Test Driving AMD's Epyc 32 Core Monster CPU

[@zr6542]

okay, this is epyc

[@simonl1938]

ryze up

[@yumri4]

yep and not threadripper so thus more expensive by default. BUT also able to hold and access more system RAM than most have storage on their local machine.

[@zr6542]

@@yumri4 r/woosh/

[@WeirdSeagul]

the motherboard is so thought out compared to a lot of consumer mobos

[@shaunc.8810]

I wish consumer boards focused more on design like this. Actual time and thought was put in.

[@djsnowpdx]

Funny that Gigabyte, known in the consumer space for legendary RGB, has stripped it all out for the pros. God I hate the RGB trend. It makes me feel like manufacturers aren’t taking gamers’ needs seriously.

[@kevadu]

@@djsnowpdx I agree with you but...RGB sells. Apparently RGB *is* what gamers want...

[@JohnBuckmaster]

We moved from 4x dual socket Intel to 3x single socket Epyc (7601 in specific), and saved a buttload. They're amazing for our workloads (lots of VMs).

[@laloajuria4678]

i understood none of that.....it was great.

[@kulibzz8254]

"Customers don't look for 400W CPU". Fast forward to April 2019. 400W Intels monsters shown on stage.

[@EposVox]

But we love your jokes!

[@un_xtraordinary5261]

Indeed

[@schmudge]

now THAT's funny

[@papal1ef]

But Ryan's humor is even better. The sarcasm of Ryan is unmatched on KZbin

[@makaiboone2856]

i know im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb forgot my password. I would appreciate any assistance you can give me!

[@ezrajoel870]

@Makai Boone instablaster :)

[@h0len]

Whenever you say this is insane, AMD tells their engineers: hey we have to double the previous CPU, wendell called it insane again...

[@alextell7019]

64 CORES FOR YOU!!!!!!!!

[@larrygall5831]

This is a great video, thanks for sharing this. I've been curious about the EPYC platform, but have no access to anything personally. There are other videos, but nobody explains like Wendell and the clarity and depth is very comforting. I wish you put out more videos, but I understand time is a resource and KZbin isn't your whole world. Thanks again.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Oooh no we can 32 Doom instances simultaneously.

[@JochemKuijpers]

32 gamers 1 cpu

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

Perfect for 32 Pentium era Dos Gaming. @@JochemKuijpers

[@jari2018]

more like 32 Doom 3 servers at the same time with 16 players each

[@ChristianArnold5107]

probably more than that

[@derekyu6150]

"we did something unholy" - every video on this channel

[@AchwaqKhalid]

And "Bananas" 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@tomtalk24]

I love how Wendell is more interested in checking out the IOMMU groups than expanding the root partition after installing Fedora lol

[@musclecar2891]

I want to see a demo of some actual workloads. I'd love a video series like "Hey I built a sever, now what?"

[@timcarpenter2441]

So nice to see articles that are not about RGB or frame rates. I have an ArcXL, waiting for Zen2

[@questionablecommands9423]

4:09 while I'm uncertain of the build, this exact sort of consolidation is what we're about to do at my job. Now I'm seriously wondering if the new machines are Epyc builds. Our servers aren't even that old (he said while setting aside his EeePC from 2008).

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

Wendel , you and Ryan need a b roll of two characters similar to the Muppets old guys in the balcony. They get cued up when you or Ryan bust out some of those awesome corny jokes or terrible transitions .

[@GiantSleepy]

texasdee slinglead I second this Stat(2)ler and _WALLdorf idea

[@CoverYourActions]

@@GiantSleepy Henson's group might let him use a B roll of Statler and Waldorf, They gave permission for the Kermit file transfer protocol.

[@dorion9111]

You didn't show TESTING AT ALL.

[@ivandedios6598]

I’ve been eying this motherboard for a while as a GPU VM rig, so I can max out virtual clients with integrated video and 10G Ethernet. Next step is SR-IOV GPUs

[@TheSimonarne]

anyone else here coming back after 4 years just having bought this cpu?

