alt Hacker NewsHere I am running a 12 year old Dell PowerEdge with dual Xeons.. I wonder when the first gen Epyc servers will be cheap fodder on eBay.
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IMO, 1st gen Epyc is not any good, given that 2nd gen exists, is more popular and is cheap enough (I actually have epyc 7302 and MZ31-AR0 motherboard as homelab). Too low performance per core and NUMA things, plus worse node (2nd gen compute is 7nm TSMC)
Unsure about the Epyc chips but Ryzen 5 series kit was being given away on Amazon in the week...
I snagged a 9 5950X for £242
Not worth. Get 9654 on eBay for $2k plus $1k for mobo. $7k full system. Or go Epyc 7282 type, and that’s good combo easily available.
They already are, and aren't very good.
Haha same, and it’s perfectly capable of anything a smallish company would need for general on-prem hosting.
1-3rd gen Epycs can be had super cheap, but the motherboards are expensive.
Also not worth getting anything less than 3rd gen unless you're primarily buying them for the pcie lanes and ram capacity - a regular current gen consumer CPU with half - a quarter of the core count will outperform them in compute while consuming significantly less power.