Hello,
I'm looking for help finding best suited CPU/platform for my needs.
As this will be my PC for at least few years, It is quite hard for me to decide which platform should I choose.
PC will be used for the following:
-Virtualization in general
-network emulation projects
-software compilation (Linux)
-some video transcoding
-GPU passthrough gaming
My final struggle was to go with Threadripper 1920x or i7-7820x.
AMD offer is certainly interesting and more future proof choice, 7820x looks more optimal for my case...
So far i7-7820x wins, but I'm not quite comfort with it's limited PCIe lanes and other weaknesses, TIM under IHS etc.
I will be using 16x for gaming GPU + 8x for VM host Desktop GPU and 4x for NVMe drive = 28 lanes, i7-7820x have 28 PCIe lanes.
After "new tech itching" stopped, my next thought: maybe x99 isn't that bad choice, it has quite rich CPU compatibility and it's well tested.
x299 equivalent in number of cores on x99 platform is i7-6900k(or few Xeon models) but it's price is still closer to 10 core i9-7900x, so it's not so good deal.
CPU will be paired with AIO cooler and 32GB of RAM on fitting motherboard.
I would be extremely thankful for any advice
I'm looking for help finding best suited CPU/platform for my needs.
As this will be my PC for at least few years, It is quite hard for me to decide which platform should I choose.
PC will be used for the following:
-Virtualization in general
-network emulation projects
-software compilation (Linux)
-some video transcoding
-GPU passthrough gaming
My final struggle was to go with Threadripper 1920x or i7-7820x.
AMD offer is certainly interesting and more future proof choice, 7820x looks more optimal for my case...
So far i7-7820x wins, but I'm not quite comfort with it's limited PCIe lanes and other weaknesses, TIM under IHS etc.
I will be using 16x for gaming GPU + 8x for VM host Desktop GPU and 4x for NVMe drive = 28 lanes, i7-7820x have 28 PCIe lanes.
After "new tech itching" stopped, my next thought: maybe x99 isn't that bad choice, it has quite rich CPU compatibility and it's well tested.
x299 equivalent in number of cores on x99 platform is i7-6900k(or few Xeon models) but it's price is still closer to 10 core i9-7900x, so it's not so good deal.
CPU will be paired with AIO cooler and 32GB of RAM on fitting motherboard.
I would be extremely thankful for any advice
