AMD Threadripper 3990X Review: Absolute Madness!

[TechSpot Weekly Newsletter] Latest in tech February 7 TechSpot Review [AMD Threadripper 3990X Review: Absolute Madness!]( Today we're looking at the most expensive desktop CPU to ever exist, and shockingly it's not from Intel. The Threadripper 3990X is [a 64-core, 128-thread Zen 2-based processor]( that AMD fully acknowledges is a special purpose processor that combines both high frequency and high core counts into a single package. Today we're looking at the most expensive desktop CPU to ever exist, and shockingly it's not from Intel. The Threadripper 3990X is [a 64-core, 128-thread Zen 2-based processor]( that AMD fully acknowledges is a special purpose processor that combines both high frequency and high core counts into a single package. 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