Not Much Longer Until the Extra Life Stream

The Extra Life stream is approaching pretty quick now, and I really hope I am not in over my head on this. Might be, but only time will tell. I do have most of the preparation work done (OBS scene created, games installed, etc.) but there is still some testing I want to do, and some hard drive clearing. Not sure if it is a good idea or not, but I am planning on actually keeping a local copy of the recording so I can edit it down for the specific games. I'll need to clear off the hard drive I normally record to first, and I also need to do some recordings before Saturday too (I want some fresh, short ones I can try to play while I take a brief break and the like).
On top of that though, I've got another two projects, and one I will hopefully be able to finish after I post this. Busy, busy week, but then I know of some people who it has been even busier for.
Wish me luck on Saturday! (I will be streaming from The Body on Games Channel since I will be capturing heart rate and gaze. The donation link is already on the page if you follow the link.)

Did Not See It Coming

So yesterday, for my weekly Overclockers Club stream I played the Fortnite Battle Royale game mode. I played a little prior to the actual stream, to make sure I understand the game in practice, and to make sure I could capture it. The time of the stream came and I played some matches, not doing as well as I may have liked, but I am not a PVP FPS gamer, so what could I reasonably expect? I do know I was not ever, as in never expecting to actually win a match, but that is how I got to end the stream! There were 95 players and I killed three, including the last person other than myself. Since I was streaming at the time, that also means I have a recording of the entire match!
I guess in PVP, you can never really know what is going to happen. (I am seriously thinking I will never play the game, or perhaps just the mode again. Can't top it, so why try?)

Fun Times

It is a fun time to be both a Cleveland Indians fan and Green Bay Packers fan. Both teams now have amazed with significant come from behind victories and such games are always a pleasure to watch. Well, not if you stress over them a lot, but thankfully, I am not like that. I'd be a wreck if I were.
Keep up the good work! Just maybe take it up a notch.

Finally Upgraded!

The final parts arrived and now I am finally rocking a new build featuring an AMD 1950X CPU, so I have 16 cores/32 threads running at 4 GHz. It is combined with 32 GB of DDR4 3200 MHz CL14 RAM and is running so nicely. Video processing is much faster and the games I've played thus far have also improved nicely. It is that video processing I wanted so much though (why I went for the Ryzen Threadripper over just a Ryzen 7) and it is really awesome to have a system capable of over 2x encoding speed at x264 Medium, compared to about 0.1x before. I am very much looking forward to putting it to some serious work soon, but right now, I have a few other things to take care of first (like this post).

Comment on Threadripper

Just days ago a video was put out showing that the four dies in an AMD Threadripper CPU are in fact all Zeppelin dies, but two are disabled (very possibly defective dies). Since then I have seen a number of people commenting on how they wonder if this means we could see a 32-core Threadripper in the future, by just having these two dies be active. Well, from what I understand of the Zeppelin die and the Infinity Fabric that ties them together in both Threadripper and Epyc, this cannot happen and will not happen.
As we know from the single-die Ryzen processors, the Zeppelin dies are complete onto themselves, critically with their own memory controllers. The controllers are designed for dual channel, but by combining them with Infinity Fabric we can get quad-channel (Threadripper) and eight-channel (Epyc) memory support. This is also why you would not see a Threadripper with more than two dies (or less then two dies) active because the platform has no support for six-channel or eight-channel memory. Sure, in theory Infinity Fabric could allow another die's memory controller to be used, resulting in higher latency for both dies involved. It would require an entirely different platform that will provide access to RAM for these extra dies to be usable, and I cannot imagine AMD would want to introduce a fourth desktop platform. Currently we have Ryzen 3/5/7, single-die platform, Threadripper, two-die platform, and Epyc, four-die platform. Crossing products between these makes no sense and adding another platform to that already healthy mix is also nonsensical.
So, chances are the only way to see an even higher core count Threadripper is to also see a higher core count die (which means a higher core count Core Complex/CCX). That will certainly come, but I would think it would not be until Zen2 and the 7 nm shift. At least, that is my reasoning on it.