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		TacticalCoder on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Threadripper 7000 Storm Peak CPU Surfaces with 64 ... But then if 64 is not useful to you, why the 7900X instead of the 7700X and it's 8 cores? The 7700X is way less power hungry and boosts to nearly the same speed as the 7900X. Genuinely asking as I plan to replace my Ryzen 3700X with a 7700X.

jakuboboza on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

im on 3900x and i was planning to upgrade to 7900x i tend to run few VMs. But I'm not sure yet. Would be cool to get on DDR5 but it feels like this time it is just to have upgrade. So not sure.

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