I mostly use my computer for video editing and this thing truly is a beast. Sony Vegas and Premiere render noticeably faster and I find myself being able to multitask more when i'm exporting projects. Not to mention streaming games like Squad, Counter-Strike, and PUBG. It comes in a badass case and just screams quality. I might even pick another one up for a Hackintosh build for Final Cut Pro.

This cranks out the work units! 32 threads! As far as I'm concerned... If it wasn't for AMD stepping up to the plate, Intel would still be happily selling 4 cores and business as usual... Screw, that! I'm rewarding AMD for this, been waiting a LONG time for a consumer CPU to have 16 cores! I doubt you'll be able to buy anything remotely close to a TR 16 core CPU from Intel for this cheap..

Fast, stable. Upgraded with Gigabyte Designare mobo and Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 cooler, Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4, and EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Not one glitch (knock on wood) in three weeks: powered up first time and let the Ripper rip. A lot of horsepower for the money.

I have been using this CPU close to two months now and I am extremely impressed with it.
Resource utilization is amazing, I don't even need to use game mode on the CPU because resource managment intelligently decided between using one CPU dye or the Other.
in most cases for gaming 16 threads will be reserved entierly for gaming and the other 16 will be reserved entirely for background tasks. You likely wont see a game use all 32 thread for a couple years but something like assassins creed unity might do it at this moment.
It uses all 32 threads for encoding/compressing/decompressing so your projects are lightning fast.
I should note that I am using MSI's X399 pro carbon motherboard with this processor and that motherboard seems to be the best combo with this motherboard if you want stability. (I also have a review on that product with critical information in getting your system working properly, be sure to check it out)
Noctua is the only cooler I would recommend with this processor. 99% of all liquid coolers and competing air coolers are relatively insufficient for this processor.
warning: Do not get ram faster than 2666Mhz for this processor!

I'll try to keep this short - IM A GAMER (along with other things) AND THE PERFORMANCE IS GREAT! BF4/BF1/Battlefront 2 all run fine! Witcher 3 got a Ryzen update and is SMOKING my intel i7 4930k. Most PPL come from intel backgrounds and thats fine - theres a bit of a learning curve here. If your having performance issues download (from AMD of course) AMD RYZEN MASTER - its a program that allows you to set your CPU up or revert it back to stock... Whats important is that you set your memory to LOCAL mode and leave legacy compatibility mode OFF (keeps all the CPU' cores enabled). BOOM there was the performance I was looking for! I Game but I also edit and upload the video's on Twitch/YouTube. The Handbrake encoding speed is nice. Halving the time it took before. There were some hiccups with the motherboard initially but its all been ironed out. I cant believe the memory speeds Im hitting with this - nearly 90GBps on the ram in quad channel config @ 2400mhz. I had the same speed ram in DDR3 on my i7 4930K and the best I saw was around 24GBps! (both 32GB quad kits / G.skill tridentZ RGB vs RipJawZ @ 2400MHz).
It's MASSIVE! and when you first hold it the thing youll notice is the weight - its HEAVY. What a beast of a CPU. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO GET THOSE BIOS UPDATES FOR x399!!!! Especially if your using the Gigabyte.
What can I say I love it, it's fast and if you like video editing your in for a TREAT! Adobe needs to get After Effects/PremierePro updated since it can only use 18 cores but Im seeing software get updated to take advantage of Ryzen so fast.

Overclocking is fine and all but unless you NEED to, I wouldn't OC right off the bat. Im cooling mine with the Fractal Design S36 and when Im transcoding videos in handbrake I average around 63.5c and thats with stock thermal paste. Im waiting for my new PC case to put arctic silver on. Some idoits say Threadripper runs hot - complete BS! Its thermal shut off diode is at 115c! Its rated to run 68c 24/7 - so yeah stock its cool. Idle temps right now for me are 32c. using HWinfo64 I can see my entire mobo is using 120 watts idle and with a full workload averages about 350 watts not counting GPU's. I have it on an Corsair RM850 and its powering the CPU fine (even when I did OC for some testing).

Dont let it sit in your case with a slow SSD SATA hard drive - give this hungry mother what it wants - a full blown PCIe x4 m.2 drive! Its just begging for one and most of the motherboards can feed it up to 3 of these with native ports! FYI AMD just released full m.2 nvme RAID support driver (which is a bit psychotic) but I guess if you need 20GBps read/write hard drive speed - have fun! Intel is BLOCKING this on their non Xeon boards...

Conclusion - Im an intel guy and Im having a BLAST with the Threadripper. Its exotic and different in a way I like. Im not a guy who like the status quota - I like things free and open for me to have my way with and AMD has given me just that! No more restrictions and BIG BROTHER saying what I can and cant do. This firecracker is lit and ready to explode.