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AMD's New Threadripper Chips Have a Hidden Fuse That Blows When Overclocking Is Enabled (www.extremetech.com)
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[–] picnic@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How come I bought first gen threadripper cpu for around $400 and mobo $400, but now their prices are like $2000 for cpu and $1000 for the mobo?

I'd like to get more pcie lanes than on 7950x.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Lack of competition, manufacturing consolidation, and inflation.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

When the Threadripper Pro came out, you could get a machine from Lenovo with 12-16 cores for around $1800 including some ram, ssd, and a gpu. I just checked and now they start at $2800 for a zen 3 TR Pro with 32/1TB/A2000. It doesn’t seem like there is a practical way to build one yourself affordably for Zen 4 or Intel for that matter. A Xeon 3435X and mobo is also around $2500 for 112 lanes.