Can Epyc Be A Workstation CPU? Featuring The Tyan S8030

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[@Level1Techs]

Oops! two corrections. I misread the block diagram: ftp://ftp1.tyan.com/doc/S8030_UG_v1.0b.pdf The HD Mini Sas connectionx (3x) are for SATA only. BUT slimline SAS (NOT oculink!) are the Pcie x8 interfaces there. My bad, sorry about that.

[@jannikneuwirth2243]

Please review the "AsRock Rack ROMED8-2T ATX" - looks pretty decent for this same purpose. Maybe together with the "V-color 32GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC Load Reduced DIMM DDR4 2666MHz" - ECC, CL 17 @ 1.2V! Wondering how far an overclock could go with these. Anyways, thanks for the great content. Cheers

[@temp50]

Also, according to the datasheet it could support 2TBs of RAM. Hooray! :D "Up to 512GB RDIMM/ 1,024GB LRDIMM/ 2,048GB LRDIMM 3DS *Follow latest AMD DDR4 Memory POR"

[@operator8014]

Another correction, @6:18 - MoBo RGB started on L33T G4M3R Desktops. Still hasn't made it's way to servers. Microcomp be lagging.

[@AdamDeBeers]

I bought everything you mentioned in this video. Then I woke up. What a dream.

[@pinakinkale]

You could say that it makes a pretty epyc workstation

[@GrimpakTheMook]

*ba-dum-tss*

[@RoryIsNotACabbage]

You could. But don't

[@flweeptwo]

Bruh

[@IFUCKINHATEY0UTUBE]

Such a dad joke. Definitely approve! 🤣

[@pascaljean2333]

Oh hoo 👈👈👁👄👁

[@OverlordActual]

I was hoping to see how the M.2 mechanism worked.

[@JediAcolyte]

I like how Wendell has just 2 stacks of sex books casually sitting next to him on the set!

[@majikulone3608]

the stories of orgies....got me to giggle

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

sex books

[@frederikholfeld868]

lol

[@rynz_2893]

yeah! what the hell hahaha

[@abhineetsingh12]

How to build a Epyc server : you need a swiss army knife which hopefully has a s screwdriver in it and then you need to screw in with confidence. xD

[@thelunchbox420x]

Don't forget the tweezers.

[@virtualinfinity6280]

I pretty much use that setup since may as my new workstation build (ROMED8-2T mobo with 7702p and 512G). I use it for simulating infrastructures (kubernets clusters, OpenStack, F5 virtual appliances, NetAPP simulators and whatnot all cobbled together). My main concern (besides CPU power, corecount and memory capacity) was, to build a silent system under load. Therefore, I was concerned with the headsink orientation and a decent, long-term reliable cooling solution. The planned lifetime of the system is around 4-5 years. I just want to share some details of my build, just in case someone may make good use of the hints: I went for the Notuca NH-U14S you cited as a cooler. Case is a corsair carbide air 540, a cube case which allows for decent airflow over the mobo. I slapped in 5 bequiet silent wings 3 140mm fans. Two at the top of the case blowing out, two at the front blowing in and one at the back blowing out. The heatsink-fan blows "upwards" towards the two top fans blowing out. All fans a PWM. Power supply is a 1200W bequiet straight power 11. All storage is SSD (either nvme or sata), so there is no noise there. The end-result is astonishing. Even under full CPU load (linux, mersenne-prime CPU tortue test), the CPU barely reaches 65 Celsius even after hours and all fans stay below 1000rpms. The system remains barely audible, while sitting in a 19" cabinet right next to my desk. If running the aforementioned test, even if you open the cabinet and "hear" inside, the system is barely audible. So, if anyone wants to go the same route in terms of workstation build and can accept the expandability-limits of the corsair 540 (2*5.25", 4*2,5" internally - the 2*3,5" internally at the bottom of the case are not usable due to the mobos size and I took them out), I strongly recommend this build.

[@svettnabb]

I thought Asrock was the only boards that are solid as a rock..

[@rabidwallaby84]

6:50 - Subtle Verge ribbing. LOVE IT!

[@suhailkhaan]

Waiting to see the build process. 👍👍👍

[@keeperofthegood]

Would like to see this built, in a system, and benched between a full server and a threadripper.

