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I mean, he wasn't about to splash for an AMD9080ADC...

Wonder why not 64 core Threadripper 3990x?

My guess: Amdahl's Law vs the noise made by the cooler.

Yes, he says in the video that one of the goals was to put together a system that was as quiet as possible.

They are same TDP

One possibility would be the 3990X's lower base clock of 2.9GHz vs. the 3.7GHz of the 3970X.

I'd love to have one of these in my gaming rig, but even with my 1700 I rarely have cpu bottlenecks.

Most games aren't that multi-threaded.

So it would actually end up being a lot slower than a 10900k.