what an interesting installation method

Looks like maybe on the thrid or fourth revision of that idea, it may be a good thing.

Right now it looks like there will be a lot of messed up motherboards.

Depends how cheaply they make them, AMD isn't Intel, I doubt they'll cut corners on a premium product like threadripper

This post was edited by DCSS on Aug 1 2017 10:55pm

Naw...I meant user error. There's plenty of folk who can't handle the simple sockets.

any1 who buys a 1k dollar cpu and doesnt even read the instruction deserves it

reading instructions doesnt mean it will prevent user error though

I mean... it looks like it only fits one way.

Tell that to my brother that put in a p4 90 degrees off center.
His logic was if it didn't fit he had to slam it in harder.

The most perplexing part of it all was that it actually booted for a whole 2 min before crapping out permanently.

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Aug 2 2017 07:20am

lol dont them all and people still have issues?

lol just read this and thought it was cool too


Many thought that Threadripper simply used 4 CPU cores from each die, a point that has been long disproven by AMD, while others thought that these were "failed" Ryzen CPU dies that simply remained inactive. This left many to assume that Threadripper was simply "failed EPYC" though, in reality, nothing can be further than the truth, as AMD has now explained.

It is true that AMD's Threadripper TR4/SP3r2 socket has the same layout as AMD's EPYC SP3 socket, using the same substrate design and having an identical external aesthetic. Beyond that things become very different, as EPYC uses four active CPU dies whereas Threadripper only has two, which are in a diagonal configuration to allow heat to more evenly dissipate on the CPU's IHS.


The question that many have been asking is what the purpose of the other two dies are, with the answer simply being structural. These extra dies prevent imbalance and allow for simple cooler mounting without any chance of damaging the CPU. These two extra dies are not active or even contain working transistors, they are blank and as such are not "wasted Ryzen CPU dies".


This post was edited by yupitsmeh on Aug 2 2017 08:42am

Ya well look at the other thread, someone slapped on an old incompatible cooler on their 6600k and wondered why his cpu was overheating and throttling.