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welcome back to harbor unboxed as i'm sure many of you are aware now AMD released their second generation thread ripper series earlier this month when they unleashed the 32 quart 2990 WX and the six core 2950 acts particularly liked the 29 50 x very nice cpu that one but anyway in two months they will be releasing the 12 and 24 core versions but before they do they've decided to slash prices of the first gen parts and the 1920 x in particular is a very affordable now at least for a high-end desktop part but before I get into it I just want to share a quick message from a new harbor unbox sponsor cable Maude cable mod makes premium sleeve power supply cables to spice up your PC build and a sure that you have the perfect mix of colors for our Aussie viewers there's currently a huge cable mod sale happening right now at PC case key where you can get stuff like these harbour unbox tile light blue mod mesh cables for just 89 dollars down from 149 dollars there are plenty of other deals to be had as well so check out the link in the video description ok so back to the non sponsored deal and I would just like to make it very very clear that AMD hasn't asked us or hinted in any way that we should do this content and definitely no money has exchanged hands we do not take money from AMD very much off the table that one I would have covered this earlier but I just didn't catch wind of it early enough pretty much was really held up with that RTX stuff so yeah forgive me anyway earlier this month AMD did quietly reduce the SE p which is short for suggested eerie taylor price and they reduced that down from the launch price of $800 us right down to $400 us so yeah I pretty shocked you can buy this 12 call 24 thread CPU for just $400 us and at those prices are now in effect so that's yeah half the original retail price just to be clear this is a new official suggested price from AMD so we should see retailers around the world dropping prices over the next few days if they haven't already local retailer PC Kowski which has those sexy looking cable mode slave cables on sale right now dropped their price on the 15th of august but with all the craziness around the nvidia geforce 20 series announcement I'm only covering the price drop now prior to July 21st the 1920 X cost one thousand and sixty dollars Aussie that price was dropped to $960 Aussie on August 13th and then a few days later to just $600 Aussie that's an incredible deal for Australian viewers be aware though it's not really clear if this sale will continue while stock remains or if AMD will revert back to previous pricing the information I have right now suggests the sale will run till the end of the month so for at least a few more days yet that said AMD might continue to offer retailers rebate so they can maintain the sale price at least until stock runs out anyway $400 us for a 12 core 24 thread high and desktop processor isn't incredible buy to help put this in a perspective you can expect to pay roughly the same amount for Intel's Core i7 700 X which is a 6 core processor so it has half as many cores on offer meanwhile Intel's 10 core 7900 X still costs $1000 u.s. so at least when compared to the Intel high-end desktop offerings the 1920 X is an insane bargain that said even at the new low price were still paying a decent premium over more mainstream parts such as the 2700 X granted the 1920 X only cost 20% more at the new price and packs 50% more cores but mother board prices do inflate the platform cost quite considerably for example the 2700 X with a quality B 450 motherboards such as the MSI tomahawk will set you back $430 u.s. meanwhile the 1920 X with the cheapest x3 no onboard available right now will cost you $700 us so a little over 60% more expensive factoring in memory doesn't really help too much as you still need a minimum of 4 sticks for the x3 9 iron platform but that can also be viewed as a bonus as well and I'll discuss that towards the end of the video once we've gone over all the performance numbers speaking of which let's jump runs the benchmarks to work at who this affordable 12 core processor is for all testing was conducted on the msi meg x3 99 creation using 32 gigabytes of stock g.skill flex ddr4 3200 memory that said the performance that you're about to see will be achievable on any and all x3 and I know motherboards and for the 1920 X we recommend a budget board from either MSI as rock or a soos ok let's jump into the results as I said I'm just gonna breeze through all the testing as you can see for rendering tasks you're looking at around a 40% performance uplift at the 1920 X over the 27 Rx and an incredible 90 percent boost over Intel's similarly priced 7800 X moving on this time we see when testing with blender a 35% performance boost from the 2700 X and an 80% improvement from the 7800 X then the last rendering test were going to look at is povery and here we see a massive 46% performance boost for the 1920 x over the 2,700 X and then a decimate of the 700 X by an incredible 78% margin so for those of you that do quite a bit of rendering it's pretty clear that the 1920 X is an extreme bargain still even for general use the 1920 X still gets at done and here it delivered the best result in the PC mark 10 modern office benchmark being the 700 X by a 20% margin for budding content creators the 1920 X is again a great value option at the new $400 u.s. price point for encoding work it was just 9% fast in the 2,700 X but it was 43% faster than the 70 an Rx even for heavy editing tasks the 1920 X does well here it was 19% fast in the 2,700 X and 27% faster than these 7800 X then when it comes to gaming the 1920 X is no slouch either beating both the 2,700 X and 700 X in the core heavy ashes of the singularity benchmark of course performance might be as amazing in all games but if this is a sign of future gaming than the 1920 X should be a very solid gamer for many years to come even under less optimal conditions like what we see here with Star Wars Battlefront 2 the 1920 X still does very well as it pushes well over 100 FPS at all times another example is F on 2017 again not earth-shattering performance when compared to the competition but still overall impressive stuff it has to be said and 144 Hertz gamers will certainly be satisfied here's another CPU demanding title with Assassin's Creed origins and we see the 1920 X does very well edging out the 700 X and 2,700 X by a slim margin another big advantage of the extra 99 platform and the quad-channel memory controller of the 1920 X is of course big memory bandwidth oh and of course big memory capacity another strength is power consumption with 1920 x you can get away with a quality 650 watt power supply let's say and still be able to pair it with a high-end graphics card okay so there's the quick performance refresh out of the way now it's time to analyze the deal kind of goes without saying but I'll say it anyway if you can't fully utilize a 12-course CPU and eight cores or perhaps less maybe even six cores will easily see you get by then this deal really isn't for you just get a 2700 X or perhaps even a 2600 X especially if you're just gaming however if you need as many cores as you can possibly afford and 700 ish US dollars is about all you have received your motherboard combo then you simply can't do better than this deal I suppose on average you could say that the 1920 X and Koro 970 900 X are comparable if your overclock the Intel CPU it might win out by a small margin that is assuming you have a constant supply of dry ice anyway it is a pointless comparison because the 7900 X plus a basic motherboard the cheapest x-29 board you can find that combo comes to about $1,250 us so that's almost 80% more so assuming your workload can utilize all 12 cores and you just see it finished as soon as possible then what the heck are you waiting for I'd be snappy up a 1920 X for $400 US or whatever it translates into your currency with an affordable x3 nine motherboard as soon as possible there's no point waiting six to eight weeks for the 29 20 X to land at $650 us that's the SRP and realistically it's only going to be a few percent better in terms of performance also worth noting while you are paying two to three times more for an x3 nine and I'm bored over annex 470 or B 450 board you do get considerably more motherboard for your money remember x3 ninety-nine bullet support huge amounts of ddr4 memory with the ATM slots you also get a staggering amount of PCI Express Lanes and loads of other features like more USB 3 ports then you can shake a stick at and that is going to do it for this one again thank you to cable mods for supporting this video or sponsoring this video again AMD didn't sponsor this video I hope that's been made clear and if you enjoyed this video then feel free to hit the like button subscribe for more content if you appreciate the work with your home box and perhaps consider supporting us 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