Quote Originally Posted by Kayley View Post
So with the intel (5960x) chip you could semi-abuse the pagefile to make up for lack of Memory. For example I could run 40 accounts with no memory related issues by having a dedicated SSD host a large pagefile (160gb+) while only having 32GB of RAM installed. CPU worked well with windows to handle it all.

I tried to do the same with the 2950x and 2990wx and the performance was terrible. The whole system would 'micro-freeze' and stutter. CPU was pegged at 100% when using a larger pagefile. With the intel cpu I could farm at 15-20fps on all the slaves quite happily. The AMD line wouldn't give me anything over 3fps when the pagefile was in use (heavily). I bumped it up to 64gb of Memory and a smaller pagefile.. same issue. I went to 128GB and everything THEN ran amazingly.

Intel would run on standard Windows power profiles. AMD requires you to install a 'dedicated amd' power plan which gives the cpu controllers access to do its thing. Works better as a result and you have a few more things to play with.

OVERCLOCKING!
So I happily spent 6 hours overclocking (each) the 2950x and 2990wx in the Bios. Quite finicky and you need to be precise for the cpu to shine. For example you can get it to post at 4.5ghz yet it's performance can be well under stock if you don't dial in the power right. My best cinebench (only 2950x) was 3850; which took 6 hours to hit. I decided to set everything back to stock and use the windows program 'Ryzen Master'. Oh my god what a treat. You enter how many watts you are happy to have over the cpu, how many amps it can draw... SO NICE. I put down 250w for cpu, leave the amperage (spelling?) default.. it uses the CPU temps.. press one button and bam, done. So in 6 hours my best cinebench was 3850, 2 minutes with the Ryzen Master tool and I hit 3830. Its beautiful.
Very interesting data, there. Thanks for sharing.