Threadripper 1950X & ROG Zenith Extreme X399 Motherboard Review  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 11, 2017, 02:02:08 am
content: The names are awful"Threadripper" sounds more like a brand of impact wrench, andZenithbrings back memories of very un-computer-like electronics.

author: Ampera
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2017, 02:59:22 am
content: Quote from: amyk on August 11, 2017, 02:02:08 amThe primary reason for these names is to appeal largely to the gaming market that is now replacing the general consumer market. People don't need tower and monitors anymore to live their lives, they all have phones. The home microcomputing revolution is over for a lot of average people.The market is now primarily split into superusers, professionals, and gamers, with some people hitting some or all of those marks.However, Zenith is not an uncommon name for computers. Zenith Data Systems (a division of Zenith Electronics) was a fairly decently sized manufacturer in the 80's and 90's. They even sold to the US military, which is always a giant money maker. Even Zenith Electronics was a massive radio manufacturer, and is still owned by LG.

author: RGB255_0_0
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2017, 05:43:32 am
content: I don't agree regarding the naming. Epyc is the server SKU and it's not aimed at the gaming market. AMD's naming convention is crazy. But the CPUs themselves will stand on their own regardless.Threadripper isn't aimed at the gaming market either.Threadripper is high end enthusiast/HEDT and workstation usage.Standard Ryzen 5/7 are gaming and enthusiast. You can add the 3 for budget users but the APUs may be the better choice when they come out on desktop.

author: DG41WV
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2017, 01:04:38 pm
content: Quotehttps://segmentnext.com/2017/06/15/amd-ryzen-threadripper-name/

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 12, 2017, 02:46:06 pm
content: Intel and AMD want to sell the most expensive products they can to anyone. So ofcourse they will say HEDT platforms are great for gaming.Reference:https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i7-processor-extreme-edition.htmlGaming is alot about single to quad core performance. If you look at these HEDT chips, their single core speed is about as good as the old Ivy Bridge (5 years ago), but they got double to quadruple the amount of CPU cores.In addition, 4K gaming is mostly GPU limited so an i5/i7 or R5/R7 will do just as well.That's why they are advertising with "megatasking". E.g. gaming while you're streaming to Twitch/Youtube, rendering video, unpacking files, etc. at the same time. Sure these processors are a beast for video encoding on the CPU, but how many people in the world does that simultaneously?I'm not sure even of the usefulness for some workstation loads. I think E-CAD packages like Altium are mostly single core still, so a i7 7700 will probably perform better.Nevertheless it's exciting times to see how the mainstream will dragged up in a few years time. Hopefully we can finally say goodbye to dual cores and perhaps non-HT/SMT quadcores too...