[@daveg4417]

Interesting setup if used for a workstation. I looked at TR, TR-Pro, Epyc, and Xeon W for a new workstation earlier this year 2023. The TR-Pro was crazy price here in Canada and basically old tech now with PCIe4/DDR4, the Epyc didn't have the workstation setup I wanted, since it is aimed towards servers. I settled on an Intel Xeon W7-2495X 24C 48T, Noctua NH-U14S-4677, ASUS WS Pro W790 ACE (max 2TB), 512GB DDR5-4800 ECC RDIMM, ASUS ROG STRIX RTX-3090 OC 24GB, WD Black SN850X 4TB, WD Black SN770, Corsair 5000D Airflow, Corsair HX1200 Platinum PSU, Dell 34-inch Ultrasharp Wide, Ducky One2 kbd, Microsoft mouse, Mackie speakers, APC 1500 UPS. The workstation is awesome. I use it for the 3D software I develop, and for Unreal Engine 5 work.

[@popcorny007]

300k subs! Congrats

[@hotstovejer]

Linus: 7 gamers 1 CPU!! Wendall: Hold my drink.

[@hotstovejer]

@Andrew Crews I was not going to assume with Wendall. He's next level.

[@tmi1234567]

@@hotstovejer I think 15 gamers 2 cpus is the max. That's still 8 cores per user with a 8x pcie 4.0 interface.

[@hotstovejer]

@@tmi1234567 you mean 2 times more gamers?!?!?! #yayamd

[@Level1Techs]

You'll probably catch him drinking a coke or Fanta ;P

[@hotstovejer]

@@Level1Techs I knew you were a man of culture.

[@mohd5rose]

MacGyver: Built something with a swiss knife. Wendell: Installing an expensive processor with a swiss knife. Epyc!!!

[@TheBibliofilus]

YES, Tyan! Still have my old Tyan Tiger 100 (S1832DL) with dual Slot 1 sockets for PII & PIII from -97 in a case as a footstand under my desk for a rainy day, maxed out and rocking two PIII 500Mhz

[@EposVox]

Dammit, Wendell, now I want to build the ultimate capture rig with this

[@lrrrruleroftheplanetomicro6881]

Be glad that you didn't, Zen2 was awful for anything video. Zen3 on the other hand...

[@sbrazenor2]

"I want to like Epyc, but there's just not enough cores and threads." - Nobody.

[@yumri4]

Well 64-core / 128-thread is not enough for some but for most workstations it is enough. As he said it is overkill for most but when it isn't you do need all 128-threads. I can't think of anything but AI that could use 128 threads that will work better on the CPU than on the GPU.

[@plonk420]

​ @yumri4 i can use all 128 threads doing AV1 encodes -_- (see the project av1an on github) ...just short of 2 days to encode a movie at 1080p on an 8 core 1700X... and that's not even at the highest quality setting (~4th down, "--cpu-used=3")

[@xrafter]

Nobody is such an idiot.

[@lost4468yt]

lol amd suck. why on earth would i pay like $2500 for 32 cores 64 threads? I can go on ebay and buy a Xeon Phi for $200 that has 72 cores and 288 threads. and guess what? i can put four of those in one system so i can have 288 cores and 1152 threads in one system. u cant do that for amd. intel had this tech YEARS ago. its old school now. intel just did there best quarter ever, theyre doing better than ever

[@sbrazenor2]

@@lost4468yt Phi cards are co-processors and they run pretty slow. They are also not incredibly compatible with a lot of functions and they're out-moded by newer tech. Just dropping one (or several) of them into a rig isn't going to actually help anything. The PCIe slot it takes could be used for a GPU that can accelerate renders, act as a fixed point or floating point computational aid (breaking encryption, for instance), etc.

[@ZeroG84]

Hey Wendell! Rick Beato needs your help with some storage! Dude has decades of music and tracks and albums in his harddrives, and he keeps getting new external drives. :D lol Would be a cool video with a cool dude.

[@dbauernf]

I have ZERO interest in the subject and I'd buy completely different stuff.. but I love the video!

[@Outland9000]

I am so happy the old back ground music is back!!! It's also kind of spooky that I have recently (just last week) been thinking about the possibility of an Epyc workstation PC.

[@MrDaChicken]

Because we all knew Wendell was gonna have an Epyc workstation. The drool runs down his chin when he sees them. So... congrats I guess? Good stuff.

