AMD Ryzen 9 3950X $1199 + Delivery (Free Pickup) @ MWave

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    Scrobo on 27/05/2020 - 14:02

    I do film restoration, the uptick from the 3900X makes a big difference for the software we use. This rig will be the baby brother to the 32 core threadripper machines.

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  ruinwmd on 25/05/2020 - 15:38

  +2

  Really is a monster CPU. Got the bundle deal from PCCG with this CPU, gigabyte aorus ultra motherboard, and 16 gigs of 3600mhz ram for $2049 ($1999 now..)

  I ditched the ram and added a 64gb of 3200mhz ram. Android ROM compilation times went from 2.5 to 3hrs on my ryzen 2600x down to 40ish minutes!

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    Viospeed on 25/05/2020 - 15:43

    That's a pretty kick ass improvement!

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  Viospeed on 25/05/2020 - 15:42

  +2

  Looks like PCCG are price matching too:

  https://www.pccasegear.com/products/48563/amd-ryzen-9-3950x-…

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    scuderiarmani on 25/05/2020 - 15:44

    *also trying to clear soon to be outdated models that will be very likely hard to sell.

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      Osiris on 25/05/2020 - 15:58

      +2

      That's great they've matched will update OP, but amuses me they are still trying to sell 3600X for $400+

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  mohaymens on 25/05/2020 - 15:51

  What are the chances that Price of this CPU will go down even further once RYZEN 9 4000 series will release end of this year?

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    scud70 on 25/05/2020 - 15:54

    +2

    If they release cpu's in the same bracket i would put it at high chance :)

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      RichieVn on 25/05/2020 - 16:18

      thats a high chance im willing to take

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  gavincato on 25/05/2020 - 16:11

  +1

  Highly recommended. I built a 3950x system for my photo editing (I don't mind a bit of overkill) and it's an absolute monster.

  Dead stable, zero crashes. Great chip.

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    gromit on 25/05/2020 - 18:34

    lol overkill, that is like hunting an ant with a bazooka.

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      gavincato on 26/05/2020 - 10:35

      I shoot a lot of weddings a year, so it helps in peak times

      Not so much in the edit, but in the exporting

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        gromit on 26/05/2020 - 10:41

        -1

        It shouldn't make any difference for the exporting either. That is not a CPU intensive process, rather an IO intensive one. But honestly if you can afford it then more power to you, would love to have one of these in my work machine too but I can't justify the expense for me. tossing up whether to wait for Zen 3 or get a 3700x.

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          gavincato on 26/05/2020 - 13:46

          @gromit: It does. When you crunch 40-50gb of exported capture one / lightroom jpegs in jpeg mini, it uses all 16 cores at once. It is absurdly fast and was a huge bottleneck previously in my workflow.

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            gromit on 26/05/2020 - 14:47

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            @gavincato: unless something has changed with lightroom over the past few years you got drastically reduced benefits from going beyond 8 to 10 cores. whether that is an IO bottleneck or a lightroom design problem I am not sure but anything beyond 8 cores had very little additional benefit with often 16 core and 8 core CPU's having almost identical export performance. I guess the questio0n is what were you using before you jumped to the 16 core monster.

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            gromit on 26/05/2020 - 20:58

            @gavincato: I know it is probably not you negging me down, but it seems strange that negs on this site equate more to "I don't like what you are saying".

            Anyway for the neg person you could have just searched the internet to confirm what I was saying, their are heaps of benchmarks out there that have tested this and I previously researched it for my wife who also has to do very large amount of photo processing.

            one of many articles that shows export performance
            https://techgage.com/article/amd-threadripper-3960x-3970x-re…

            The 3950X is a fantastic CPU, but LR basically has fundamental problems with lots of cores, maybe it is simply not NUMA aware or something. anyway a 3950X is only marginally faster than a 3700X for exports and is slower than a 3900X (i.e. the 12 core version), though I have also seen some reviews that put it about equal or marginally ahead depending on all the other system components.

            or this
            https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic…

            but don't be disheartened by that, it is a beast of a CPU and I am envious of you having, you just aren't getting much improvement beyond some of the cheaper variants

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              gavincato on 27/05/2020 - 07:29

              @gromit: no it's not me. I don't use lightroom, it's garbage. I use capture one.

              The capture one export times were probably (guessing) 30-35% faster than my i7-6700k, but as mentioned the jpeg mini times are massively better, by a factor of 400-500%.

              There's also the other benefit that while capture one is exporting I can do other things while it runs in the background, i.e. you can't really tell that you are exporting as everything else is so snappy.

              Often I'll edit a wedding in C1, finish it. The export it and while it's exporting I open up another C1 window and start the next wedding. It's very productive.

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                gromit on 27/05/2020 - 08:26

                @gavincato: Sorry my bad, I thought you were using the LR export (which yes is garbage and doesn't scale well). Newer versions of Capture 1 make heavy use of the GPU even for exports. compared to an old 6700k (which by pure coincidence is also what I currently have) I would think the performance would be like night and day, going from 4 cores to 16 cores is nice jump. Even the single core performance is better on the 3950x.

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                  gavincato on 27/05/2020 - 09:13

                  @gromit: That's fine, most photographers do use LR - they like what they are familiar with :)

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  [Deactivated] on 25/05/2020 - 19:15

  Hmm not to bad, the price is coming down that's a good thing, August $1000 sweet spot, exceptional CPU/apu, just need to see what Ryzen 4000 offers, if 20 cores for the near same price then very hard to tell.

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  melon5 on 26/05/2020 - 15:26

  +1

  There is a $650 deal on the amazon au for the 3900x. It is almost half price of this.

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  Scrobo on 03/06/2020 - 12:06

  Now if only anyone had a decent X570 motherboard in stock

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