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I have no horse in the CPU race but I do have a different perspective here. I have a SFF home server with <100W cooling. I am compute-bound, have no discrete G
by millstone 6y ago
I have no horse in the CPU race but I do have a different perspective here. I have a SFF home server with <100W cooling. I am compute-bound, have no discrete GPU, and have no interest in Meltdown as I run only trusted code. My box sports a 6-core i7 8700, and I am tempted by the 10-core i9 10900.
Why not AMD? Answer: iGPU. AMD's best iGPU offering seems to be the Ryzen 9 4900HS, which has fewer cores, and you can't just order it - it seems to be for OEMs only. So staying with Intel.
- streb-lo 6y agoWhy do you need an iGPU for a home server? Compute? Wouldn't a discrete GPU be worth it in that case?
- millstone 6y agoThe stupid answer is that a GPU is needed to get past POST. I need graphics to boot, and nothing more. AMD has a "NUC-gap". At the high end, there's Epyc2 datacenter offerings, and going low there's the embedded line. And every device in between either assumes a discrete GPU (Ryzen 7) or is a wimp (G-series). I built a beefy NUC-alike based on an Intel chip, because AMD has no offerings here. Google "Ryzen NUC" and the demand is evident.
- trynumber9 6y agoI have a home server running a R7 1700 with no IGP or graphics card. It posts perfectly fine. Have you tried?