yet. Probably eventually through optimisation it will get better but no Ryzen chip is better than an i7 7700k for gaming.
arfster to MazingerZ
25 Sep 17#32
Depends on the software. A lot isn't really optimised for a very large number of threads, so diminishing returns kicks in really, really quickly.
That will change though, especially given Ryzen has made 16 threads mainstream.
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But yes most home users don't need a £1000 CPU.
Most video editing software for home users is under £100 so that's not much compared to an £800 CPU which requires a ~£300 motherboard.
But video is also about transcoding Blu-ray etc so even for hobbyists there isn't much software that can scale to 32 threads outside of video based which is why I focused on that.
I don't think you've dissuaded me of that and there aren't many students whose courses demand workstation hardware.
You have attached additional rules to the original comment.
Plenty of cores to go around :smile:
I used to have over 100 cores running 24/7.
Then there's the GPU's!
Who needs central heating? :grin:
It really is an absolute beast of a CPU.
1030 or rx 550?
That will change though, especially given Ryzen has made 16 threads mainstream.