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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by jacquesm on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:08PM (#14564378)
I've used a dual cpu AMD Bulldozer for years (and still do), it's been rock solid and the 32 threads really helped with certain workloads. At the time the equivalent from Intel would have been far more expensive.
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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by gravypod on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:05PM (#14565215)
What board supports had dual socket FX? Those chips have come down in price to a point where it's now cheap to buy second hand systems for the price of the chip when it was released.

It would make a nice home VM server.

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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by jacquesm on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:31PM (#14565371)
It's an HP server, I don't know if they make those any more. I can look up the model number if you want, I'm sure I have the invoice somewhere.
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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by gravypod on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:36PM (#14565403)
If you wouldn't mind grabbing a model number that would be great.
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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by jacquesm on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:43PM (#14565432)
Ok, give me a moment.

edit: this is the one:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/archives_Divis...

It's a DL 385 G7.

Cpuinfo: (there's two of these but they're obviously the same)

processor : 31 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 1 model name : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6274

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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by morganvachon on Friday June 16, 2017 @06:46AM (#14567868)
Looks like they are going for around $190 used on eBay with the CPUs and RAM included (some with HDDs and some without, but personally I'd buy without and use my own SSDs). Not a bad deal for the horsepower!
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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by geezerjay on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:03AM (#14567935)
Bare in mind that nowadays there are used Opteron processors being given away practically for free. In fact, right now I have 6 Opteron 6172 sitting on my desk which I've bought off ebay for around 40€.
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Re:AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs: 32 cores, 64 threads, 8 memory channe... by jacquesm on Friday June 16, 2017 @07:19AM (#14568006)
No, definitely not a bad deal. It will also take a ton of RAM.
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