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Nice review thanks for that, early strix buyers gambled well.
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Thanks @Rainmaker, that's a decent video. Doesn't look like there's a terrible choice with any of the boards to be honest although.
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Well, colour me impressed with the way TR3 handles memory - pulled the timings in a little and bumped it up to 3733 with 1:1 IF lock - overnight pass of memtest. On Hynix MFR ram as well. Glad I didn't shell out for expensive B-Die stuff.
If you really wanted it, you'd invent a need.Stop posting cool **** on TR3, it's making me want to blow a silly amount of money on something I don't need
Caporegime
Working on it, how many threads can chrome use
Just tell your self you need to play Cinebench or Blender all day
Very nice. Does the bump to 3733 with looser timings work out any better than 3600 at tighter timings?
Stop posting cool **** on TR3, it's making me want to blow a silly amount of money on something I don't need
Of course you need it, you just haven't worked out what for yet. I needed it to be able watch YouTube and post on here at the same time (and run half a dozen VMs, compile code, transcode video, run a VPN at gigabit+ speeds and stuff, but meh)...
Mine will be running a 20+ VMware homelab. And gaming.
VMs will be something like:
6+ ESXi nested virtual hosts running vSAN
DC
Veeam
Exchange
vCenter
vROps
VRLI
vRA
vRO
NSX-T
Probably some other stuff. With it all in VMware Workstation I can just close it and it'll suspend all of the VMs. I do probably need more storage at some point.
VMs will be something like:
6+ ESXi nested virtual hosts running vSAN
DC
Veeam
Exchange
vCenter
vROps
VRLI
vRA
vRO
NSX-T
Probably some other stuff. With it all in VMware Workstation I can just close it and it'll suspend all of the VMs. I do probably need more storage at some point.
Soldato
BY gaming do you mean playing with you new lady friend?
That too. We are at a formal dinner tonight so I'm not home and can't get my KD up in Apex.
Is there a core limit on ESXi? I was disappointed to see that my Workstation Pro is limited to 16 cores, and even VirtaulBox only sees 24 (and it's not just because 24 physical, because it saw 12 on my 6/12 8700k).
You mean assignable cores to the VMs?
Yeah. I wasn't very clear, sorry.
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Well, I can't get it stable at 3600C14, so I went up in freq instead and tightened some of the sub timings (stock for the ram is something like 16-19-19-19-39-85-680 and I've tightened to 16-19-19-19-38-60-480 while going from 1.35v to 1.4v). I'm not overly experienced on ram timings so not sure what else to change/tweak and the Ryzen DRAM calc doesn't really help as it only goes up to 3466mhz for Hynix MFR ram.
It's at a nice spot either way, you'll have no bother with that.
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Yeah, considering it only cost me 320 for 64gb I'm pretty chuffed.
For a single VM the limit is 64 cores per socket and 2 sockets, at least that is the limit for each vm on my 64 thread rome hosts:
It also shows the correct amount of logical threads per node, the node below is on 6.7 update 2, my other 2 are running update 3, when I get a spare day ill vmotion all the machines and update the 3rd one:
It's the same with threadripper, even 1st gen.
You will need to upgrade the VM hardware compatibility level for the VM to allow an increase in core count if you're importing the VM from an earlier version of esxi. In the screenshot above you
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I finally made the jump to threadripper 3960x and was wondering what is the best program to test cpu stability. Everything is stock but I am on air cooling
with a TR4 dark rock Pro cpu cooler, have a nzxt kraken 360 AIO but right now everything is on a bench and don't want to install everything in the case with watercooling until I am sure it all works well.
with a TR4 dark rock Pro cpu cooler, have a nzxt kraken 360 AIO but right now everything is on a bench and don't want to install everything in the case with watercooling until I am sure it all works well.