[@Zarcondeegrissom]

I would so love to have an EPYC with a Tesla V100 for 3D rendering. I'm sure not even the Tesla V100 has enough memory to cram the Stargate Atlantis city-ship into Iray, however for 3delight on the EPYC CPU that would be sweet, and for doing smaller projects on the Compute card. Very correct about the consolidation as well, cuz of the reduction in PCIe lanes intel has gotten into of late, I have no doubt many boxes exist purely due to the lack of enough lanes to put the extra stuff in fewer boxes. Great vid Wendell and crew. B)

[@hayzeproductions7093]

@ 1:15 its slower on windows because you would be using windows 10 or 7 or any other operating system that is not an windows server operating system. You could use windows 7 ultimate or windows 10 professional for the great features that come with it such as hyper V, Processors like these with lots of cores are not typically designed for gameplay work loads but more in favor for multi tasking and heavy enterprise network environments.

[@pedxing]

Surprised not to see the customary Cinebench score fall out of this video. great work!

[@IamBananas007]

Your doing the worlds good work! Thank you for spreading the word of Epyc to the masses. (4) boxes consolidated into (1).

[@cinemaipswich4636]

I have just had an experience with buying a Supermicro Motherboard, Epyc and RAM combo from China. It was cheap compared to Intel's offers. Sadly I could not get to finalizing ANY OS install, for it continuously re-booted every 2 minutes.

[@antonnym214]

Great video, as always. I like your relaxed style and presentation. Keep up the good work!

[@brianmccullough4578]

Bro your jokes aren't that bad. We still love you Wendell,your not a comedian,your tech support for tech support,that's why were here man!

[@FrankValchiria]

i saw some naples chips quite affordable even tho the spees is max 3ghz. i wonder if anyone did a dual 24core epyc workstation. is it even possible to do a dual chip built?

[@thegreatga]

This is the stuff that gets me all excited! Would love to see different setups and testing. Things like vmware, citrix, proxmox, tested for compatibility. Also would like to see all those core attempt some epyc plex testing, or some video rendering.

[@NicoDsSBCs]

That's okay. But I want more on the ARM server. What architecture does it use, which cortex are the cores, what software can do virtualisation on arm? What's the output of "7z b"? .... please. :) I review arm sbc's. I want to know how it compares to the SoC's I use. Greetings. NicoD

[@NicoDsSBCs]

x86 is stupid. Only good to heat your room in the winter.

[@Marin3r101]

No. Do your own review.

[@psychicist]

Scott McNealy called them Wintel spaceheaters :)

[@busiderbaer]

16:11 a little bit better than a Pentium Gold- wait what? I guess you mean Xeon Gold

[@martindarlington3862]

a lot of the subjects you talk about are totally above my pay grade! but love watching your videos, i pick up little bits! - hope you have a lovely Christmas, many thanks.

[@zachgilbert7402]

thanks for the great video on Epyc and touching off on how other platforms work with this cpu and getting into the bios configs , with the removable bios chips on that gigabit mobo, very neat! props to gigabit. liked and sub. thanks wendall and level1 tech for your content.

[@Teknickel_ftw]

this was an epyc video

[@supremelawfirm]

At 7:45, I saw that ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card "sneak by". Did you install your OS onto that card? If not, how are you using that card in such a marvelous system? What SSDs? Thanks, Wendell. Good stuff!

[@TheMattgwapo]

One benefit to having multiple physical boxes instead of consolidating is redundancy and ability to service a system like add memory, replace power supply, etc., without disturbing the workloads on the other machines.

[@CallMeTonyga]

thats pretty badass looking, never seen an epyc board before

[@samadhistate9637]

Great review of the mobo. How many U.2 SSD can I connect? Can I put them in RAID 1 or 10? Do I need a discrete RAID controller?

[@chrismoore9997]

I would like to see how it performs with FreeNAS and a bunch of drives on those SATA ports.. You didn't put the model numbers in the description.

[@andrewsolo2561]

Great review!! MZ01-CE0-rev-10 ... Can not find this bord on any market It's not more in production?

