Need advice: It's time to upgrade my Xeon E3-1230 v1 home server. Current: ESXi, ZFS storage pools, video streaming server, a few VMs. Would like something that I can eventually offload archival video transcoding from my Xeon W workstation. A family member wants to do some basic machine learning stuff at home instead of on AWS - a mix of scikit-learn and tensorflow. Components needed to purchase are: ATX motherboard, ram and processor+HSF. Planning to make the jump to Proxmox with the new build.
Thinking of getting a ~$500 6-8 core Epyc or Xeon Scalable Silver now with hope of upgrading to something more powerful in a year or two as our needs grow. Looking for advice on whether to go AMD or Intel. It seems like the new AVX512 instructions show some performance advantages in video transcoding. Seems like the used scalable market will be larger as companies upgrade to newer platforms down the road. This has me leaning towards an Intel Silver 4108 and 64gb ddr4.
Would Epyc be a better option for long term upgradeability? Will I get more bang for the buck now? Would like to spend less than $1500 now and hopefully add additional ram and upgrade the processor down the road.
Thinking of getting a ~$500 6-8 core Epyc or Xeon Scalable Silver now with hope of upgrading to something more powerful in a year or two as our needs grow. Looking for advice on whether to go AMD or Intel. It seems like the new AVX512 instructions show some performance advantages in video transcoding. Seems like the used scalable market will be larger as companies upgrade to newer platforms down the road. This has me leaning towards an Intel Silver 4108 and 64gb ddr4.
Would Epyc be a better option for long term upgradeability? Will I get more bang for the buck now? Would like to spend less than $1500 now and hopefully add additional ram and upgrade the processor down the road.