AMD EPYC Launching 20 June, Are You Interested?

[maffblaster]

It would also make an absolutely fantastic gentoo machine

Oh, no! I already bought Ryzen!

[Drago]

Kernel compile speed on an EPYC vs Xeon would be very interesting.

Yes, kernel compile speed on EPYC will be EPIC!

[Osmodivs]

Must be a speed demon on Blender.

[Zucca]

Oh, no! I already bought Ryzen!

Oh no. And even Threadrippers use different socket!
But at what price and at what power consumption? Some Threadripper motherboards seem to have 2x8pin CPU power connectors.

Oh. And also: Hi. \o

[Brutalix]

But at what price and at what power consumption? Some Threadripper motherboards seem to have 2x8pin CPU power connectors.
\o

As with several of the new X299 mbs from Intel, it seems related to the number of PCI-e slots, if more than 5 then its 2 x 8 pin.

Kind regards
B.

[Brutalix]

also threadripper will feature Overclocking (some reported 5ghz with good cooling) and the server models do not feature overclocking.

The 5 Ghz mark, well we will see if it materializes, Ryzen so far hasn't done that and the early reports indicated that this would be possible..

Kind regards.
B.

[foppe]

The 5 Ghz mark, well we will see if it materializes, Ryzen so far hasn't done that and the early reports indicated that this would be possible..

Kind regards.
B.

Best I've seen is 5.3GHz or so on LN2; on water cooling about 1GHz less.

With regard to compiling on Ryzen, people on the Gentoo forums have been complaining a bit about weird/random segfaults (that I also ran across a few times while building my own kernel), see here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-...start-150.html

[qsmcomp]

Any news around CPU temperature reporting in Linux?

Using a MSI board? Try this driver:

https://github.com/groeck/nct6775

[Filiprino]

EPYC 2S workstation, renice.

[FireBurn]

You'll end up getting one of these and complain about how bad gaming performance is