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Kinda wish there was a 3rd gen 7282 equivalent, for those of us just building their home servers. 2 sockets with <$750/CPU was kinda the sweet spot there. (..
by eqvinox 6y ago
Kinda wish there was a 3rd gen 7282 equivalent, for those of us just building their home servers. 2 sockets with <$750/CPU was kinda the sweet spot there.
(... really need to replace my 2×E5-2630v2, it's getting quite old... but I guess a 2×7282 will do.)
[Ed.: nevermind, hadn't read to the "idle consumption" graphs yet... nope, I'll stick with Rome ...]
- wmf 6y agoWhy would two weak sockets be better than a single-socket system?
- jedbrown 6y ago16 channels of DDR4-3200, versus 8 in single socket EPYC or 4 for Threadripper.
- coder543 6y agoI think someone concerned with paying "<$750/CPU" would be unlikely to want to fill 16 channels of RAM... that's a lot of money, relatively speaking. But, maybe their home server's singular purpose is to have a lot of RAM?
- eqvinox 6y agoThe memory (64GB ea) for each socket in my old server cost about as much as the CPU for the respective socket, about 550€ each. (i.e. 1100€ per socket.) For a 7282 box I'd spend about as much on the RAM as on the CPU again; 16GB DDR4-3200R sticks are about 80€ each, so filling one socket is 640€. The 7282 currently sells for ~700€ currently so that lines up all right. (This would give me 2×128GB total; 32GB RAM sticks are unfortunately indeed still a bit too expensive, especially at 3200MHz rating. But maybe I should go with 32GB and half fill each socket & fill it out later when it's cheaper...)
- eqvinox 6y agoHave you even looked at the offerings? The P-series/single socket CPUs are, at the same specs, only slightly cheaper than the dual socket ones. 2×7282 gives me 32 cores at $1300 list price. 7443P is $1337 for 24 cores. 7502P is even more expensive. Two 7282s is pretty much the best perf/power/money option as far as I can see.