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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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