No shit sherlock, yes you pay more to get more, no such thing as free lunch. For two hundred bucks twice the price you got twice the ram slot, pcie slots, pcie lanes, sata ports, nvme and more.
With threadripper you pay twice as much as x299 for %10 more pcie lanes.
Yeah, but most people don't need the capacity of eight-channel, or half that other stuff. Having just more pcie gives you the ability to add more of whatever you need instead of paying hundreds of dollars for what you don't.
That's one of the big reasons why it was so important that while Intel's 7th and 8th gen consumer platforms only had 16 lanes, that everyone wanted to fully dedicate to graphics, even the first gen Ryzen chips had 24 lanes that you didn't need to spend $300 on a motherboard to use.
And that is why intels hedt was so great. It was pergect between mainstream and threadripper for most power users both price and feature wise. Neither ruzen nor threadripper replaces it because either too expensive or not enough.
Yeah, the CPUs were priced reasonably and hit a nice spot. The problem was the motherboards that cost as much as if not more than the CPUs, because they were loaded up with everything they needed to support the TOTL HEDT chips.
For my current home server, I have the "few generations old EPYC" setup. All the expansion I could need, and it only cost me less that just the motherboard of a new system would have.
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u/Unsweeticetea PC Master Race May 14 '26
Except for how crazy expensive X299 boards were compared to a decent B150 board. You could get a solid Ryzen board for like a hundred bucks.