GIGABYTE AMD B550 Motherboard Pricing Revealed

[Makaveli]

What, 48-core Xeon for the price of a 3800X? That configuration starts at about $7K from Dell, almost $8K from HP and there really isn't much on the ex-corporate market with 48 threads yet. That stuff is too new to be remotely worth looking at for the moment.
I believe you are trolling sir.

I am the person at work(s) responsible for buying and selling our workstations across 3 premises and whilst I do deal with Dell and HP for places that don't have onsite IT departments, our main office uses own-built machines because they're better than than pre-built workstations and certainly ahead of the used market.

Used, you can pick up a 2x12 core E5-2690 V3 workstation with 128GB RAM for around €2300 but that's not 48-core, that's a couple of twelve core processors from 2014 complete with 2014 IPC and 2.6GHz clockspeeds. $2300 is a lot of money compared to a 3800X which is the comparison you just made, but more importantly - if you're going to spend $800 on RAM, you should probably get a 3950X instead of a 3800X to make the most of it.

Our focus is on rendering which means that cores x clockspeed x IPC matters the most, and for two years we've been replacing Xeon farms with Threadripper farms, and now the 3950X has replaced threadripper. If money was no object we'd be installing racks full of 1P Rome servers (probably EPYC 7702P). Money is always important though, and 16C/32 running at 4GHz+ with a single massive 64GB L3 cache seems to get the best results for the money.

48-core Xeon that is based on the Sandybridge or Westmere cores that won't be a modern architecture for that price.

And then the line about tweaking for Stability out of the box on Ryzen is nonsense. Ryzen system are very stable and I know this because i've been one for the last 6 months and have not had single BSOD. The only tweaking to be done is with the ryzen Dram caluclator + PBO + Making sure you don't by cheap memory.

I'm glad someone posted that knows what they are talking about.

 

[Turmania]

Msi x570 tomahawk is a gold board and should be taken as reference board at 200.

 

[kanecvr]

How so ?

Gigabyte B450 Aorus Pro is perhaps the best B450 board out there..

Don't know about the Aorus Pro, but I got two Aorus B450M for me and my brother in law and they are great.

 

[wiak]

cheaper than X570 right? XD