[gcells]

I am planning on making a home-server. Any suggestions for EPYC boards?

[_JamesA_]

I just built my first AMD machine since the Athlon days with an ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T [0] motherboard and an AMD EPYC 7281 CPU [1].

I upgraded a VMWare ESXi server hosting FreeNAS from a consumer motherboard with an Intel Core i7 3930K and it was completely painless.

[0]: https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=E...

[1]: https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7281

[gcells]

I've used a lot of ASUS desktop boards and never have been disappointed. However I have heard that they stop pushing BIOS updates for older boards. Have you faces such an issue?

My current HP home-server has been with me for ~10years

[kop316]

If you are running only open source software, you may want to consider this:

https://www.raptorcs.com/

[walrus01]

Starting at $5800? For 5800 I can build one hell of a threadripper or epyc system with nvme storage.

I've been seeing people try to make power architecture (ibm) servers a thing for 12+ years now, it never happens, because ordinary developers can't afford them. Compared to what you can put under your desk for a thousand bucks based on any Intel or amd, amd64 architecture system .

Or this? https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL2B01/intro.html

$2700 and probably is outperformed by a $150 ryzen cpu on a $110 motherboard.

[mizzack]

Depending on what you're using it for, I would take a look at Threadripper too. There are some crazy deals right now. If you don't IPMI and registered ECC, it's a great option for a ton of cores and PCIe lanes.

[kllrnohj]

Threadripper and Ryzen both have ECC support.

[cyphar]

I'm setting up a home server and decided to just go with Ryzen. You get a bunch of server features (ECC RAM, lots of PCIE lanes, and lots of cores) for a lot less cash than the equivalent EPYC build.

Obviously EPYC has a place but for the home usecase you could use a Ryzen as a substitution for Intel Xeons because of the baseline features of Ryzen.

[kllrnohj]

Ryzen only has 20 PCIE lanes, it's not that much. Basically the same as Intel since Intel uses DMI 3.0 (basically pcie x4) for communication to the chipset. So on Ryzen you get 16x lanes directly to CPU + 4 to chipset where it multoplexes, and on Intel you get 16x lanes directly to CPU + dmi3 to chipset which multoplexes to pcie.

Threadripper has 64 lanes, though, which is definitely a lot.

[formichunter]

Be aware of the fun with numa nodes and AMD. https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/9ngwzf/amd_epyc_on_esx...

[mfatica]

Do you need Ryzen Pro for ECC?