[@DenGuleBalje]

I would love to see a dual 7F72 workstation.

[@SamuPamu]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 300K SUBSCRIBERS

[@hugevibez]

Hey those are not OCuLink, but x8 SlimSAS. OCuLink is SFF-8611 and is PCIe x4 (4.0 on boards released for Rome) Btw, if you're looking at Rome the ASUS KRPA-U16 is cheaper than this and has some neat add on abilities like OCP 2.0 and a HBA card for the build in miniSAS HD connectors. It's a server board, but no one says you can't put it in a Define XL or O-11 XL or something. That and the frequency optimized 24c part and now we're talking about a heavy duty system. 6 NVMe drives plus 12 sata SSDs is some sort of tiered storage/caching situation (don't think zfs would be the way to go with such a solution?) and dual QSFP28 ports, plus enough PCIe lanes to spare for some heavy computing. Now that's a system that I would build if I stood in your shoes, can probably get a second video out of it too about advanced NVMe storage solutions or whatever insanity you can come up with in such a build. My dream is 3-4 systems like this working both redundantly and as what I call an "extreme edge"-node, which are directly connected to both m/kb and video/audio and load up a VM locally with containers dynamically distributed over the cluster. Whoops sorry I started dreaming out loud when talking about that Asus motherboard. This is basically my version of sending a video request to an amateur pornstar lol.

[@Swarmsec]

Subscribed! Thanks for the information.

[@Phynix72]

This the kind of motherboard layout I would like to have on each & every motherboard. Uni-directional airflow.

[@joedeats]

Thanks for doing this it’s creative and kinda bonkers!

[@DocNo27]

Some of the most stable and reliable boards I have ever ran were Tyan. Only problem is paying for them :)

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

The larger Swiss Army pocket knife even got a Phillips-head screwdriver in it 👍

[@yrelyk]

I love your portrait monitor in the background running Ubuntu 20.04...which is what I run on my UDOO Bolt...

[@survivor303]

Next video needed to be "all about epyc motherboard ports and connectors". People need to know.

[@Infinit3Enigma]

The octa channel memory tied with more cores in itself is more than enough for simulations (like cfd/fea/astrophysics). Imagine all dat openfoam performance!. Also having the pcie lanes are also amazing for CUDA.

[@Metal-Possum]

VGA and a serial port? I love it.

[@tchiwam]

I use 2x 7262 as a work station and I have no issue. This is crunching my data and I can view it as it comes.

[@marcin_karwinski]

I wonder what would you say about something of an even more epic workstation - by reaching to ASRockRack for their ROMED4ID-2T, pair it with 128GB+ of RAM sticks (quad-ranked with 4 sticks, you're at the Epyc's mem controller sweetspot), watercool it, smash it inside some ITX case, eg. CM NR200 or Sama Quzao IM01, use those 6x PCIe4x8 to add eg. 4x2.5" U.2 NVMe drives, another to add USB controllers (for extra ports of higher speeds, great for WS builds) and audio card or WiFi card in some low-profile format to somehow place them within those smaller cases, add a watercooled GPU and you could possibly end up with an extremely beefy SFF overkill per volume, and possibly even better than this... And truly something different since you can't get TR in mATX or mITX or mDTX format... Now that would have been a marvel noone could dispute against by showing TR alternative ;)

[@MrSph1nX]

​!! Please explain the Value/Need/use-case for Quad Channel (Virtualization, not gaming...)

[@RCTPAVUK]

@Wendell, Running supermicro satadom on my esxi host. So far very happy.

[@DenGuleBalje]

The fact that server motherboards and not "gaming" motherboards are airflow optimized is a crime.

[@timramich]

Motherboards for towers, whether they're "gaming" or workstation boards, ARE optimized. For convection. So putting a server board in a tower case is a crap shoot.

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

@@timramich kinda, ATX as a forum factor technically isn't which is why Intel tried BTX. I have some oem BTX boards that were in Dell machines, it actually makes sense. PcIe isn't directly below the CPU etc, idk if it even is "better" anymore. Idk that's a whole separate convo I guess lol.

[@morosis82]

To be fair, gaming motherboards are usually in a case with plenty of room to add fans to overcome suboptimal airflow. Server boards are wedged in the smallest possible space they can occupy, surrounded by a dozen others.

