FreeBSD 12 & DragonFlyBSD 5.6 Running Well On The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X + MSI X570 GODLIKE

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD 12 & DragonFlyBSD 5.6 Running Well On The AMD Ryzen 7 3700X + MSI X570 GODLIKE

For those wondering how well FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD are handling AMD's new Ryzen 3000 series desktop processors, here are some benchmarks on a Ryzen 7 3700X with MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE where both of these popular BSD operating systems were working out-of-the-box. For some fun mid-week benchmarking, here are those results of FreeBSD 12.0 and DragonFlyBSD 5.6.2 up against openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu 19.04.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28261

[tildearrow]

Godlike. Seriously, can somebody drop those marketing phrases? It sounds annoying.

It just doesn't feel I can use this "Godlike" motherboard for a server.
Servers aren't godlike, they're just servers.

[rhavenn]

Godlike. Seriously, can somebody drop those marketing phrases? It sounds annoying.

It just doesn't feel I can use this "Godlike" motherboard for a server.
Servers aren't godlike, they're just servers.

Just read it in the Unreal Tournament announcer voice and it'll sound better Seriously though, this isn't a server motherboard anyway. It's marketed for gamers and power user desktop systems.

[tildearrow]

Seriously though, this isn't a server motherboard anyway. It's marketed for gamers and power user desktop systems.

I know, but believe it or not I am still using this 10-year-old desktop for my server. And it's been running like that for 4 years (motherboard failed once but have replaced it).

[CochainComplex]

Just read it in the Unreal Tournament announcer voice and it'll sound better Seriously though, this isn't a server motherboard anyway. It's marketed for gamers and power user desktop systems.

even though ...i would prefer the name M-M-M-MMMONSTERKILL

[angrypie]

Godlike. Seriously, can somebody drop those marketing phrases? It sounds annoying.

It just doesn't feel I can use this "Godlike" motherboard for a server.
Servers aren't godlike, they're just servers.

It's fitting for the intended audience: manchildren who play games all day and find those names "cool" (or whatever slang for "cool" is en vogue today).

[laffer1]

I know, but believe it or not I am still using this 10-year-old desktop for my server. And it's been running like that for 4 years (motherboard failed once but have replaced it).

A lot of people use regular motherboards for smaller servers. They're cheap and you can still get a few years out of them. I prefer getting a supermicro + xeon box when i can but as of late the real money is on ryzen. There aren't a lot of single socket epyc boards and they're all in very large form factors. If you want to run ryzen in a server, it's likely going to be on a consumer motherboard. I wouldn't do this in a large business environment, but hosting my BSD project it's just fine. I've got two Asus B350 tuf boards with a ryzen 2200g and a ryzen 7 1700 in those with 32GB of RAM and one is using nvme. My third box is my old webserver which turned into a vmware esxi box for package builds on a i7 7700 with 32GB of ram. That board has always been kind of a pain with the USB and NIC not working out of the box with MidnightBSD when I bought it. At this point, it's well supported.

Since my desktop is a rzyen, it's been convenient to use the same in my servers. I've been able to upgrade my desktop once already to a 7 2700 and put the 1700 in my webserver. Socket compatibility is handy. I likely can do it one more time once the price of the 3800X comes down to MSRP.

[smitty3268]

A lot of people use regular motherboards for smaller servers. They're cheap and you can still get a few years out of them.

The godlike motherboard is not cheap. It goes for $699.