Quote Originally Posted by Apatheist View Post
Still on having a hard time choosing which CPU. I would have thought someone else here would have picked up a Threadripper by now to give some hard numbers.
<anecdote>I think some of us are very leery of AMD processors just from a general compatibility standpoint. Too many experiences with certain hardware items (chipset, memory, GPUs, NVMe drives) not working properly with them. I've had similar issues with their GPUs, too, though I haven't had one since the introduction of the 290 family, so I wouldn't take my position as Gospel.

On a related note, there seem to be a fair number of complaints with various apps (e.g. some Adobe products like Premier) that require a manual edit of some special "flag"[?] file to trigger better usage of the threadripper's cores, whereas the same app on an Intel just works. This may be a failure on the part of that app developer, though it does fall into the bucket of "may be tricky to get the most out of it if you're not tech savvy." My marketing folks here at work have a hard enough time getting a freaking MAC to work properly with Adobe products or VMware/Virtualbox VMs. Getting them to use a PC with the threadrippers would be a net productivity loss to all involved.

Again, just my 2 copper as a third-party observer.