Threadripper in servers?

I am currently building a mid-tier tower server and wondering if I should wait for threadripper release to stir up the pricing a little bit.
What do you think? Will it have any effect on server hardware?

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Only boards for it so far are e-atx

why buy threadripper when you can buy epyc, it sounds much cooler

for small server threadripper would be better because clocks on one socket matter?

Honestly no.
Be a good goy and buy the Intel Shit because is more proof tested. Separate some resources to buy a threadripper server when it launches and do some testing.

Because just like Ryzen its microcode will need some update, and update == downtime which is not ideal in a server.

Yes, wait for Threadripper. You'll get the slightly newer Ryzen stepping

Intel sure is proof tested
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Pls, imma stupid. What does this mean?

>mid-tier tower server
ryzen 1700 not enough?

Do you compile things with OCaml?

more I/O's maybe

No, but a Hyperthreading bug should cause more than that

Waiting for Supermicro I guess.

I wouldn't wait for threadripper to stir up pricing, I'd wait for threadripper to buy a threadripper.

For two reasons:
1. Intel won't drop prices
2. Even if they did, threadripper would still be more cost effective.

Of course, one could settle for a Gigabyte.

Your wrong. And a patch is already out, and has been.

He means Xeons.

Some Xeon is affected.

So there was/is a bug?

Actually, nothing is affected if you just update your microcode.

Shouldn't Epyc placed for entry level and mid tier servers too? If they provide a good enough alternative, prices should drop.

>no fix for a few skylake steppings
>kaby lake fix will be provided by vendors JUST WAIT

There are plenty of errata on every cpu. Skylake has half haswell does, for instance.

The patch is already out. You won't encounter the bug anyway.

threadripper is not for servers

>JUST WAIT
hahahahahaha.

It was issued in April.

>issued in april
>no fix for old skylake steppings
>kaby lake fix provided by mobo vendors - never in a few cases
You tried.

Epyc is, but than it is the same argument, just with AMD's server CPU line

People using servers are usually hooked to Xeon. Only a trendy startup with no infrastructure that somehow isn't using the cloud would try AMD

It doesn't affect older models. You can update your microcode anytime you want. And you won't run into this error if you don't compile OCaml.

So both AMD and Intel is trash?

If they provide a good alternative to Intel, people will start to buy them after a while. Somewhere they need to start.

Pricing will likely be similar between TR and Epyc, some of the Epyc pricing is insanely cheap already. Also, Epyc socket is known to support Zen2 since they stated it already. We don't know the future of the TR only socket. Buy Epyc board, get decent Epyc proc, then leave yourself available to upgrading everything later instead of dropping in a TR and having half the RAM slots, half the IO, and unknown future support.

Every cpu ever made contains errata.

What's this Intel being bug free thing about?

No one has ever claimed that except you.

>Because just like Ryzen its microcode will need some update
it's exactly the same core

Threadripper's the B2 stepping. The question is if they just updated the on-chip microcode or tweaked the actual silicon.

Did you not see the EPYC launch conference?
They have tons of buyers lined up already.

Kek I would say the reverse is true but not even trendy startups are stupid enough to go with intel

Maybe. It does support ECC and supermicro is supposedly working on server motherboards for Threadripper.

lmao ryzen doesn't even run esxi anyone wanting to build a server with these is retarded

The shills are put in full force today. Brian must have gotten mad after Intel's stock dropped just from AMD's EPYC announcement.

>esxi
Fixed on the lastest agesa.

>esxi
Yep, because every server needs access to furry porn.

>furry porn
>esxi
what?

Why not a used dual Xeon built?

I never said I would like to buy an AMD CPU for the server. All I am aiming for is a price drop when AMD releases new CPUs.

Why not predigested McDonald's?

>esxi
That thing still exists?

What do you use? Proxmox?

Was for me desu

When has a stepping not been at least a metal layer change?

It's always a metal layer change, different clocks compared to B1 guarantee it.

No ultra low power, no CUDA. A useless shite just for gaymers.

>no CUDA
Threadripper probably would score higher in CUDA operations than Titan X

Plain Libvirt+QEMU on any half-decent Linux distro, even comes with a GUI.

Oh lord.

I don't know who's more retarded.

docs.nvidia.com/cuda/floating-point/index.html

You need EFI flash as well

That's because no one else had good server CPUs.
Now amd does.