I wish I had not built an Epyc based workstation last year. This looks like a spectacular release.
Sell last year's Epyc workstation on the used market and buy a new one.
(Seriously - I'm about ready to buy a used Zen1 workstation.)
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
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#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Check out the buildapcsales subreddit, that's where I consistently find the biggest discounts.
I don't care about getting it at a discount, I care about getting it at MSRP...
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1485447-REG/amd_100_1...
B&H Photo is a reputable site, and they are advertising the 3900X at $499. Now whether they will ship anytime soon...
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#203The build team has already started to look for a 1RU, 2 server blade, 2 cores each server to buy to test our workload on it. Space and power vs. test and build throughput wins all battles. Great job AMD. Me personally, I just want to know if it can handle Civ6 with huge map and 18 AI players. It’s the little things..
Civ AI is still single-threaded so the 9900k and 9700k are the reigning champions. Zen 2 brought AMD close to parity though.
Is there any benefit to multicore on Civ6 at all?
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am curious why you think it will not work as well as last time. It is not as if law enforcement is more active now. Generally law enforcement at the moment is forbidden to touch the big fish, since the biggest fish sets policy.
The first AMD v Intel cost Intel $10 million. The second cost $1.25 billion. A third one would be immense. Also, Intel is operating under a consent decree and FTC supervision until October 29, 2020. The FTC would come down hard on direct violations of the decree.
Intel put $5B into Itanic, destroyed by Athlon.
But the consent decree is new to me. I guess FTC has been slightly more active than I gave them credit for.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am curious why you think it will not work as well as last time. It is not as if law enforcement is more active now. Generally law enforcement at the moment is forbidden to touch the big fish, since the biggest fish sets policy.
The first AMD v Intel cost Intel $10 million. The second cost $1.25 billion. A third one would be immense. Also, Intel is operating under a consent decree and FTC supervision until October 29, 2020. The FTC would come down hard on direct violations of the decree.
Intel still to this day hasnt paid that $1 billion
https://pcper.com/2016/06/intel-still-hasnt-paid-amd-the-1-2...
and it looks like they finally brib^^convinced right people and have a chance of cancelling it https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/business/intel-eu-antitru...
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
Odd. I was in Microcenter on Tuesday and they had a few 3900X's in the case. When I was there closer to launch, there weren't any and they told me that people would come in and ask for them before they even hit the shelf.
Which Microcenter location though? The Fairfax one the employee in the section on Sunday said the two boxes in the floor cases were 3700X and not 3900X because the boxes for the 3900X are larger.
Tustin, CA
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first AMD v Intel cost Intel $10 million. The second cost $1.25 billion. A third one would be immense. Also, Intel is operating under a consent decree and FTC supervision until October 29, 2020. The FTC would come down hard on direct violations of the decree.
Intel still to this day hasnt paid that $1 billion https://pcper.com/2016/06/intel-still-hasnt-paid-amd-the-1-2... and it looks like they finally brib^^convinced right people and have a chance of cancelling it https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/business/intel-eu-antitru...
According to those articles it is the EU fine that isn't paid. From what I've heard the US fine is basically what paid for the Zen R&D. Karma.
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#208Page 4 ( https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen/4 ) lines up AMD's prices, core counts, and frequencies with Intel's. AT says all these have 128 PCIe 4 lanes and support up to 4TB RAM aper socket. Intel's own competitive analysis figured competition in servers "is likely to be the most intense in about a decade" ( https://www.techpowerup.com/256842/intel-internal-memo-revea... ). Sounds about righ…
Amazon was there, but not in person: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/coly1a/