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System Name | Sleepy Painter |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
Motherboard | Asus TuF Gaming X570-PLUS/WIFI |
Cooling | FSP Windale 6 - Passive |
Memory | 2x16GB F4-3600C16-16GVKC @ 16-19-21-36-58-1T |
Video Card(s) | MSI RX580 8GB |
Storage | 2x Samsung PM963 960GB nVME RAID0, Crucial BX500 1TB SATA, WD Blue 3D 2TB SATA |
Display(s) | Microboard 32" Curved 1080P 144hz VA w/ Freesync |
Case | NZXT Gamma Classic Black |
Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar D1 |
Power Supply | Rosewill 1KW on 240V@60hz |
Mouse | Logitech MX518 Legend |
Keyboard | Red Dragon K552 |
Software | Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC 1809 17763.1757 |
Planned, viable, completed AND intentionally unreleased, with GN's recent AMD lab tour finally exposing the truth on these hunches that we've always had. A 5950X3D with the full 192 MB L3 was planned, designed, completed and never shipped, obviously due to concerns about it being predatory to their own EPYC business. It was demoed in GN's video:
They simply opted not to sell them (lame excuse citing no gaming performance uplift over 5800X3D - yeah then, why release anything above the 5800X), and the same goes for the Zen 3 Threadripper 5990X "Chagall", replacement for the 3990X with 64 cores and all that. Their unwillingness to release the latter condemned the entire viability of the TRX40 platform which went belly up remarkably fast and now the company and everyone else pretend that it doesn't exist, with the cope that "the target market doesn't care and Zen 2 is enough for them" immediately slapped as the flex tape fix.
IMO:
They couldn't capitalize on those in the modern multimedia marketing landscape (like social media and reviewer-influencers). I hate it, but I find a lot of these things can be explained by anti-consumer marketing stratagem having been reliably-proven profitable. -and, usually later-evidenced through changes in presentations, or outright veiled admissions in investor documentation and marketing/investing press releases.
Basically, everyone at the table is min-maxing their characters, ruining the game.