[@trivolous28]

Where did you buy the Gigabyte motherboard? Yesterday I was looking for an SP3 socket motherboard to build for a local cluster at school and couldn't find the Gigabyte MZ01-CE1 for sale anywhere! On the other hand the ASRock EPYCD8-2T is pretty similar in term of specs (the 4 x16 PCI-E is an important requirement) but I'm not an expert. What do you think between these two? Help? :)

[@nightwolf1966]

very informative keep up the great work and the awesome vids

[@junkerzn7312]

Expensive for a hobbyist (which is why I have a threadripper), but EPYC is pretty damned awesome. With the half the memory channels, the 2990WX can't beat it (obviously), but at least I can run the 2990WX at roughly the same high-efficiency power envelope as the EPYCs. The threadripper stuff is more in reach, price-wise. My one critique is... I really dislike sideways-mounted air cooling on expensive CPUs. Even the light ones are just too heavy. If this is going to be a server that you intend to get a lot mileage out of over the years, then don't torque the cpu socket that way. I'd just get some rack mount shelves and shove that whole case into a rack mount enclosure on its side. Problem solved (airflow will be wonky if you don't turn that cooler around, but...) I can't wait for the Zen 2 stuff to hit the shelves next year. Imagine that 7551P with 64 cores in the same power envelope as the 32-core version has now. Holy cow! -Matt

[@ajc-th5ei]

Nah, try pricing it out. You would be surprised. The MB is around $550 or 600, which is the cost of the MSI MEG Creation board, the upcoming 7371 chip, which runs 8 cores at 3.8GHz and 16 cores at 3.6GHz, is around $1400-1500 (this 7551P is $2200 whereas the 2990WX is around $1700), 8x16GB (128GB of mem) 2666MT RDIMMs are about $1450 (that is about the price of 128GB of consumer 3200MHz 8x16GB dimms), and all other costs are roughly the same from there. So motherboard is a $0-270 premium, the CPU is around $500 premium, the ram is about on point, although running at a lower speed, but also running with 4 more channels so that you have more bandwidth. Let's say instead of getting the $1400 g.skill kit you pay the $1200 for the corsair kit, then that is like $250 premium. That means you are paying between $500-1,020 more, but getting double the PCIe lanes, double the memory channels, still have forward upgrade-ability, and could add any little add-in card you could want or storage that you want. If they included a working Precision Boost Overdrive or a multiplier feature, I seriously would be in heaven, especially since I use a universal water block to cool my VRM, along with 3x480mm rads for my custom loop. I'd switch from my 1950X to that in a heart beat. But this is also talking about workstations, not servers. So, would you pay up to $1K more to have ECC, the extra PCIe lanes, more memory bandwidth, etc.? That is less than the cost of buying Intel's new 28-Core overclockable Xeon. Literally!

[@psychicist]

You can also get a dual socket motherboard and initially only populate one socket with a 16/32-core processor. With lower-end PCs I have found that you always run into limitations with RAM and I/O more so than with processing power. With a workstation/server setup you can probably pick up cheap processor and memory upgrades a few years down the line to give the system a longer lease on life rather than messing around with a dead-end Ryzen Threadripper system. I think it's a very specific product for a very specific market with slightly more power than a regular PC but not enough that you can throw the heaviest workloads at it even 10 years later. But if your workloads benefit from a mere doubling of the cores, amount of memory and PCI-E lanes, it is probably the best solution for you.

[@jakegarrett8109]

@@ajc-th5ei Pretty sure Threadripper and even Ryzen supports ECC (I think you're thinking of Intel).

[@ajc-th5ei]

@@jakegarrett8109 there are different types of ECC: registered and unbuffered. Pretty sure only Epyc supports Registered DIMMs, while the TR and Ryzen support unbuffered, unless something had changed. Also, most consumers don't buy ECC, so would compare non-ECC pricing. Worst yet is consumers don't understand bandwidth and that, even with 2666 ram, you are able to achieve nearly double the bandwidth on Epyc compared to TR, which is nearly double the bandwidth of dual channel on Ryzen, instead just focusing on ram speed due to not understanding the frequency is related to bandwidth and bandwidth is what you actually care about (along with latency). But I digress.

