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Some other comments mentioned lower frequency of EPYC, but I'll add another point, the motherboards on EPYC are built for a datacenter environment where you run
by bick_nyers 3y ago
Some other comments mentioned lower frequency of EPYC, but I'll add another point, the motherboards on EPYC are built for a datacenter environment where you run very loud fans and shove a crap ton of air through the system. Threadripper has larger heatsinks on VRM and chipsets and whatnot on the motherboard so that you can use quieter fans, like on Ryzen.
- MenhirMike 3y agoRelevant to that, a lot of EPYC (and server boards in general) also have the CPU socket rotated 90 degrees compared to non-server boards to support that "Back to Front high airflow" scenario. (That said, a Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 still fits perfectly fine on a ROMED8-2T, but in a regular ATX case, the fan will blow towards the top of the case, not the back - so you need to have an exhaust at the top.)