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sshapiro63
07-16-2023 at 07:51 AM.
07-16-2023 at 07:51 AM.
This seems like a good solution for a TrueNAS Scale server. The board supports 16 SATA devices and multiple GPUs in case passthrough to one or more virtual machines is needed.
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07-16-2023 at 09:31 PM.
07-16-2023 at 09:31 PM.
I always wanted a "Threadropper" pro.
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07-17-2023 at 02:29 PM.
07-17-2023 at 02:29 PM.
These are Zen 2 cores if anyone has that question.
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nzalog
07-17-2023 at 09:22 PM.
07-17-2023 at 09:22 PM.
Don't know about the proc but Gigabyte is the only brand hardware that I've had to RMA in a long time. Would not want to use this in something I care about.
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fawzi
07-17-2023 at 09:27 PM.
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Any case that supports 16 hard drives ?
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highonfire
07-17-2023 at 10:28 PM.
07-17-2023 at 10:28 PM.
If your first reaction to this is "wow! I want but it's so expensive" this is not for you. BTW, that's my reaction.
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07-17-2023 at 11:57 PM.
07-17-2023 at 11:57 PM.
Can this run minesweeper and myspace?

Seriously, though... Whats this for in a house?
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sshapiro63
07-18-2023 at 12:19 AM.
07-18-2023 at 12:19 AM.
Quote from fawzi :
Any case that supports 16 hard drives ?
Here are a few:

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-xl-dark-tempered-glass/dark-tempered... [fractal-design.com]

https://www.fractal-design.com/pr...dark-tint/

This is a new one. It can hold 10 hard disks and 11 SSDs:

https://www.phanteks.com/Enthoo-Pro2-Server.html
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07-18-2023 at 06:08 AM.
07-18-2023 at 06:08 AM.
Quote from ghostfreckle :
Can this run minesweeper and myspace?

Seriously, though... Whats this for in a house?
For raw power this cpu is lacking compared to the 16 core intel version (the 13700) and you can get that for a fraction of the price of this. This kit would be just for a build where you really need a huge amount of ram (talking 512gb or more), many pcie cards or disks. Maybe a 4k/8k video editing rig with many hundreds of TB of ssd. In general no home user would buy this, even for a 4k streaming hub (serve movies within the home) this is hugely overkill.
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07-18-2023 at 06:58 AM.
07-18-2023 at 06:58 AM.
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For raw power this cpu is lacking compared to the 16 core intel version (the 13700) and you can get that for a fraction of the price of this. This kit would be just for a build where you really need a huge amount of ram (talking 512gb or more), many pcie cards or disks. Maybe a 4k/8k video editing rig with many hundreds of TB of ssd. In general no home user would buy this, even for a 4k streaming hub (serve movies within the home) this is hugely overkill.
If you look at the block diagram on the Gigabyte website, you can see how much direct access devices get to the CPU. Latency should be very low. I believe there are 128 lanes into the CPU, vs. around 20 for a typical desktop system. Each on the PCIe slots has direct access to the CPU, along with both 10GB Ethernet ports, both M.2 slots, and several of the USB ports. If someone wanted to add additional M.2 SSDs, I think six out of seven of the PCIe slots could run four drives at full gen 4 speed via an adapter.

This probably would not be a great choice for most home users, but it could be a great solution for someone who wants to have a single home or small business server that could provide centralized disk space and backup, virtual machines, etc. This motherboard and processor, while not the latest technology, could provide a lot of value for many years in certain use cases.

I am tempted to get this, but the memory I want would probably cost another $600. It's not a cheap solution, but if nothing breaks, it would be a workable system, to me, for many years.
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07-18-2023 at 07:24 AM.
07-18-2023 at 07:24 AM.
Quote from sshapiro63 :
If you look at the block diagram on the Gigabyte website, you can see how much direct access devices get to the CPU. Latency should be very low. I believe there are 128 lanes into the CPU, vs. around 20 for a typical desktop system. Each on the PCIe slots has direct access to the CPU, along with both 10GB Ethernet ports, both M.2 slots, and several of the USB ports. If someone wanted to add additional M.2 SSDs, I think six out of seven of the PCIe slots could run four drives at full gen 4 speed via an adapter.

This probably would not be a great choice for most home users, but it could be a great solution for someone who wants to have a single home or small business server that could provide centralized disk space and backup, virtual machines, etc. This motherboard and processor, while not the latest technology, could provide a lot of value for many years in certain use cases.

I am tempted to get this, but the memory I want would probably cost another $600. It's not a cheap solution, but if nothing breaks, it would be a workable system, to me, for many years.
For central storage or backup, building a 10 gig storage server can be done far cheaper than this. It's also an absolute power hog compared to a dedicated 10 gig NAS device. The only use that would really push those specs is running several virtualized workloads, not something a home user would do unless you're running a home lab and want basically the power of 4 or 6 desktops crammed into one desktop.
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07-18-2023 at 07:44 AM.
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Quote from joebob2000 :
For central storage or backup, building a 10 gig storage server can be done far cheaper than this. It's also an absolute power hog compared to a dedicated 10 gig NAS device. The only use that would really push those specs is running several virtualized workloads, not something a home user would do unless you're running a home lab and want basically the power of 4 or 6 desktops crammed into one desktop.
Yeah, I agree. I built a file server, with dual 10GB Ethernet, from an old desktop system recently. It works fine and the cost, since I had the parts from other projects I worked on a few years ago, was very low. I do have several desktops (Windows and Linux), and the idea of integrating everything into one system using virtual machines with GPU passthrough, is attractive. But the trade off is I would be stuck with older technology and lower performance over the next few years. Every solution has benefits and drawbacks. The benefit of staying with consumer grade equipment is that it isn't too costly to replace after a few years, compared to workstation and server grade hardware costs.
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