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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.
Lack of competition, manufacturing consolidation, and inflation.
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.
I picture the aurhor of this fearmongering title evil laughing while writing it.
You’ve said that twice on two separate posts now.
Either way, there is nothing fear mongering about this title, the article even confirms the title directly from AMD themselves.
