Question 1

How do you cool this thing?

Accepted Answer

There is a startup company called Nuclear Lightning that partnered with another company called QuantaCool that produce exotic cooling solutions for hot-running chips and servers. They also overclock many of the Intel i9 chips to the top overclocks ever seen.

Question 2

Can this run minecraft?

Accepted Answer

This is not a gaming cpu and is not optimized for gaming, it's designed for advanced home workstations and companies working on rendering/development/ai uses and research and in servers.  But yes, you can use it to play games like any other CPU.

You want high clock speed and lower core count for gaming as it's easier to cool less dense cores and they can run faster per core.  Games typically won't use more than 8 cores at a time so the other 56 core are completely useless for most games.  The best CPU for games is probably the intel i 9900 k which will run you "only" around $500.

Question 3

How many cores and threads does the AMD EPYC 7742 processor have?

Accepted Answer

The AMD EPYC 7742 processor has 64 cores and 128 threads.

Question 4

What is the maximum boost core frequency of the AMD EPYC 7742 processor?

Accepted Answer

The maximum boost core frequency of the AMD EPYC 7742 processor is 3.4 GHz.

Question 5

what actually is this thing and what is its intended use?

Accepted Answer

This is meant as a server chip and should be used in professional work. This is not supposed to used for gaming. Some of its uses are graphical designing, web development, etc.

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