Review on High-performance AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X (8-core/16-thread) Desktop Processor — Unleash Remarkable Processing Power! by Mike Slippy

Threadripper is great for editing HD videos like 4K or up to Red 8k. My old quad-core Intel i7 couldn't even handle 8K at 1/4 resolution in Premiere Pro and I had to use a proxy for editing. Threadripper copies the footage without any problems, I can play almost the full resolution smoothly on the timeline, only a few frames are skipped. Smooth at 1/2 resolution. Render times are equally impressive. If you use Lightroom or Photoshop it works fine too. However, if these are your main programs, I recommend picking the fastest clocked processor you can get, as they don't also use multiple threads and I've noticed slightly slower performance with Threadripper compared to my old Intel i7 at 4.3 GHz. However, Threadripper is very easy to overclock with the AMD Ryzen Master program and certainly helps to improve performance in certain applications. The gameplay is great for a workstation processor, playing the latest games in very high details and only 20-30 fps slower than a fast Intel processor. Some early reports said Adobe Premiere Pro CC didn't work well with Threadripper, didn't make good use of multiple cores, but I can see all 32 threads being used at 100% load while editing red frames, and around 60% average GPU -Workload. I think most of the problems you can read about were caused by early motherboards, ASUS boards in particular. I am using a Gigabyte X399 Designare EX motherboard and it was very easy for me to install and set up the processor and it was very stable. Just make sure when installing the CPU that you tighten each screw a little at a time in a 1-2-3 sequence, then go back and tighten them all in a 1-2-3 sequence in that order firmly and you shouldn't have any problem. I also recommend using the Enermax LIQTECH TR4 240-360mm AIO liquid CPU cooler, which is very quiet and keeps the CPU cool at around 30C at idle and around 50C at full load.