AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 64 Thread Review

This is the CPU we've been looking for. If your workload requires threads and also has some low-thread count aspects, then this processor is for you. This guy is more than happy to encode a 4k source file with all 64 streams at 4.0GHz and then reverse and upclock to 4.5GHz for low thread count applications. If you're running a first-gen 1950x threadripper like me, this is the difference between day and night. All the little quirks of the first generation have been eliminated. For example…

I haven't built this computer with a thread breaker yet, but I shipped this $2,000 processor before I got all the other components. I am a little concerned that I received a used item. The box was fully sealed and well packaged. However, when you open the accessory box to find a dynamometer and stickers, the packaging is badly damaged. Similar to how someone previously tried to uninstall the torque driver and struggled with it. I will update my review in July when AMD releases the new rdna…

I've built several Ryzen boxes so I'm sure this is a great processor. - what I did. The inside and outside of the box may be tightly connected and then quickly separate about a quarter or a third of the length of the box. The only real way to know what's going to happen is to open it early. After that, nothing stands in the way of the internal processor package falling out. There are two more layers of packaging, but they're not as shock-absorbing. I thought I was writing this warning because I

A monster has been released that can handle multitasking or heavily multithreaded programs with ease! I mainly used this CPU to automate operations that would take much longer on other CPUs with fewer cores. When using all 64 hardware threads, I see a clock speed of 3.8GHz, but this increases to 4.2GHz when using a single thread based on the default settings. (I know I could increase this value if I wanted to.) Threads past 32 seem to be 1/4 faster, so using all 64 threads past 32 results in a…