[@junkerzn7312]

Ryzen is 2-channel, Threadripper is 4-channel, and EPYC is 8-channel. Threadripper takes normal DDR4 or unbuffered ECC DDR4. EPYC takes registered ECC DDR4. The reason for the difference between threadripper and EPYC memory is that EPYC is designed to handle much denser sticks and the line load is just too much for unbuffered operation. Registered ECC is a clock or two slower than unbuffered ECC at the same frequency due to the latch latency. p.s. I'm almost certain that the memory controller on the CPU chip itself is the same for all three, but registered ECC requires somewhat different mobo circuitry so you can't mix and match. Also, in case people are wondering, the consumer Ryzen CPUs also support unbuffered ECC just fine. I'm using EUDIMMs on both my 2600 and my 2700X system without any issues... even on (most) motherboards that didn't support ECC when they were originally released... it now is. Linux tells me that the BIOS turned on the ECC... it does work. Over the last two years, BIOS updates have given nearly all Ryzen motherboards ECC support. However, not all BIOSes are the same. The Gigabyte BIOSes tend to be really primitive compared to ASUS, ASRock, or MSI... its hard to tell if the BIOS is turning ECC on or not. Also, for some reason, the BIOSes don't expose the memory controller MSRs when you plug APUs (like the 2400G) into the same socket. I don't know why... but its impossible to say if ECC is actually turned on or not on APU systems. Without the MSRs exposed, the memory controller can't be probed by the linux kernel. -Matt

[@rdsii64]

A push pull dual 92mm noctua threadripper cooler in a 4U chassis I already have, sounds like a winner.

[@cesarmonroy-olivares4125]

Nice vid! Do you think it outperforms Intel when running a DB server?

[@TylertheGeek28]

Great video Wendell. I wish you would do more workstation/server videos like you used to

[@anthonyrosa5006]

Good to see you Wendel. I have no idea what happened to your earlier team effort but it seems to have ended badly.

[@matthewghali2987]

One nit to pick.. you say the BMC is socketed, but at the same time you show a BGA packaged ast2500 soldered to the motherboard?

[@benjamin2339]

I love how excited you get about tech.

[@erisdiscordia5547]

Will you take a look at Epyc 2 when it comes out next year?

[@andrewe3165]

We only want to know the CPMs

[@johnm2012]

At 3:10 "...it [the P-suffix processor] will only work in single socket motherboards." Is that actually true? I realise it won't work in 2P mode but will it really not work alone in a dual socket motherboard?

[@dragonboyjazz]

- Q - "why is there a performance regression on windows and not on linux" - A - "because windows is shit!"

[@carholic-sz3qv]

B because Doors is shit

[@mrwonk]

I'm planning on building with this board next year at my office to replace our private cloud host. Love to hear how the performance is of some virtual Windows 7 systems. How responsive is Windows inside a VM on this CPU?

[@MiguelRamos-up5tf]

Does it have a sound card? They're selling a Supermicro motherboard with 7302P in a Workstation chassis with many GPU options. Is 7302P good enough? Then they add in a Sound Blaster card...

[@AI-HOMELAB]

When first configuring it, does it auto detect the GPU? I got the same configuration but get no output from the hdmi (GPU). I don't have a vga cable around - but have irdered one. Is it possible that it defaults to the vga first? I tried resetting the bios (Cmos Battery out for 5'). I also tried different Ram Modules and have it in the correct alphabetic order.

[@NaughtyKlaus]

Can you test it compiling a really big source engine map? That'd be the best benchmark you could test with all that processing power.

[@rdsii64]

I don't even need a 32 core cpu. With that said, I want one. Since its only a 180 watt cpu, a 4U compatible NH-U9-TR4-SP3 will work. Now that the 7551P is can be found used for under $600.00 US and an ATX server board is under $500.00 US. I may have to start saving my pennies. This could be a great just because I can build.

[@OtherTheDave]

I’m totally here for the “bad” jokes

[@dennisseuferling815]

I ran into a similar issue trying windows 10 on a Dell Poweredge. Most versions of Windows only support up to 32 cores across 2 procs. That is likely the issue you are having with 32 core TR.

[@Nightowl_IT]

Hi Wendel please let the editor draw frames around the chips you mean in post, otherwise it might not be obvious alle the time which chip you are referring to. Thanks 17:25 I guess the thing with the threadripper is that they haven't paid MS enough or Intel sabotaged the firmware.^^

[@jonesdarryn1]

what kind of M.2 drive are you using? this is only compatable with the tesla graphics card?

