$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core I9-9980XE

Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by wil421 on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:09PM (#20308370)

Yes official and guaranteed support for ECC but it was an i3-8100 instead of an AMD equivalent. For a FreeNAS build. I will upgrade it to a Xeon E-21XX or whatever supports my Supermicro C246 motherboard in the future. AMD doesn’t test ECC on Ryzen but doesn’t turn it off. Server grade components are not as common either.

Threadrippers are tempting but I like to play with EXSI and Intel’s virtualization is handy. My next desktop might be a Threadripper but my i7-7700K and Intel QSV is good enough for Plex and 4K.

I would like have a 10gb backbone with SFP+ so I can play with Fiber, DAC, and 10gb Ethernet.

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by AaronFriel on Friday June 28, 2019 @08:28PM (#20309998)

What precludes you from using ESXi and virtualization on AMD's platform? The virtualization extensions to x86 are common to both AMD and Intel. Even direct IO and IOMMU. Is there something missing?

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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by p_l on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:00AM (#20312620)

The virtualization extensions are actually different, but yeah, VMware supports both across all platforms. I think it's only AMD Hackintosh where you might have an issue?

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