[@DenGuleBalje]

@@morosis82 Doesn't have to be like that.

[@maxfactor4209]

just placed the order for 7 of these for a brand new deep learning lab. these will be paired with quadro rtx 8000 and 128 GB ECC memory.

[@augurseer]

I have watched to do a Tyan build for years.

[@Farmfield]

If you do high end video editing, compositing or 3D graphics, that 30% lower single threaded performance will really slow you down, though... Just overall, a lot of stuff simply can't be threaded due to the math. Stuff like resampling curves or some types of mesh optimizations are just not possible to multithread... Now, for the work I do, like building custom simulation setups with very specific controls for the artists, I can usually work around most of that, but not all of it. And if you're in Premiere, AE, Resolve or Nuke, it's not that easy to work around... But people doing this stuff should really use real time per core monitoring so they see the single threaded bottlenecks slowing stuff down in production. I've used that for over a decade - man, it's helpful. 😁👌

[@lrrrruleroftheplanetomicro6881]

Yeah, looked into that a year ago, and the answer was no. Now that Milan has replaced by Rome, the answer is *YES*.

[@bartoszm84]

I hope in future we will be able to build a cheapo epyc workstation from retired server hardware.

[@Offsettttt]

6:49 Installing 2500$ CPU with a swiss army knife?? ))) Verge enters the chat...

[@Level1Techs]

"he's either really good... Or really bad...." Lol

[@Offsettttt]

@@Level1Techs Haha true! To be fair, swiss army knife is perfect for the job, as long as you know what you're doing )) Love the videos, cheers from UA!

[@spdcrzy]

Do a workstation review of the MZ72-HB0! I'd love to hear your thoughts on watercooling a dual EPYC setup.

[@ashwinijha4033]

Are you building in India? I am also interested in building a workstation for my data science work. What has been your experience in building a workstation in India? Cost? Noise control? Where did you source components? Thanks in anticipation

[@NdxtremePro]

Isn't Windows 10 Pro for Workstations meant for this type of thing? I thought it was basically the Server stuff in the kernel turned on to be used in the consumer space.

[@DMSparky]

Educating folks on the real advantages of big brain blower style coolers. 🧠

[@yadtahir9443]

That VCORE will need serious cooling.

[@FiRem002]

The P processors are now more expensive than their 1P/2P counterparts :P

[@johnmijo]

WENDELL: "You can create and use the *EPYC* server CPU as a Workstation." AMD: That is NOT officially supported, qualifications and all. TYAN: Wendell, we can help you out!

[@kwinzman]

It's easier to find high endurance SD than equal or better USB flash storage? *doubt*

[@jannikneuwirth2243]

Please review the "AsRock Rack ROMED8-2T ATX" - looks pretty decent for this same purpose. Maybe together with the "V-color 32GB DDR4 SDRAM ECC Load Reduced DDR4 2666MHz" - ECC, CL 17 @ 1.2V! Wondering how far an overclock could go with these. Anyways, thanks for the great content. Cheers

[@TheDude50447]

Have you checked VRM temps on this thing? I dont know the components but it does look like a small vrm for a 64 core.

[@Ghennesph]

I counted, and not counting the optional 10gig LAN, I think you need 132 PCIE lanes for everything on the board.

[@cdoublejj]

TYAN!!! Long time no see!!!

[@samuelschwager]

I wanna see how Threadripper Pro performs before I buy anything ;)

[@oldporkchops]

With the benefit of hindsight, which motherboard would you recommend if you were to build an Epyc dual CPU SP3 socket workstation today? Would it be Gigabyte, Super Micro, Tyan, AsRock Rack, or others? Ideally, it should fit into an easily accessible chassis. It'll primarily be used for everyday computing workstation, but I'd like to use downtime to mine. Thank you for taking time to advise.

[@krazyhartin]

Which Kevin Macleod song is that? I like it.

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

What does have to do with Captain Picard?

[@jeroktalram]

What's with the lego in the one shot?

[@tkolbe73]

I would buy this MoBo today if i was sure it would support 7262 or 7272 with Windows 10 Ultimate and drivers for it, I most of all need the PCIe lanes / Slots.