[@criptoportugal]

very nice server you have there Wendell. I love to have one on my hands, but the CPU it's too expensive, I will wait 3 ou 4 years to buy it used :) I have to keep playing with my two X5675 monster :) Merry Christmas from Portugal!

[@Gengh13]

Hi, would it be possible to update the level 1 news Playlist on the channel (adding them in order)? I am a little behind on the news, and the last episode on the Playlist is almost a year old.

[@jdjdjdif9777]

It's hard to find a shop selling that motherboard.

[@dillerdallerglor]

What are the VRM temps like under extended full load? I will be building a dual EPYC soon, and I am concerned about the airflow, since it will be in a "workstation" case, and not a high airflow rackmount case.

[@sparkyenergia]

Those sata port would be coming out of the cpu. Would be good to benchmark them to see how good they are. If you don't know AMD has a GPIO block (they do have a name for it - but I forgot it) that can be switched by the motherboard designer to be either: PCIe, Infinity fabric or SATA. Looks like gigabyte have opted to take a couple of these GPIO blocks and switch them to SATA. Consumer boards just use SATA from the chipset.

[@anda3487]

Pentium Gold 6130 :thinking: Think you mean the xeon 6130 :D

[@Level1Techs]

At xeon prices , Freudian slip? :D

[@SomeTechGuy666]

Why does nobody test multiple workloads on multi core CPUs ? Not many of us render images. But many of us run multiple tasks at once on our workstations - compiling, editing, downloading, multiple browser instances, running the GUI itself, etc. How do these mega multi core processors handle these real world multi tasking situations ?

[@-yttrium-1187]

Because the point of more cores is being able to scale a single workload to more and more cores with less downsides. Sure, instead of two 16 core systems you can have a single 32core one running multiple workloads. but unless you're running into virtualisation issues or thread scheduling problems your test is going to yield the results you are expecting. Besides, there are n*n of workloads that you can have on the same system. Which ones yield interesting results to take into account when buying this processor for those workload combinations?

[@SomeTechGuy666]

@@-yttrium-1187 I'd like to see a standardized test like using gcc to compile multiple Linux kernels simultaneously, for example. I spend a lot of my day compiling code in the background while working on other stuff on my Linux workstation. I'd love to see how these multi core processors handle that.

[@YouTubeDoxedMyRealName]

Are their any EPYC workstation motherbords at all? Can this board maybe overclock EPYC? I want a virtual server to run multiple OS including my gaming OS. I want to simultaneously run at least 5 VM's in addition to what ever VM's im just playing with (not referring to gaming for aditional VM's). Im looking to and it sounds like this board can serve multiple porposes at once including active and long term data storage, daily computing, streaming, gaming, workstation task such as auto cad and 3d design, streaming and possably more. I would really like to take my 6 computers and consolidate them into 1 system. My only real concern with this platform is clock speeds for gaming. Can I reporpose this server chip to suck power and run fast? Or do I have go brake out still yet another couple grand just for entertainment even though its 2018 going on 2019?

[@bourbonwarrior1618]

Thanks for talking about the PCIe bifurcation. It is never mentioned if it is supported on the spec sheets

[@WelshDdraig]

13:30 - from there on, I instantly started to think of Linus with his current "X people 1CPU" project with the issues he's having (or at least was having in the last video of it I saw).

[@chrisbullock7187]

So seems like the perfect EPYC / Threadripper Balance CPU is the 2770X (24 core/48 thread CPU)

[@texasdeeslinglead2401]

Where's my windows 10 optimization video? Boiler snake asked me to ask you.

[@pedro4205]

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

[@pedro4205]

It will remove all "metro" bullshit for a nice and clean windows 10

[@daviddow5591]

@@pedro4205 that's a good start, but it may remove certain appx packages that you'd want (think there are .net packages there sometimes). Also, would want a pi hole on the network, and clean up the God awful firewall rules out of the box

[@pcelis19]

Would any programmer need this at any point in their career? As a student my 8th gen i7 with 16gb of ram is great because I like to program in my VM so I can allocate 4 cpus and 6gb of Ram and the VM works perfect

[@pcelis19]

@Dimitri Findlay that's kind of the point. I am also interested in concurrency so when I get there the multiple cores will help then.

