My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB Memory

Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by aetimmes on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#20689396)

Original parent comment was talking about installing a Ryzen consumer CPU, which is generally mutually exclusive with any board manufacturer (SMC, Dell, HP, or otherwise) that provides any sort of baseboard management controller.

Some of the SMC boards listed support i3 processors, but generally, if you want a BMC, you're stuck with enterprise-grade processors.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by walterbell on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @08:23PM (#20691591)

ASRock X470D4U is a server board, with HTML5-based KVM via BMC, which uses Ryzen consumer CPUs.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by ksec on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:04PM (#20699403)

Wow, I wonder how many people knows about this? I was also expecting BMC to be EPYC, and Enterprise exclusive only.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by walterbell on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:19PM (#20701742)

It's often been sold out at Newegg, even with purchase limits. Price recently increased from $240 to $350.

No BMC license fee. Officially supports ECC UDIMM, Linux and PCIe bifurcation.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by sitkack on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:22PM (#20692474)

Mr Erbell, you made my day!

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by herpderperator on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:55PM (#20689587)

I listed two motherboards I personally researched in the past and knew about already. There are plenty of consumer Supermicro boards that have IPMI. Here's one I found just by browsing the first page of their workstation motherboard section. [0]

[0] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X11SCA-F

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by rhizome on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:36PM (#20689961)

None of yours are Ryzen, though.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bsder on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @05:21PM (#20690386)

Um, these are AMD EPYC (the server processor):

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/H12SSW-NT

All Supermicros for EPYC have IPMI.

This EPYC is $599: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16819113596?Item=N82E1681911359...

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by rhizome on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:09AM (#20693091)

I'm not disputing, just seeing: this in the page from your previous comment:

Intel® 8th/9th Generation Core i9/Core i7/Corei5/Corei3/Pentium®/Celeron® series Processor, Intel® Xeon® E-2100 Processor, Intel® Xeon® E-2200 Processor. Single Socket LGA-1151 (Socket H4) supported, CPU TDP support Up to 95W TDP

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by aetimmes on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @10:25PM (#20692220)

Right, but the distinction we're making upthread is not Intel vs AMD, it's consumer CPU vs server CPU.

You can get out-of-band management with Xeon motherboards, or with Epyc motherboards, but you're likely not going to get a motherboard with out-of-band management with a Ryzen CPU or a Core i[3579].

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by oarsinsync on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:57AM (#20696192)

But hilariously you can get IPMI with Atom motherboards

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