<story><title>AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel&apos;s Core i9 by as much as $1,000</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3207747/components/amd-threadripper-prices-and-release-date.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redtuesday</author><text>Like I have written in the other thread already: add to that the ECC support of Threadripper [0], 20 more PCIe lanes and no raid key shenanigans (on Intels x299 you have to pay 100$ extra for RAID 1 and 300$ for RAID 5 support with their VROC feature [1]). Unless you really need AVX 512 and better single thread performance (and 2 more cores in case of the not available 18 core part), why would you buy Intels new offering? Because you can reuse the cooler since it&amp;#x27;s compatible with x99?&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;Amd&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6icdyo&amp;#x2F;amd_threadripper_supports_up_to_256gb_of_ram_942&amp;#x2F;dj5lhs7&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;Amd&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;6icdyo&amp;#x2F;amd_threadrippe...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;TWFzWRoVNnE?t=11m38s&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;TWFzWRoVNnE?t=11m38s&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>AMD Threadripper prices undercut Intel&apos;s Core i9 by as much as $1,000</title><url>http://www.pcworld.com/article/3207747/components/amd-threadripper-prices-and-release-date.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgtweak</author><text>The 12 core threadripper (1920) is comparable with the 10 core 7900X in temrs of milticore performance, while still $200 cheaper.  You can&amp;#x27;t compare only on the basis of core count as this review did.&lt;p&gt;More detailed review here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wccftech.com&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-performance-benchmarks-leak&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;wccftech.com&amp;#x2F;amd-ryzen-threadripper-1950x-cpu-perform...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>