The 9950 meets my needs. But if I needed more storage I/O or ram support yes I would go threadripper.
If I were building a workstation it would be threadripper with 512 gigs of ram. A pair of nvme boot drives in raid 1 and a set of four nvme 4tb storage drives most likely in a raid 5...
In the end when it comes right down to it I don't care about what node is used to make the part I want to buy. I care about the performance, and honestly durability and security of the product. In that order. Give me a high performing Zen desktop SKU with a lot of cores and great gaming and...
I'm not even that greedy. I just want 1% of 1% of 1% of their market valuation... at 4 trillion. That's just a measly 4 million. ;)
Heck They could easily afford the pay me 1 penny the first day and double the pay every day for a month. That's only 10,737,418.23!
Honestly I love my earfun air pro earbuds I have and find the ANC experience with them to be VERY good. Not Sony quiet connect whatever they are up to good, but but FAR more than 75% as good for 25% of the cost. And this is their headset. Supports gaming, ANC, and USB connectivity...
I would see if that motherboard supports a power off or pre boot bios update. If so i would start with that with the 3000 series cpu still installed. Only then swap to the 5000 series cpu then do your installs. Reason being your memory controllers and i/o are different between gens and...
Wow... complete takeover via a video game. That's nightmare material right there... and a knock on multiplayer network/internet connected solutions. Imagine if you could run a private server and only allow friends in... wouldn't that be so much better? ;)
Microsoft is done caring about making a billion all at once... they want RMR. Expect more live services investment from them with subscriptions tied to it.
These days it would be Nvidia cards for drivers.... or for hardware malfunctions, firmware updates that are bricking cards, cards leaking coolant... and so forth...
Amd had issues but their drivers have historically been fine wine.
Honestly I think price to benefit of making the high end GPU's and the price they would need to sell them at simply priced the consumer high end out in such a way that AMD didn't want to be THAT company. So they released the mid tier cards and did they very best they could. And it shows.
I mean 11 had the higher end DX12, and Direct storage but they propagated that down to 10 in short order too. I guess it just makes for a cleaner development to stick with one core.