Bofferbrauer2 said:
Finally at least some more lanes! How long were we limited now to 16-32 PCIe lanes (depending on the board)? It feels like an eternity, really. This is why I moan over the loss of the traditional HEDT platforms. Threadripper has grown way past HEDT nowadays: It's either not enough lanes or way too many lanes. Same with Memory channels: You either get 2 or you get 8 and soon 12, with nothing in between. And while HEDT was more expensive than normal desktop, Threadripper is another order of magnitude above it again. If AMD (and Intel for that matter) would create new HEDT that would basically be a halved server platform, so for instance a halved EPYC (48 instead of 96 cores, 64 instead of 128 PCIe lanes, 6 instead of 12 Memory channels, 280W TDP (like the 3000 series Threadripper) instead of 600W, I think most prosumer would be happy with such a platform. But instead AMD makes Threadripper pretty much just an 1P or Workstation EPYC, and Intel is just banging more and more cores on their CPUs without all the rest around it. |
I miss HEDT... And not because of PCIE Lanes... But having Quad-Channel DDR and 8-Ram slots allows for some extremely Ram rich computing at a good price...
Costs have increased, but I refuse to increase my hardware budget... A Ryzen 9950X is what I would have paid for a HEDT chip back in the day, so that's my purchasing limit.
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