I'm in the US, but I would buy a 96 core at 50% off. Where did you find that? I saw people on eBay selling 7980X for like 3,500... But I'm a little sus about that. Sorry I haven't posted in a while, just had a new baby, and it's my first so it's a learning experience. But I got some really good updates on the 7980X. Pulling over a 39k on Corona bench and staying under 80c. I'll post results when I get home.
Oh duuude, congratulations!! That's quite the news! May the learning experience be a linear curve :)
US you say? Well Newegg has one listed for below 5k. Here is the link:
https://www.newegg.com/p/14U-00ZT-031U5
I'm looking at a chart that Supermicro provides and they've been discounted like this since basically the first week of this year. I have no idea why and even though these are clearly still expensive products they are also almost comically cheap at the same time lol.
I am beyond tempted myself. A single 96 core can replace and possibly even outperform two Zen 3 64 core Epycs at a much lower power consumption. Sheesh.
Thank you! It's been great but need sleep! So yesterday I though you was talking about the 7995WX 96 core, was reading it on my phone and like I said I need sleep, lol. The EPYC 9654 96 core seem not to be very good at all, they only pull a 31k on Corona Benchmark and that's with 2x AMD EPYC 9654 96 core CPU's. my 7980x at stock pulls a 34k. But from what I've seen I do think there is some issues with Corona and 2x CPU's.
I got the best Overclock so far by keeping everything stock and only changing the CPU core ratio to AI Overclock and setting a temp limit of 80C. This gave me a 39k in Corona Bench, of course I can use a higher max temp limit and get a better score also. But I think for constant rendering staying under 80c is really good, not sure how much more wear and tear on the CPU there might be if I run a max limit at 90C. With the next system I'm going to try a better cooling system and see where it gets me.
Before I kept getting a beeping or constant beep if I overclocked to much. I could not figure out what the issue was. I was thinking VRM overheating but on this motherboard they are suppose to be really good with good cooling. This had me scratching my head for a few day. Then I realized what it was...... It wasn't even the computer, lol... it was the APC Battery Backup system behind it. The overclock was pulling so much wattage that the APC UPS was alerting me with a beeping or constant beep. Face Palm!