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we've had high-end desktop or hedt processors for quite a while now you

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know those cpus that sit at the very top of the food chain that straddle the line

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between home pc and workstation with a high price tag to match

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and for a long time Intel dominated that market segment with its extreme edition

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and x-series processors but AMD has since fired back in a big way literally

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this is the AMD threadripper and i mean look at the size of it it's practically

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a coaster you can put your drink on this thing and save your table but other than

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leaving your neighbor's desktop with a feeling of inadequacy is it right for

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you and what should you know about it let's start out by looking at something

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straightforward core count although typical ryzen desktop chips have between

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4 and 16 cores threadripper cpus start

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at 8 cores and go all the way up to 64

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cores meaning that the chips are heavily marketed toward content creators who

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need fast rendering times and they all have simultaneous multi-threading so

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we're talking 128 threads on just one

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socket speaking of sockets it's pretty clear that a chip this chunky won't fit

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into your standard am4 motherboard instead threadripper uses the tr4 and

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str4 sockets which each have over 4 000

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contacts in case you're wondering AMD switched to str4 with the threadripper

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3000 series and despite looking the same as the older tr4 this two sockets are

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not compatible but aside from having more cores and a bigger footprint what's

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going on under the hood that really separates it from a normal ryzen chip

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well because threadripper is an enthusiast level lineup it's not just

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core count that's important it's also i o Threadripper trips have a lot more

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pci express lanes than the ryzen counterparts the first two generations

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had a full 60 PCIe 3.0 lanes coming

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directly off the chip with 48 linked to the slots on your motherboard enabling

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multi-GPU and the other 12 reserved for storage if you're using a 3000 series

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threadripper the number of lanes is bumped up to 64. and you get the new pci

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express 4.0 revision as well even if you're not into multi-GPU and hey we're

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not going to blame you if you're not this can still be useful if you're into

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virtualizing you need tons of storage or you're using something like fpga for

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crypto mining threadripper also features a larger level three cache than

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mainstream ryzen chips to keep all those cores fed and reduce cache misses during

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demanding workloads and if you're not sure what a cache miss is you can learn

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all about the importance of CPU cache in this video additionally all threadripper

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chips support quad channel RAM for performance boost as well as ecc or

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error correcting memory which can prevent crashes helpful if you're doing

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really critical work on your pc or using it to host a server we'd also be remiss

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if we didn't mention the threadripper pro lineup for actual workstations which

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uses yet another socket called swrx8 and will give you support for

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octa-channel memory but hold on a sec surely chips this large and powerful

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have to have some kind of downside right predictably threadripper cpus cost a lot

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more money when threadripper debuted back in 2017 the lower cost skew was 549

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and the current lineup at the time we shot this video starts at 1

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399 for a 24 core model and it goes all the

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way up into 4 grand if you want a 64 core model however although this is

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obviously a lot of money threadripper has had success beating Intel setups

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that cost around five times as much in benchmarks of course high cost isn't the

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only thing to look out for threadripper cpus are a little trickier to install on

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a motherboard than you might be used to and their higher tdps up to 280 watts

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mean you'll need a cooler that's up to task but we wouldn't recommend setting a

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glass of ice water on it even if it is the size of a coaster this episode is

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