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I bought one of these and after using it for about a week I’m absolutely in love. I kept the 3945WX (and the rest of the base spec), added a W5700 and a second

I bought one of these and after using it for about a week I’m absolutely in love. I kept the 3945WX (and the rest of the base spec), added a W5700 and a second 10GbE card, then installed an AX200/BT5.1 card, second SSD, and three more DIMMs (64GB total) when it got here. Outstanding machine for the price if you can get it on discount!

ChuckNorris89 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use it for, if I may ask?
- CobaltFire 6y ago
  Honestly I was just looking to build a new PC, and this ended up cheaper (can't quote the exact price, but after the upfitting it was less than $2500 taxed and delivered) and easier than dealing with scalpers when a friend found he could (legally) offer me a discount through his company. My home PC has very little to do with my day job at this time, so I acknowledge it's complete overkill for that. However, I'm looking at needing to transition careers in a couple of years and so this will likely be used as a homelab in a box. I also game, dabble in coding (playing with a game idea in Unity right now), etc.
- AdrianB1 6y ago
  Not the OP, but I was looking to buy a couple of these for my team for database code optimization work. I have an older TR build with 128 GB or RAM, 3x nVME, 2xSSD and 3xHDD (3 tiers of storage performance) built for about $3000, so we can run almost any database from production on it and tune the code and indexes. With 8 memory channels we can go to 256GB of cheap UDIMM (32GB each) instead of using expensive high density RDIMM or LRDIMM. Also the number of PCIe connections allow for enough nVME drives, something a desktop CPU - AMD or Intel - cannot do. From my limited perspective, the 2 benefits of TR over Ryzen at low CPU count are the PCIe lanes and memory channels and slots. If you need a high CPU count then there is no other choice but TR.
  - CobaltFire 6y ago
    Please note these are restricted to RDIMMs. They are essentially rebranded EPYCs. I chose this system for exactly the reasons you listed at "low" (is 12 low now?) core counts: PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth. Also, it's just awesome.
    - AdrianB1 6y ago
      Is it limited? The CPU supports UDIMM and LRDIMM in addition to RDIMM, so if there is any restriction then it is coming from Lenovo, not from AMD.
      - CobaltFire 6y ago
        You have a point; RDIMMs were cost effective enough for me that I didn’t think to investigate further. I can see if I can scare up some UDIMMs and test, but I don’t think I have any DDR4 around.
- cartoonfoxes 6y ago
  I'm running mine in a very similar config as a lab VM host and for occasional product rendering. I would have preferred more cores, but the 3945WX is what work would buy me. The base-spec P620 is fairly cost-effective if you can find it on discount.
mvidal01 6y ago
I got one also. I'm liking it so far.

ChuckNorris89 6y ago

Out of curiosity, what do you use it for, if I may ask?

CobaltFire 6y ago
Honestly I was just looking to build a new PC, and this ended up cheaper (can't quote the exact price, but after the upfitting it was less than $2500 taxed and delivered) and easier than dealing with scalpers when a friend found he could (legally) offer me a discount through his company. My home PC has very little to do with my day job at this time, so I acknowledge it's complete overkill for that. However, I'm looking at needing to transition careers in a couple of years and so this will likely be used as a homelab in a box. I also game, dabble in coding (playing with a game idea in Unity right now), etc.
AdrianB1 6y ago
Not the OP, but I was looking to buy a couple of these for my team for database code optimization work. I have an older TR build with 128 GB or RAM, 3x nVME, 2xSSD and 3xHDD (3 tiers of storage performance) built for about $3000, so we can run almost any database from production on it and tune the code and indexes. With 8 memory channels we can go to 256GB of cheap UDIMM (32GB each) instead of using expensive high density RDIMM or LRDIMM. Also the number of PCIe connections allow for enough nVME drives, something a desktop CPU - AMD or Intel - cannot do. From my limited perspective, the 2 benefits of TR over Ryzen at low CPU count are the PCIe lanes and memory channels and slots. If you need a high CPU count then there is no other choice but TR.
- CobaltFire 6y ago
  Please note these are restricted to RDIMMs. They are essentially rebranded EPYCs. I chose this system for exactly the reasons you listed at "low" (is 12 low now?) core counts: PCIe lanes and memory bandwidth. Also, it's just awesome.
  - AdrianB1 6y ago
    Is it limited? The CPU supports UDIMM and LRDIMM in addition to RDIMM, so if there is any restriction then it is coming from Lenovo, not from AMD.
    - CobaltFire 6y ago
      You have a point; RDIMMs were cost effective enough for me that I didn’t think to investigate further. I can see if I can scare up some UDIMMs and test, but I don’t think I have any DDR4 around.
cartoonfoxes 6y ago
I'm running mine in a very similar config as a lab VM host and for occasional product rendering. I would have preferred more cores, but the 3945WX is what work would buy me. The base-spec P620 is fairly cost-effective if you can find it on discount.

mvidal01 6y ago

I got one also. I'm liking it so far.