Gaming performance is basically the same as the rest of their Ryzen line of CPUs, but holy moly. This CPU is intense and that motherboard, the ASUS Zenith Extreme, is just beautiful. I really want to build a new computer around this now. ._.
Discuss! Anyone have plans for Threadripper? Remember, for purely gaming, Intel is still mainly ahead, however for basically everything else, especially multithreaded programs: AMD is now squarely in 1st place, especially given the $1,000 price versus Intel's higher prices on their 10+ core CPUs.
As TTL mentions, water-cooling is indeed, basically, a NEEDED scenario with Threadripper. AIOs are good enough, but if you really want to overclock, you're better off with dedicated water-cooling.