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A comment on AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling. Parent comment

Re:AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Clic... by phamilton on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:09PM (#13735623)
Grad students :). More specifically, a professor with a research grant can afford to fund N grad students where N is inversely proportional to equipment cost.

The complaint is not about adding the capability to all chips. It's about smoothing out the step function between consumer machines and professional workstations.

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Re:AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Clic... by dpark on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:33PM (#13735695)
The steps from consumer to professional seem pretty smooth. The higher end consumer machines cost more than the lower and professional machines. You can buy SkyLake Xeon processors from Newegg for as low as a couple hundred dollars.
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