I’m forced to consider a new workstation (the old Sandy Bridge one’s wheezing to its death anytime now), although I’d rather waited for Zen 2 Threadrippers. No games, just a bit of rendering and a lot of x265.
So either I get something cheap until the end of next year (1800x or so), or I get most of the stuff now, plop in a cheap 1900x or 1920x and upgrade next year.
So my first question - please polish your finest crystal ball - is the latter really an option? From the rumors sofar (AdorageTV mainly, but also others) the next gen might support 8 channel memory, will have a completely new design etc. So a mainboard upgrade would possibly be necessary. In which case I’d have to sell a virtually worthless x399 with a low end TR CPU - sounds like a lot of money lost, I’m from team blue until now, and in your experience and best guestimate, will the Zen 2 threadrippers work on x399 without being crippled? How does AMD do about keeping promises?
Secondly, I’m rather thrown back to really early years, when ISA cards would not work in all IBM PC compatibles. I mean, what’s with AMD Zen and memory compatibility? I want a 64GB kit in 4 modules and from the QVL of the Fatality, Taichi and Prime X it sounds like I’m asking for memory made of pure gold. None of the more affordable 3000-3200 kits are listed (I’m perfectly fine with CL16), and the very few that are listed are the ones that cost the absolute most. If they’re available at all here in the EU. Never had such issues with my Intel builds.
I scoured the QVLs and the manufacturers’ configurators for days (Corsair especially seems to “love” AMD), and combining this information with what is actually available on the market here, I’m left with maybe 10 kits (excluding the color variations). Everyone seems to just go with the most expensive kit, but I’d rather not feed the colluding trolls. Sorry about the rant but my head hurts after this frustrating experience.
So these are the ones that remain on my list:
Gskill F4-2400CL16Q-64GFT - Fortis 2400 cl16
Gskill F4-2400CL15Q-64GFT - Fortis 2400 cl15
Gskill F4-2400CL16Q-64GFX - Flare X 2400 cl16
Gskill F4-2400CL15Q-64GFX - Flare X 2400 cl15
(note: the faster yet affordable TridentZ kits were only listed as max 2 modules, not 4)
HyperX HX430C15PB3K4/64 - Predator 2933 cl15
HyperX HX426C16FBK4/64 - Predator 2666 cl16
HyperX HX426C13PB3/16 - Predator 2666 cl13
Yes, I know the last one is a single module, but the Taichi QVL says it’s capable of running in 4 slots.
Does anyone here have experience with these and can tell me if they run well, and preferably can be OC’d to 2933 at least?
Oh, and when Threadripper came out last year, the Ballistix Sport LT 2666 kits were listed as compatible with the Fatality, now they’re nowhere to be found on the QVL. So AGESA updates actually reduce the memory support?? These were my choice then, for when I’d planned to update, as these supposedly OC’d easily to 3000…
Anyway, thanks for reading if you made it this far I hope some of you can give me a hand here (with information, I got the aspirins covered myself)