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Shed a Tear for HEDT: Official Threadripper Pro Pricing Marks the End of an Era

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I think the single most frustrating thing about the decline of HEDT is that both Intel and AMD are sticking like glue to 24 lanes of PCIe on their desktop processors. If you want multiple NVMe drives or if you want to raid NVMe you need to take PCIe lanes away from the GPU. What I really want is 36 or 40 lanes on something built with frequency in mind.

If either of them put out a flagship $600 CPU with 40 lanes of PCIe I would probably jump on it.

I very much agree! Having a middle-ground cpu was awesome: quad channel ram, 64x pcie, attainably priced. Awesome & will be sorely missed.

It'll be interesting to see if higher rev pcie (5.0, 6.0) ever start getting used in new ways. Im not sure that it makes sense to have even a flagship gaming GPU using 16x slots at 5.0. Seeing motherboards with a mix of slot sizes would be neat.

Damn shame, I was actually looking forward to buying a TR 5000 based workstation. But not at these prices.

Wonder what would people suggest if one is looking into a long-term many-core Linux workstation setup as of today?

I'd reckon probably a refurbished ThinkStation P620 with a TR Pro 3000 CPU?

> Wonder what would people suggest if one is looking into a long-term many-core Linux workstation setup as of today?

Well, ryzen 5000-family and threadripper 3000-family core count do not intersect(16v24). if you need more than 16 cores and dont mind spending twice as much per core, go with threadripper. otherwise, ryzen 5950x is an absolute beast when cooled properly and is only $480

Yeah I'm heavily leaning to a 5950x machine as well. But maybe I'll wait for the Ryzen 7000 lineup first. Thank you.

may as well go for EPYC

Not a bad idea in fact. Any ideas where can I source some that are not jet engines and don't cost north of $10,000?

Sounds like it's time for ARM to fill the void and make AMD hungry again.

i couldn't see myself running ARM especially if it wasn't apple silicon, i feel like the OS/app support would be terrible and I'd run into bugs that I couldn't fix. x86 just werks

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