building my first pc in 5 years. going with Threadripper 1950X unless you save me

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I've wanted to build a new pc for about 4 months but I've been trying to wait for the right time. I am about to build a1950X system unless you guys save me so your feedback is greatly appreciated. I am not going to overclock and everything i read about 1950X was slanted that way. Is it still better than I9-7900X if I'm not going to over clock either? It seems like is the same for single tasks, better for multiple tasks, and has way more pci lanes.

From everything I've read intel hasn't released a new u.2 drive in ages and samsung's 960 pro m.2 is the fastest boot drive in the world now so I'm going with that.

Should I wait a few more months or is it a good time?
 
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Shektron your giving out false information. He can't combine 2 NVMe for RAID 0 to boot. He can use his single 960 pro w.windows as that's what I'm doing.

Get threadripper... Mind blown!
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Firstly, which processor is better depends on what you use it for. For pure gaming(for which I wouldn't recommend Threadripper anyway), the i9 would be a little bit faster. For multitasking or anything else that uses multiple cores, Threadripper would be faster. Also, another thing to consider is that the Threadripper line-up apparently does not support M.2 drives as boot drives - you'll need to get some other storage for boot media, and can only use M.2 for storing apps, music, movies, etc, not for Windows.
 
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Shektron your giving out false information. He can't combine 2 NVMe for RAID 0 to boot. He can use his single 960 pro w.windows as that's what I'm doing.

Get threadripper... Mind blown!
 
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Did you get 1950X ? what motherboard did you get?
 
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They're all for gaming don't be fooled by terms such as streaming or rendering , when you're in a game there's a render resolution besides the menu's resolution that's what they mean by rendering. although TR and i9 are for rich kids from hong kong :( and singapore
 
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No it doesn't mean that. Rendering and streaming are two tasks beside gaming that only high-end machines can do well. Rendering means rendering videos in video editing software like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere Pro. These programs save edited videos in a different format, and to be universally compatible, these files have to be changed into a different format like mp4, to be uploaded or shared around. That's what rendering means. While graphics cards also 'render' games, that's a different type of rendering, where the output depends upon input from mouse, keyboard, etc. Those renders are usually not CPU-intensive, while rendering videos is almost completely CPU-intensive, except for a few effects that put a load on the GPU instead.

Streaming while gaming is, again, CPU-intensive, unlike game rendering. It requires the output to the monitor to be rendered simultaneously and be uploaded to streaming services like Twitch or Youtube.

Buying a Threadripper for gaming is not recommended solely because the CPUs aren't built for it - they are meant for workstation purposes. They will play games, no doubt, but the performance difference between Threadripper 1950X and a Ryzen 7 1700 would be non-existent. Hence, for gaming only, a Ryzen 7 makes more sense than Threadripper, simply because Threadripper is a professional/workstation CPU, rather than a gaming CPU.
 
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