Re:The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up...
by wmf on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:29PM
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Pre-ordering a product that hasn't been reviewed and benchmarked means you could get something much worse than you expect. For example, there may be apps that can't take advantage of 32 cores so you could spend $1,800 to get no benefit.
Re:The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up...
by some_account on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:58AM
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Not to mention that with so many cores, if they want to read and write to disk, the disk is going to be a huge bottleneck.
Re:The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up...
by llampx on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:37AM
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Right, they could just pay the same money to get a 10-core processor from Intel.
Re:The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up...
by stuckinarut on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:26PM
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you get bonuses and you get to annoy gamers.
that's 1 good reason to preorder, plus some bonuses that tend to be lame.
Re:The AMD Threadripper 2 Teaser: Pre-Orders Start Today, Up...
by AboutTheWhisles on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:10PM
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Are you implying you make poor financial decisions because you feel that it annoys other people?
Pre-orders don't make sense in the case of downloadable games, where there is no scarcity.