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[RachelsCorporateLife]

Hello all

I'll cut to the chase as I merely want a few suggestions on a new workstation.
Reason/workload: Tensorflow Deep Learning applications. I'm currently hitting a VRAM limit on a project and have clearance to build a new machine, the budget is £5k if you can call that a budget.

I basically need advice on previous gen threadripper vs the zen 3 5950x and their motherboards. Think power delivery as stability is essential.
Thanks!

 

[JasonM]

Think power delivery as stability is essential.
Thanks!

Seasonic Titanium, then Corsair ECC memory (AMD Ryzen supports ECC memory, you should choose it).
Gigabyte motherboard that supports ECC - most do but check the Gigabyte motherboards memory support list before buying.
Do you need Quadro or Geforce, the higher end Quadro cards have ECC VRAM.
Choose a good quality case that's quite when computer running under load, and good filtering.

If you want stability a build based around the above will get you going.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Hello all

I'll cut to the chase as I merely want a few suggestions on a new workstation.
Reason/workload: Tensorflow Deep Learning applications. I'm currently hitting a VRAM limit on a project and have clearance to build a new machine, the budget is £5k if you can call that a budget.

I basically need advice on previous gen threadripper vs the zen 3 5950x and their motherboards. Think power delivery as stability is essential.
Thanks!

b550 Vision - some resellers giving away free PCIe 4.0 NVMe 500gb drive.

B550 Master current runs the highest VRM - also ships with free SSD. MSI and asus will have their better B550 boards oout but after Zen3 launch

Cuda cores critical?

 

[Biz.Kid09]

Hello all

I'll cut to the chase as I merely want a few suggestions on a new workstation.
Reason/workload: Tensorflow Deep Learning applications. I'm currently hitting a VRAM limit on a project and have clearance to build a new machine, the budget is £5k if you can call that a budget.

I basically need advice on previous gen threadripper vs the zen 3 5950x and their motherboards. Think power delivery as stability is essential.
Thanks!

Are you looking for a prebuild so you have the guarantee of stability and warranty etc or happy to build it yourself?

 

[RachelsCorporateLife]

b550 Vision - some resellers giving away free PCIe 4.0 NVMe 500gb drive.

B550 Master current runs the highest VRM - also ships with free SSD. MSI and asus will have their better B550 boards oout but after Zen3 launch

Cuda cores critical?

Really! This is fab and what I was looking for thank you, I'm surprised a B board has good VRM's but I'll take it! Free things always helps hence why I come back to ocuk (haribo).

Yes Cuda is critical, sadly the framework is locked into the nvidia ecosystem.
Thanks!

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Really! This is fab and what I was looking for thank you, I'm surprised a B board has good VRM's but I'll take it! Free things always helps hence why I come back to ocuk (haribo).

Yes Cuda is critical, sadly the framework is locked into the nvidia ecosystem.
Thanks!

ocuk isn't currently doing the Free 4.0 PCIe M.2

not sure if @GIGA-Man and Gigabyte can bring a nice deall to OCUK sooon ?

heres the Vision, ECC memory support (4000hz if your dropping in Zen3 should be plug and play), Native thunderbolt to the board

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10#kf

Now the Master has triple PCIe 4.0 m.2 verses the one above !

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B550-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10

again ECC ram and is about £20-30 more. and the VRM is insane! better then X570 boards.

Aorus/Gigabyte have UK RMA on their boards, unlike other brands which may prove critical to you along with rep support

you've got the cash, RTX 3090 for 24GB of VRAM..... 3080 has 10GB

naturally 64 core Thread ripper will be faster then 16 core ryzen 5*** . Not sure when ETA on Zen3 Thread Ripper is though

 

[RachelsCorporateLife]

ocuk isn't currently doing the Free 4.0 PCIe M.2

not sure if @GIGA-Man and Gigabyte can bring a nice deall to OCUK sooon ?

heres the Vision, ECC memory support (4000hz if your dropping in Zen3 should be plug and play), Native thunderbolt to the board

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B550-VISION-D-rev-10#kf

Now the Master has triple PCIe 4.0 m.2 verses the one above !

https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/B550-AORUS-MASTER-rev-10

again ECC ram and is about £20-30 more. and the VRM is insane! better then X570 boards.

Aorus/Gigabyte have UK RMA on their boards, unlike other brands which may prove critical to you along with rep support

you've got the cash, RTX 3090 for 24GB of VRAM..... 3080 has 10GB

naturally 64 core Thread ripper will be faster then 16 core ryzen 5*** . Not sure when ETA on Zen3 Thread Ripper is though

Thank you I'll take a look! Need to make sure it can take enough ram, only reason I'm considering an older threadripper is the amount it can take.
I've seen gigaman doing good things on these forums but personally have only had bad experience with Gigabyte quality *looks at P57X*. Tried to RMA a few years ago and the return time was too long for my work so its now a backups backup haha.

 

[RachelsCorporateLife]

Haha okay thanks all I've settled on an Asus Strix X570-E, amd 5950x, 128gb quad channel Ballistix MAX 4000Mhz and I think one of the new radeon cards once third party benchmarks are out.

I'm going to keep the environment on aws for the meanwhile and help out the amd rocm team. Been an nvidia fangirl for a decade but this launch has be diabolical, might as well remove the Cuda dependancies.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Haha okay thanks all I've settled on an Asus Strix X570-E, amd 5950x, 128gb quad channel Ballistix MAX 4000Mhz and I think one of the new radeon cards once third party benchmarks are out.

I'm going to keep the environment on aws for the meanwhile and help out the amd rocm team. Been an nvidia fangirl for a decade but this launch has be diabolical, might as well remove the Cuda dependancies.

ouch, that price would have gone for B550 Master with EEC ram support, higher VRMs and UK RMA. and free 500GB M.2 Pcie 4.0