[@t.m.grokas6832]

What a choice selection of books on the right there 😂

[@vingolae]

I am using a WS with epyc 7402p now, but with OS ws2019. I tried various ver of win10 like pro or education, but on none of those I can make chipset driver installed. CPU-Z even mistakenly recognized my CPU as TR . . Meanwhile on ws2019, everything just works fine. However I will consider ubuntu 2004 after I got my GPUs home . . ..

[@bulzaiguard]

This motherboard looks nice but in my opinion the Asrock rack "ROMED8-2T" is a better choice for "workstation" if you use a lot of pcie cards (not only gpus)

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

@Level1Techs Suggestion to start a crowdfunding campaign for such a reduced, bare “interface adapter” Threadripper Pro (and Ryzen) motherboard? I’d like “nothing” on it, just gimme aaall the PCI lanes from the CPU to various slots. You can use a dedicated PCIe USB controller AIC for keyboard BIOS access if the BIOS is in UEFI boot mode (just make it the CMOS clear default setting).

[@majikulone3608]

lulz the stories of orgies... gett'em Wendell!

[@excitedbox5705]

I wanted to see some Benchmarks. Now we don't know how workstation software runs on Epyc.

[@Luscious3174]

What's the driver situation with Rome? Can W10Pro for workstation be installed when there is no physical chipset?

[@hefnyx]

You will pay 600USD more than a Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core, 64-Thread, just for 8 channel RAM and lower boost? Why? I think it is best to wait and see the price of the Lenovo P620 with Threadripper Pro.

[@jacksonlira8278]

Jackson Lyra jornalista Brasil parabenizo seu canal

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

It is a shame that Little Devil doesn't make a EPYC compatible PC case with integrated Phase Change Cooler.

[@isbestlizard]

I wish there were motherboards that actually moved the pcie slots to give you room to install 2x gpu's.. what's the point of having 128 pcie lanes if they're all crammed in next to each other. intel xeon workstation boards have pcie slot arrangements that give plenty of space between them for full tower installs

[@isbestlizard]

Like this one: www.supermicro.com/CDS_Image/uploads/imagecache/600px_wide/intel_motherboard_active/x10drg-q-1.jpg SOMEONE make something for epyc ffs

[@atefamriche9531]

#Wendell, quick question if you could help please. What kind of temps was hwinfo64 reporting on this Tyan mainboard for your epyc CPU? specifically the Tctl/Tdie and average Tdie? Thanks in advance

[@MarekNowakowski]

more I/O would be hard to populate on such board... We need better connectors than those long PCIe slots. Almost 30 years seems like it would be enough to make the port more like USB size.

[@craigmurray4746]

What kind of I/O are you thinking of? A couple of quad port SAS HBA cards and you can have stupid amounts of hard drives available for one. Quad port network cards can end up with a serious hardware firewall/router....

[@missedby1bit293]

Oculink x8 was mentioned but I don't see it in the Tyan S8030 specs?

[@davidedwards7172]

Did you get that from Linus when he took down the PC Pro?

[@ChaitanyaShukla2503]

Some cheap entry level motherboards from Asus and Gigabyte also have clip-on M.2 SSD mount.

[@infiltr80r]

Taunting to build a server board based workstation. I've always used consumer/gaming category parts. Are there any real pitfalls?

[@KayJay01]

Apart from long boot times, lack of overclocking features and a lackluster BIOS, no.

[@freak-zd4wm]

I actually built a Workstation with an Epyc 7502P and it definitely is Epyc

[@freak-zd4wm]

@hot100easypack I did not test with geekbench, but maybe I will do it in the future Cinebench R15 6300 Cinebench R20 14800 I did some other Benchmarks like the Passmark one. All the results were pretty good but I do not remember the exact results For those who are interested I used the Asus KRPA-U16 Motherboard, 8x32GB Samsung RAM with 2933 MHz, 1TB 970 Evo Plus M. 2, a 2080ti blower design from Pny and a BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 1000W PSU

[@plonk420]

yussss LOTES socket. does Foxconn even MAKE server sockets? Foxconn was balls on my X399 Designare EX... >_

[@chaython]

Never heard of nor seen oculink before.

[@lolaras]

Can someone explain to me how in consumer boards there is so much focus on powerdelivery/chiset temps to the point where fans are used, aside from the standard but ever growing heatsinks. How on earth does a pro MB, like this require NONE of these? what am i missing?