[@ashlord8190]

@@pcelis19 This is still an overkill. How often do you ever see your 8700K consume more than 10% CPU? And that thing has only 12 threads. You can throw in 64GB memory into your existing machine and run 30 VMs without issue. You will only need such density if there is a real use case, namely what Dimitri has said.

[@richardscarlett7942]

Is there any way to benchmark one of the high end Threadripper CPU's against that Un-Intel-ligent I9 9900K in an open source OS like Linux or something thats not Biased about what the brand is on the CPU? I would REALLY be interested and love to see the results of this? Im really tired of seeing skewed Data sets between AMD whether its TR or Ryzen and that other CPU business that I suspect are somehow in bed with that business Pardon my ignorance about anything non windows, but Im starting to get curious about a different OS that I feel is biased and collects / does things I dont know about or want them doing because lack of choice.

[@psychicist]

I have been wondering about this too. People are saying AMD processors don't perform as well as Intel ones but I have been running Linux primarily for the past 16 years so I can't really compare Windows performance on them. I don't have any AMD Zen-based hardware yet that should be comparable in performance to the Intel Skylake processor in my laptop. Then I could run some more proper benchmarks. In general you can find a lot of benchmarks on phoronix.com and openbenchmarking.org.

[@KrK-EST]

@Wendell Have you tried Cubes OS on it ?

[@plasticsurgeon5062]

Thank you for video! My favourite server stuff

[@Maisonier]

Every house should have 1 server like these, so the people could save their pictures here, use for domotics, all kind of sensors, autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners, cameras and security (so we don't even use keys! Cameras can detect faces and open the door when you go home, google software should be offline working in this server to give the best performance with things like google now, KZbin, IA !!! WE NEED MORE IA, a cheap tablet with android could use a Virtual Machine with Windows and work through lan/wifi ... and more.

[@wakesake]

Its Epic but wait it gets epicER btw why isnt Level1Techs team spokesmen for AMD or any other tech giant you guys/galls have been epic for well over half a decade , since back in the forum days

[@txlec99]

so bottom line is, can this CPU 32 Epyc Rome do 3D rendering work well? would it be a good option instead of the Threadreapper 32?

[@funpunx]

This is what I've been looking for. A mobo with multiple x16 slots that work at full speed. I don't want a bunch of Tesla cards. I want a bunch of nvme risers like the example you showed. Thank you!

[@lakorai2]

Bad ass. I love cutting edge enterprise equipment

[@TheSocialGamer]

Very nice and clean looking Frankin-RIG..!

[@electrosquid8325]

Could you do a dual-socket scaling analisys maybe? Or review ROCm for HPC?

[@AndreiNeacsu]

This motherboard is really impressive! I have no need for it, but that does not mean that I can't appreciate a good product. I'm still sad that Raja Koduri lied about the SR-IOV in the RX Vega and the Vega FE. I bought 3 of those with high hopes that I can have my home gaming server for the whole family. With a X2 SR-IOV I would have been happy, with a 4X, that would have brought tears of joy to my eyes. I have access to an S7150 that can be virtualized X8 or X16, but it's so weak that it's not worth doing it for anything else than basic CAD. Anyway, enough ramblings on my behalf! I still have a question: Since you have access to huge amounts of RAM and core counts, do you plan to do a test with a properly virtualized server using some AMD MxGPU hardware? I'm really itching to see how well it performs, especially that Steam does pretty good LAN streaming, but more recently, the AMD Windows drivers can stream Steam VR. Hopefully, this might spark some curiosity in you.

[@smithsmitherson3202]

Hopefully AMD will be the first to make a 4 nm Processor.

[@andrewsanders423]

Haha, "flex wire temperature sensors" are also called thermistors. I only comment because my first engineering project involved designing an apparatus for soldering thermistors like those on to boards. Good times

[@TheBibliofilus]

Oh yes, we definitely need to see some risers-splitters and then some flexible PCI-E cables to make a real frankenbuild, the issue might be finding a configurable chassis. might be interesting...

