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*** AMD ThreadRipper ***

I'd recommend doing a manual overclock to 4.3 or 4.4 Ghz and keeping the voltage around 1.3V. On default the voltage can get quite high and this pushes the temps up.
 
JonJ678 said:
8 channel threadripper seems unlikely. Board + chip would end up costing about the same as the current epyc chips. Since it would basically be one.
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Some Epyc chips and boards are cheaper than the current gen TR - so I don't see any reason why they couldn't do this. Intel offer HCC fast parts with larger memory limits than current TR for workstations - and 256GB of RAM is probably a bit of a low limit when you can have 64 cores anyway :D
 
To be honest 256GB of RAM for my purposes is pushing it a little bit. Given the amount of cores I have (24) I could easily run a lab that would consume another 100GB or so.

Part of me has thought about buying a 2U server with an EPYC chip and downsizing the desktop but it's just expense for expenses sake.
 
ChrisD. said:
To be honest 256GB of RAM for my purposes is pushing it a little bit. Given the amount of cores I have (24) I could easily run a lab that would consume another 100GB or so.

Part of me has thought about buying a 2U server with an EPYC chip and downsizing the desktop but it's just expense for expenses sake.
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What do you need 256gb ram for? I use 64gb atm but will upgrade it to 128 next month pay day
 
I'm having this same problem at the mo - though on a 1950x and 64gb RAM. Some stuff like big mysql dbs (relative to vm memory) I've been able to use faster storage to reduce memory footprint - but it's not ideal and you can only do it for certain types of things.

My plan is build a few smaller Ryzen machines to supplement the main box, so far I've built 1 compact machine from spares and clearance/second hand bits (Ryzen 1700, 32gb ram) - but unless you can get bits cheap it's better value to get a single bigger box I find.
 
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BongoHunter said:
I'm having this same problem at the mo - though on a 1950x and 64gb RAM. Some stuff like big mysql dbs (relative to vm memory) I've been able to use faster storage to reduce memory footprint - but it's not ideal and you can only do it for certain types of things.

My plan is build a few smaller Ryzen machines to supplement the main box, so far I've built 1 compact machine from spares and clearance/second hand bits (Ryzen 1700, 32gb ram) - but unless you can get bits cheap it's better value to get a single bigger box I find.
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ummm so maube its cheaper to have it all in one box with 256gm ram or more ??
 
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