[@noname-gp6hk]

A couple of reasons - this is a server motherboard which plays in a different market segment than consumer land, and different markets have different needs. High end consumer motherboards are expected to have overclocking support. In order to support the power delivery demands of an overclocked CPU, these motherboards have very large VRM designs with as many power stages as possible to increase peak current delivery and improve transient response under high loading... Basically allow the board to perform well and be stable under high load. The power delivery specification here is unknown and is basically 'as big as possible'. Things like power consumption and board cost are relatively unimportant factors here. Over in server land, processors cannot be overclocked. This means that maximal power delivery is a known quantity, and much smaller VRMs can be designed. Key factors in this market revolve around lowest possible power consumption and board cost, so VRMs here are designed to be as cheap, efficient, and small as possible without sacrificing reliability. Another part is marketing. A large chunk of consumer motherboards are sold based on what they look like. Flashy looks simply add cost to server products, making what is basically an industrial computer more expensive for no reason.

[@noname-gp6hk]

Also, in regards to lack of chipset and VRM fans... Motherboard fans are always a board designer's last hope to solve thermal problems. You don't want to use them unless you absolutely have to. As a moving part, a fan is one of the most likely points of failure that you can design into your product. One of the most important things to a server is high uptime and reliability, and relying on little fans attached to the motherboard is a good way to ruin your reputation as the fans fail out in the field. Another reason that you rarely see chipset or VRM fans on server motherboards is due to chassis design. Consumer motherboards live in unknown chassis of usually questionable airflow and cooling. A motherboard with a marginal VRM design that runs on the hot side could cook itself to death in a poorly cooled desktop PC chassis, so you're more likely to see consumer motherboards with VRM fans slapped on by the board designer just to be safe in a wider variety of desktop cases. Server chassis, on the other hand, almost universally have large volumes of front-to-back air blowing across the entire chassis. This nearly guarantees that the passive VRM heatsink seen on most server motherboards gets plenty of airflow across the fins, which removes the need for fans on even the worst planned and hottest VRM designs. Hope this helps.

[@plqphotographytech]

I am guessing this has no audio onboard?

[@barryram2605]

So where's the workstation?

[@alex_steed8472]

Server costs more than my life, W uses a Swiss army knife to screw.

[@QuentinStephens]

What do you think of the Asrock Rack motherboards? I'm thinknig specifically of the ROMED8-2T and ROMED6U-2L2T

[@hotstovejer]

Romed8-2t looks baller.

[@jelssonlfflame6823]

I wonder when i will be able to get one used extremely cheap

[@KevinFlynn_]

Nice motherboard

[@Ray88G]

Will it support new upcoming 7003 series Milan cpu's ?

[@Unknown-jl7mg]

i used g34 on win7 - win8,1. with no problems. can you confirm sp3 works well on win10 desktop os ?

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

Is there any reason why there are no Threadripper motherboards without a chipset solely using the CPU package‘s SoC?

[@tommihommi1]

AMD doesn't allow it.

[@abavariannormiepleb9470]

tommihommi1 Maybe “we” can start a crowdfunding campaign for such a reduced, bare “interface adapter” Threadripper (and Ryzen’ motherboard? I’d like “nothing” on it, just gimme aaall the PCI lanes from the CPU to various slots. You can use a dedicated PCIe USB controller AIC for keyboard BIOS access if the BIOS is in UEFI boot mode (just make it the CMOS clear default setting).

[@glennsteen]

Ona has to just love Epyc...

[@raphaeltoubol8023]

The push on plastic screw replacements for m.2's are on some of the cheapest Asus AMD B450 Motherboards wendell, does it feel like a sturdy implementation on this motherboard? feels kind of weak and flimsy on those cheap asus ones

[@jolness1]

I wanted to buy a Tyan board for my server but supermicro was way easier to find. Tyan quality is excellent although supermicro is quite impressive as well.

[@henrykatz7540]

I had left Tyan last decade as soon as I discovered Supermicro's systems.

[@LucasHartmann]

If you want a motherboard that is solid... AsRock! ... Wait... Wrong brand?

[@Quarky_]

Epyc breakout board ;)

[@PramitBiswas]

Now, the real question is, does it support RGB?

[@ghostbirdofprey]

Come now Wendell, surely you should know the term for a big dumb circuit board is a backplane.

[@benjamintrathen6119]

Could you daisy chain a few of these together with occulink?