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we're going to be talking about Andy's phenom CPU where am i right why is my shirt black hey hey hey whoa Oh what where am I now Paul like I cut my own media group cool Oh check this out I've ride one of these sick this must be my my office Wow look at this thing it's this this is CPU Wow look at the size of it rad ripper - is it could it be the future no no it's not the future it's today it's the AMD risin thread ripper - 29.92 WX and it is right now and our video about it is brought to you by NCI I fix it I fix its new Mahe driver kit includes their 1/4 inch aluminum screwdriver handle with a magnetic bit socket knurled grip and swivel top with 48 driver bits check it out at the link below Soyoung - there came from a world where the Intel core2 and AMD phenom x4 series of quad-core processors had the highest core counts among consumer products but in the 10 years since then the situation has changed a lot with AMD launching an industry shaking 16 core thread Ripper processor last year and then following it up today with the debut of the 2990 WX a 32 core 64 thread successor now they've created a ton of excitement amongst both consumers and professionals and they have sown a lot of discord with their competition over at Intel who have reacted to the disruption with their own high-end desktop chips based on the same DNA as their Xeon server lineup and then this weird like 28 core demo thing that they were doing at Computex this year and then shortly afterward tried to hide anyway hypetrain aside though one thing that we know about thread Ripper - before we even start testing it is that this is not a gaming centric CPU I mean even ignoring the 1300 and 1800 dollar price tags when we dig even a little bit further into the specs we find that the WX series so these are the two new high-end ones doesn't turbo up as fast as its ex brethren the direct Zen + replacements for last year's thread ripper 1 of course with that said we're still gonna run some gaming benchmarks anyway so normally we actually breeze by our test benches but this time there are a couple of important notes so AMD has created a really solid upgrade path for their X 399 customers by allowing existing boards like this Z extreme from a soos to run the new chips with nothing but a BIOS update but that said a soos did have some concerns about overclocking and up to 250 watt chip on boards that weren't necessarily designed for that so they equipped us with their rog zenith extreme cooling kit you shouldn't need this kind of thing for stock operation or if you have excellent airflow over your socket area already but if you're overclocking we would strongly recommend it all right the first big surprise in our gaming testing was discovering that thread ripper 1 is actually faster in some cases in spite of thread ripper two's higher clock speeds even after multiple runs these results persisted which might seem like some kind of a mistake but as it turns out the less sophisticated first-generation precision boost so that's AMD's dynamic clock speed optimization engine kept the core clocks higher more often with precision boost to more aggressively utilizing its intermediate clocks instead of being either full out or clock down so we actually ended up losing some raw speed but what we're getting back in return is more consistency another thing that impacted gaming is you ma versus Numa memory access modes now it's quite a bit more complicated but in layman's terms you ma is typically better for multi-threaded workloads thanks to its more consistent memory bandwidth while Numa can come out ahead sometimes thanks to a small latency advantage in lighter ones it should be noted that only the x-series allows you to decide which mode you prefer WX only runs in nuuma mode this was to retain intergenerational compatibility and I would say that there are probably some creator by day gamer by night folks out there who are going to be pretty pleased with the upgrade path that AMD has provided here I mean the 2990 WX isn't far and away the fastest CPU in every test that we ran blender which leverages Intel's avx-512 extensions is a notable exception and single-threaded tests are obviously not as strong suit but this this is one powerful piece of silicon even Intel's marginally more expensive 79 80 XE is no match when thread refer to WX gets to stretch its legs now on the subject of stretching them let's uh try some overclocking shall we now you can still overclock thread refer to manually but in theory anyway AMD's precision boost overdrive allows the user to simply set a higher power budget and then watch while precision boost to and xfr so that's extended frequency range to do all the heavy lifting only some of our workloads actually improved in performance while others straight-up regrets we think this has to do with some kind of weird thermal limit as indicated by the identical 68 degree TDI reading at both stock and overclock speeds in spite of our beefy cooler but that may require further investigation let us know if you'd like to see a dedicated thread Ripper to overclocking video for now who's gonna grab this grab this baby here's what we can say 32 cores in a consumer or a prosumer or workstation chip whatever you want to classify it as sounds amazing it is exactly the headline that AMD needs as a company right now to gain valuable what's called mind share where normal consumers are more likely to run out and buy normal Ryze and chips because the world record holders and the influential content creators that they admire are using AMD in the real world though the potential market for a product like this is pretty limited now the 2990 WX is the high-end workstation king but you need workloads like heavy virtualization or 3d rendering or gas exploration that take advantage of it otherwise honestly speaking you'd be better off spending half as much on a twenty nine 50x the 16 core drop-in replacement for the older 16 core but now with Zen plus or looking at Intel's lineup if avx-512 support or single-threaded performance are also important to you but maybe at the end of the day it doesn't matter who it's for maybe this was just about building an amazing piece of technology and then patiently waiting for the use cases to show up because I mean if there's anything that the history of computing has shown us it's that if you breed a faster horse someone somewhere is gonna build a more challenging course it's making a building something mass drop has gone from just being a place where you buy stuff to a place where you buy exclusive amazing collaborative products and the mass drop X - an 8350 headphones use new dynamic drivers different from what was used in the Aichi 300 resulting in a more neutral sound signature they feature a comfortable headband the lure ear pads and a detachable cable and they ship within two to three days check them out today at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys if 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