Recent content by Solarion

"Of course, switching into Game mode might enable higher performance in some situations, but we don't think professional users will tolerate constant reboots to toggle back and forth." A professional would simply find a more palatable solution. For instance one could simply use a program like...

Labeling a particular kit as "Threadripper RAM" is a nice marketing gimmick, but won't actually change much. They already did this with their FlareX line for Ryzen. Really all they're doing is including XMP profiles that are more compatible with Ryzen/Threadripper, which may make it easier for...

Sure, LTT had a video of a computer with 7? single slot GPUs on a single mobo too...think it was centered around GPU pass-thru for VMs. There are definitely a couple options out there, but they're expensive and selection is extremely limited. If you just want GPGPU compute performance you won't...

Right. At this point you'd have to use PCIe risers to connect all those GPUs. The MSI x399 carbon I'm on currently has 6 PCIe slots, though two of those are x1 and two are electrically x8...not that you need x16 for GPU rendering. In short...get PCIe risers/ribbon cable extensions and be happy...

The temp offset thing has largely been changed, but it depends on what you're reading temps with. +27 was the correct offset for threadripper previously. Whatever you're using to read 44-50(ryzen master perhaps?) then that's likely accurate. 3700Mhz is max all core boost on a 1950x, mine does...

If a 5% or so performance delta is worth $700 to you...then maybe get the 7960x in a month or so when they're actually available. Course then for a mere $300 moar you could get the 7980xe. That's only $2k. Just be prepared with some hefty cooling...that thing is going to bring the heat.

Doesn't work in MSI z270 SLI Plus either. At this point I'm assuming the drive is faulty and returning it for exchange. The real question is...exchange for same or for something that's on the mobo manufacturer's QVL. Wish the Sammy 960 EVO didn't have such a horrible TBW and/or the 960 Pro...

Yeah, that's why I gave it a shot...despite it not appearing on the QVL, but unfortunately it doesn't show up in BIOS on the MSI x399. I've now tried 4 different BIOS revisions from MSI with no change on this front. I'm going to pester MSI a bit to see if I can get support for this ridiculously...

...except a 7700k doesn't outperform either threadripper OR a skylake-x chip for parallel tasks does it? It's not even close...despite it's IPC and clock rate advantages. That's why there are server chips and that's why there are HEDT platforms. Is this somehow new information? So what would...

The stagnation in desktop x86 CPUs was blatantly obvious prior to this year. No competition for the past several years hasn't served anyone well, save a certain #2 chip company and their shareholders. This has been a fantastic year for progress on this front, not just for AMD, but for anyone...