What's the current equivalent of an LGA2011 from 2011? Are there still HEDTs parts out there?
Posted by Striking-Stuff50@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 4 comments
I found a used lga2011 with i7-3930k. It is beautiful!
I wonder if there are current components that match up that niche?
See pic here https://i.ibb.co/MPKJR4y/20241120-130928.jpg
GenZia@reddit
It might be "beautiful" at a superficial level, but the reality is anything but.
The so-called "HEDT" was a racket concocted by Intel to artificially limit the 'LEDT' platform to baby quad-cores. No one batted an eye because there was virtually zero competition and people accepted that elitist segregation of hardware as one of the many facts of life.
What were they gonna do? Buy Bulldozer?!
That was until Ryzen came out. HEDT's days were number the moment AMD unleashed the Ryzen 7 1700 (and later Ryzen 5 1600) into the wild and now, it's gone for the foreseeable future.
And dare I say, good riddance.
I remember how a lot of people who had just bought their fancy 7800Xs on X299s were shocked and angry at Intel when the rumors of hexa-core CPUs on LGA1151 a.k.a Coffee Lake started circulating.
How dare Intel offer hexa-cores to LGA1151 peasants!
Then came the i9-9900K, the ephemeral legend that was dethroned by Ryzen 7 3700X within months, and that was pretty much the final nail in HEDT coffin.
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Affectionate-Memory4@reddit
HEDT as it used to be is dead and buried. Now you can get things like a Sapphire Rapids Xeon-W platform from Intel, or a Threadripper non-Pro system from AMD.
Both are obscenely expensive and there is a sizable gap between them and the top of the normal desktop range, but, the normal desktop range has also risen quite a bit.
Depending on what you do, a 285K on a Z890 board (up to 192GB ram and up to 48 pcie lanes) or a 9950X(X3D is coming too) on an X870E board (192GB ram and up to 44 pcie lanes) can do a ton of work.
My workstation is an i9 14900K with tweaked power settings and 96GB of DDR5-6000. Multi-gpu is dead for my use cases, and a 7900XTX provides plenty of vram for what I do.
RedTuesdayMusic@reddit
Only Threadripper. Supposedly a new generation is in the works. Sadly Threadripper has been overpriced throughout its lifetime and it's better to just go with Epyc