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This talk about using Ryzen as a server platform both excites me and concerns me. My biggest concern is over the possible use of ECC RAM. Depending on where you look, you get different stories:- https://www.cgdirector.com/do-you-need-ecc-memory/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...n_ecc_support/
- ...and many more but I am too lazy to list here...
- Asus Pro WS X570-ACE motherboard
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 (100-000000073)
- v-Color 64GB (4 x 16GB) ECC DDR4 2666MHz (PC4-21300) VLP CL19 2Rx8 (TE416G26D819VK-VKC)
From what I've read on the Internet, this RAM seems to be THE go-to sticks for a DIY Ryzen/Threadripper/EPYC ECC build: Kingston Server Premier 32GB 3200MHz DDR4 ECC CL22 DIMM 2Rx8
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I'd love to buy one of these boards, but in europe, only the non-10G version is available. And at exorbitant prices...
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Originally posted by trueblue View PostI bought a ryzen pro 5650g from this vendor (www.groves-inc.com) in January. It cost about $310. The only problem is that it took about 3-4 weeks to get from Germany to Tennessee. Not too bad for having to go through customs, and Covid was at its peak in the US. Here is the link for the 5750g.
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The only misgiving I have is when the 5600X was benchmarked against the 5600G, the X had a very consistent margin over the G. So, if I'm going to use a motherboard with a BMC, then I'll probably stick with an X-series.
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Originally posted by CochainComplex View Post
any good source for Pro APUs? once got scamed by aliexpress "200GE Pro" ...
Overall, I was happy with the experience, and the ordered price was equal to suggested retail + local taxes. They included all the shipping and custom fees in the price. I would have ordered from a US vendor but no one had it in stock to ship immediately. I went from a 2400g (non-pro) to the 5650g with ECC memory. The memory is detected as ecc by linux, but I think kernel 5.17 will be the best kernel to use with the pro 5000g series.
The graphics performance is quite adequate for my use case, as I am not a gamer. My only regret is that I did not go ahead and spring for the 5750g.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostAt the moment the server motherboards seem to principally be ASRock Rack but I am told much more is on the way.
I would really like to upgrade my fileserver to a X570 server/workstation board + Ryzen 5700X. Admittedly, I could go a little lower on the CPU, but I like an option that gives me good versatility within a 65W power envelope.
One nice thing about a BMC chip is that it means I don't need to add a dGPU. And you can't just go with an APU if you want ECC memory.
I originally built this fileserver with a $165 ASUS AM2+ server board and a $120 Phenom II CPU. Not only did it support ECC memory, but the BIOS even supported patrol scrub, which slowly walks through memory and checks for parity errors. And, for the time, it was a little unusual to have 6 SATA 3 ports. It's been a great machine, these past dozen years or so, but as I upgraded the storage and NIC, I now feel like the CPU could be holding it back.
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostAlso older Ryzen CPUs have hardware bugs that prevent SME from working as expected. There used to be conflict between SME and amdgpu (but not radeon or nouveau etc.) drivers, but I understand that this was worked around so it at least no longer fails non-gracefully. About APUs I don't know.
Perhaps agd5f can tell how it is exactly.
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Originally posted by skeevy420 View PostThat's nice to know and confirms what I've read; about how it all comes down to whether or not the firmware will support those features.
Also older Ryzen CPUs have hardware bugs that prevent SME from working as expected. There used to be conflict between SME and amdgpu (but not radeon or nouveau etc.) drivers, but I understand that this was worked around so it at least no longer fails non-gracefully. About APUs I don't know.
Perhaps agd5f can tell how it is exactly.
Originally posted by yaneti View PostTheoretically one could use a DASH enabled motherboard + Ryzen PRO CPU to get the same oob-management "server" experience - and they come cheaper than the ASRockRacks with built-in ASpeed BMC.
Unfortunately the only motherboards with DASH that seem to be available are the ones with Realtek nics (eg. ASRock A520M-HDVP/DASH). It looks like DASH support under Linux seems to be an afterthought (or actively-hostile-thought) for both ASRock and Realtek. The latter don't publicly document their chips so its hard to know how to talk to the OOB engine there.
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Originally posted by onlyLinuxLuvUBack View PostMichael
>> and the WattsUp Pro external power meter no longer working with the latest Linux kernels due to some USB serial driver regression.
I don't understand why you didn't just use separate older/compat machine/box/tower to run the linux version that has a kernel that works with the power meter ?
then run a scp at the end of test to get the power log
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