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Bump for Summer Update and transition to Live Guide format.

x86 is dead again? ****. That's like the 30th time already. Stupid zombies.

Fool....money....... Sold! Parted....

I guess this will go in the next round of build guide. Finally no complaints about SSD size!

Even if they did hear from any of those three they would not care.

Heart drugs found in office and dies from a fall. So, heart attack and collapsed. It is a common death type. Unfortunate though.

I am Batman!

If we went through shady **** from every vendor we would be left roughly....... negative 3 vendors.

Price/performance. A warranty is great but it is one of those things that is a catch 22. Awesome to have that you paid for, but you really shouldn't need to use if the QC is there so it is an extra expense.

The 10980XE isn't reliably in stock, numbers were bouncing as high as $2999, and it is basically the same proc as the 9980XE. For the 10th Gen's there still aren't any that play dual role as noted. You can go lower down the stack but if you do anything professional then they are a worse choice...

I'm aroused.

Ha, no!

The 3950X made it into the enthusiast system https://www.thefpsreview.com/2020/03/12/amd-enthusiast-gaming-pc-build-guide-spring-2020-edition/

That would be why just about every page indicated gaming and productivity. What would a high-end system look like that you could do both with reasonably well? Hence the use of a Threadripper on the AMD side of things.