[@jakegarrett8109]

You can have GPUs hanging from zip ties (I had a Fury in crossfire like that, gave better airflow having it moved away from the other card, and it just suspended by 2 zip ties swinging around and having fun while it played games). I've also had them sitting on top of a pop-tart box and some other thing, maybe a book (it was on my test bench, so no case to suspend from, and the mATX didn't exactly have enough space for the tripple slot thick cards). I'm pretty sure I even had it just laying on a book on top of carpet at one point as well... My backup system was so lazily built, I didn't even spend 30 seconds to put it on my test bench, its just sitting bare on a wooden table (you need to move it to the left side so the Titan's bracket thing doesn't interfere with the table and lift it out of the slot, which only took me a few minutes to realize since it wasn't lighting up the "Galactic Empire" logo.

[@The_Benjamins]

You should of got Linus to use one of these for his 6 workstation 1 could build. The PCIe in this would make it so much easier

[@Level1Techs]

Epyc is to CPU lanes as Oprah is to stuff under your seat?

[@KevinSchmitt77]

@@Level1Techs YOU get a CPU lane, and YOU get a CPU lane, and YOU get a CPU lane!

[@iaial0]

Yeah I didn't get why he didn't use Epyc, maybe because his editing programs like more Intel cores than AMD idk, but boy the hassle is real

[@The_Benjamins]

@@iaial0 LTT got a lot of Intel sponsored videos, not sure if the 6 workstations one is sponsored by Intel, but I think he got the CPUs or mobo part of sponsorship. which would make sense why they are used, but AFAIK epic would of been a better choice based on the IO it gives and it can be a true 1 CPU system. But with Epyc he would have to make sure each part of the VM didnt leave the die its on, GPU NIC RAM all being used on the same die for latency.

[@iaial0]

@@The_Benjamins true, but that's not an impossible task. I remember he had a lot of trouble with his pcie expansion thing, which I don't remember the details of

[@osgnuru]

A great build. I am going to consider this for my next SOHO VM server.

[@DocDavidErickson]

How does it perform with VMware ESXi? or is it even compatible with VMware ESXi 6.5 ot 6.7?

[@turdfurguson2609]

Damn! I didn't know the fryzen would fit in a 4u case. Just ordered a noctua u12s tr4 in the hopes it would just clear my 4u lid. (Was willing to gamble it would fit, vs getting the u9s). After looking up the specs it appears the u12s is 3mm taller. Hopefully it works, I love me some puke brown fans. Kind of pissed there are no highend x399 boards without RGB madness.

[@edseit66]

Could you list out all the parts?

[@WarsunGames]

OK i am interested here. Why cant you go higher on Ram MHz?

[@moldoveanu8]

This set-up is SEX. Hopefully we see at least half that performance on Ryzen 3800x or 3700x. Really looking forward to that new video. Last time I consolidated I combined the i5 6500 with a Xeon multi core chip by switching to Ryzen 1700.

[@MrPruske]

you didnt put the cpu cooler in description like you said.

[@jasongooden917]

EPYC in a desktop case...It Just Works..

[@vincei4252]

Damnit! I wish I'd seen this video and the link to the cooler before I bought the Noctua fan and the Corsair memory I did. The memory is extra tall so I had to move the fan proud of the memory so it no longer fits over the heatsink fully by about 3/4" - 1". To top all that BS off the heatsink with the proud fan just about fits in Cooler Master MasterCase H500M case that I bought. The H500 case I would not recommend. It is the stupidest designed case I have ever had the misfortune of buying. Wanna damage your motherboard while routing power by buying this case then go ahead.

[@thomasesr]

Did you try to compare both platforms on windows 10 and windows server editions?

[@Level1Techs]

next video in the series, but the indigo result was too fascinating to leave out :D

[@thomasesr]

@@Level1Techs I'm curious to see how Windows Server would threat all those Threadripper cores...

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Maybe Linux Mint Mate 19.1 (Tessa) 64bit edition should run better on the AMD EPYC processor.

[@sethwilliamson]

Anyone have a recommendation for a source for internal PCIe riser/breakout cables if I want to take advantage of that lane splitting? I'd prefer if they maintain the x16 physical slots for maximum compatibility, but I have some applications that'd benefit from that _x16 --> x8x8_ and _x16 --> x4x4x4x4_ capability in particular.