After a long long time of more than eight years my old machine started showing hardware problems: first the power supply failed and had to be replaced. Next the CMOS battery died. It became clear that finally a replacement would be in order. When the first reports about AMDs Ryzen family came out and in particular with the Threadripper tests, I became interested. In the end, I waited until the Threadripper 2950X was available before ordering a custom-built machine from a local vendor. Here is the basic hardware setup:
- CPU: Threadripper 2950X (32 cores)
- Mainboard: MSI 399X Carbon
- Memory: 32 GB
- GPU: Nvidia 1060
- SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVM 1TB