Reviewers Liked
- Offers more performance, uses less power and runs cooler than the Core i9-7900X
- While liquid cooling is a must, Theadripper is easier to tame than Skylake-X
- Brings competition back to HEDT
- Amazing multi-core performance
- Plenty of PCIe lanes
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Middling single-core performance
- Overclocking remains limited
- Game mode and Creator mode confusion
- Power draw is very high, albeit sometimes justifiable on a performance per Watt metric