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**Yousuf Khan[_2_]** · June 22nd 17, 03:22 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On 18/05/2017 5:49 AM, wrote:
Looks like Ryzen has got Intel's complacent bowels unblocked.
They are bringing out an "i9" with 12 cores.
But AMD will be competing with "Threadripper" a 16-core beast.
Unfortunately, it seems that will use the 4000-pins server socket.
So I can't see it being cheap.

Well, since your original posting, Intel has upped the ante to 18 cores
and 36 threads, just to pip AMD's 16 cores/32 thread monster.

However, AMD Threadripper seems to bring something truly useful (to some
people, anyways) beyond just more cores, it's also bringing 64 PCIe
lanes to the motherboard. That means you can put upto 4 full-16-lane
GPU's into this system, or upto 8 half-8-lane GPUs! Intel is petering
out at only 44-lanes. What is 44-lanes useful for anyways? 3
full-16-lane GPU's actually require 48 lanes, so they can't even get a
3rd full-lane in there, instead they have 2 full-16-lane, and one
factional-12-lane slot. Is there even an x12 slot? There are x16 and x8
slots, but no x12 slots.

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