Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by dvdbloc on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:12AM
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I wish I could see a statistic on the number of people that would have bought Win 10 Home to run on their 64 core machine if only it had support for 64 cores!
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Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by tinco on Thursday February 13, 2020 @02:51AM
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It's going to happen soon. AmD's high end consumer model is already very close to that number. When these become commonplace, say in 8 years, someone might find something fun or productive to do with 64 cores, and it's gonna suck if your OS is the bottleneck.
Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by rubber_duck on Thursday February 13, 2020 @06:40AM
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> When these become commonplace, say in 8 years
Someone is going to run an OS from 2020 on a brand new machine in an age where 64 threads is common place ?
These things get segmented according to market - home is tailored to suit commonplace.
Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by AlfeG on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:20AM
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You mean all those people still running Windows 7 in 2020?
Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by rubber_duck on Thursday February 13, 2020 @08:47AM
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On modern computers ?
Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by Yizahi on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:48AM
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By the time it happens MS will support it in Home edition. I remember that Win2000 for example supported something like 2 or 4 CPUs in standard edition and you had to buy server editions or even datacenter edition for more.
Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review
by Dylan16807 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:06AM
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Probably. Once upon a time I hit the ram limit for Windows 7 Home of 16GB.
Then 8 jumped to 128GB.