AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX

I bought this CPU after a budget driven evaluation of the non pro version. My performance findings was that the non pro version did not support enough PCIE lanes. The same also applies to the motherboard I was using. My performance target is for an Adobe Photographers Suite. I had installed a 40 gigabyte per second NIC in both the NAS and the motherboard. I found the NIC operating at only 20 gigabytes, not 40 (not enough PCIE lanes in the non pro system). With the right hardware in place this has excellent performance. I would recommend this product.

At full load, with an RTX4090 GPU in the same case, there are no thermal solutions on the market that will adequately cool this CPU. You will have to throttle it to keep it within safe thermal limits, so the CPU frequency metrics are actually just dishonest marketing. Sure, you CAN reach the max frequencies, but only for about 30 seconds until the CPU overheats and thermal throttling kicks in. I've tried 3 different coolers on AMD's official list of supported coolers, and none of them are capable of actually cooling this CPU at full load. Very disappointed, and wish that I had other options, but unfortunately my motherboard requires AMD TR Pro.

Amazing performance!

Can't get the cpu as another reviewer mentioned to stop throttling under heavy load.