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Just bought a pair of used Intel E5-2673v4 (20C/40T) for $450 each, an E-ATX ASUS motherboard for 99EUR, and 256GB DDR4 for $700.

A little older (~2017), but the whole system at a lower price than a 3970X, for similar performance on my embarrassingly parallel workloads, at similar TDP.

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There is no way those even come close to a single 3970x or even the 3960x. This latest generation of AMD processors made all the old “good deals” pretty much crap.

Not saying your machine isn’t nice, but the CPUs were probably not worth it. Each of the 30000 series Threadrippers will be about 50% faster in single core benchmarks than the 2673v4 and have better multi-core results.

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