{"id":5034,"date":"2026-02-04T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2026-02-04T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T18:42:13","slug":"threadripper-pro-9985wx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2026\/02\/04\/threadripper-pro-9985wx\/","title":{"rendered":"Threadripper PRO 9985WX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Motherboard for the CPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have recently bought the Threadripper PRO 9000 for my <span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gigabyte.com\/Motherboard\/TRX50-AI-TOP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigabyte TRX50\u202fAI\u202fTOP Motherboard.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Since the Threadripper is so big, it tends to overheat a lot. So I would suggest getting a water cooling fan for it. The motherboard itself has a <strong>quad channel<\/strong> so it can hold 8 sticks of ram. It has 4 6Gb sata connectors and 3 M.2 connectors. There are 4 PCIE slots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5068\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/MOTHERBOARD.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The CPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I find this CPU to be really nice for this motherboard, it runs everything so smooth and super fast. There are defienitly better options for this motherboard, and there are a lot cheaper motherboards in general. The motherboard is around <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/gigabyte-trx50-ai-top-extended-atx-motherboard-amd-trx50-str5\/p\/N82E16813145539?srsltid=AfmBOoqWm6ijinVYRH89M7XC6JAUAPVK7mbSp-Dba5HOmlhVbJ4hfASa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">$1,900<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and the CPU is around <span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-9985wx-shimada-peak-socket-str5-processor\/p\/N82E16819113910?srsltid=AfmBOorX6lIMcV5WFk7fsWDdRYh6-7t2ZmYtUJnQycIEqiZWAuKl76i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$8,000<\/a><\/strong> so just for those two things you are spending around $9,900 and there is still more to make the computer run well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/AMD-THREADRIPPER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Threadripper PRO 9985WX Specifcations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Socket: sTR5<\/li>\n<li>Cores: 64<\/li>\n<li>Threads: 128<\/li>\n<li>Max Turbo Speed: 5.4 GHz<\/li>\n<li>Memory Support: DDR5 6400<\/li>\n<li>L1 Instruction Cache: 64 x 32 KB<\/li>\n<li>L1 Data Cache: 64 x 32 KB<\/li>\n<li>L2 Cache: 64 x 1024 KB<\/li>\n<li>L3 Cache: 256 M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5070\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/PassMark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I think this is a really good cpu if you have the money to spare. It feels really smooth and is really fast. I spent a decent chunk of change on this and it was worth it if you have the money, if not you can defienetly find a lot better cheaper options, but if you have a good chunk of money to blow I would definitely get this. It is a very nice option and a great choice, jsut very pricey but it is definitely good, but it is not worth buying this over something less expensive.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Refrences<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-9985wx-shimada-peak-socket-str5-processor\/p\/N82E16819113910?srsltid=AfmBOorX6lIMcV5WFk7fsWDdRYh6-7t2ZmYtUJnQycIEqiZWAuKl76i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Threadripper PRO 9985WX<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/gigabyte-trx50-ai-top-extended-atx-motherboard-amd-trx50-str5\/p\/N82E16813145539?srsltid=AfmBOoqWm6ijinVYRH89M7XC6JAUAPVK7mbSp-Dba5HOmlhVbJ4hfASa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gigabyte TRX50\u202fAI\u202fTOP<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpubenchmark.net\/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Ryzen+Threadripper+PRO+9985WX&amp;id=6807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passmark<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/gigabyte-trx50-ai-top-extended-atx-motherboard-amd-trx50-str5\/p\/N82E16813145539?srsltid=AfmBOoqWm6ijinVYRH89M7XC6JAUAPVK7mbSp-Dba5HOmlhVbJ4hfASa&amp;scrlybrkr=f74d014c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Motherboard Price<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/amd-ryzen-threadripper-pro-9985wx-shimada-peak-socket-str5-processor\/p\/N82E16819113910?srsltid=AfmBOorX6lIMcV5WFk7fsWDdRYh6-7t2ZmYtUJnQycIEqiZWAuKl76i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPU Price<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0 This review is part of a classroom project.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Motherboard for the CPU \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have recently bought the Threadripper PRO 9000 for my Gigabyte TRX50\u202fAI\u202fTOP Motherboard.\u00a0Since the Threadripper is so big, it tends to overheat a lot. So I would suggest getting a water cooling fan for it. The motherboard itself has a quad channel so it can hold 8 sticks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2026\/02\/04\/threadripper-pro-9985wx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Threadripper PRO 9985WX<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpu-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5034\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}