What you need is more systems!
like the 10-12x unused 2U ddr4/v4v boxes i got standing in a corner since ive never gotten around to selling them as replaced
I got a few racks worth of stuff like that which is powerd off
we have a single v4 running now I think which is beeing phased out this month, old stuff we have then are some 7302 and 7402, on h11 and h12.
2690v4 and such is impressive for singelcore still, but lack of cores, lack of gen4 and up etc.. meh
supposedly getting our first H13 stuff any day now, its apparantly been manufactured in nov. getting a few different cpu, including top F and P models.
this ebay stuff I just buy for kicks since the chinese dude seem to deliver faster than we usually can get a quote for a part. that beeing said I love our local supermicro dudes.
lab =ebay and china now it seems, and I have enough nodes to run a 15 node ceph now
prod = retail from our friends locally and official channels
honestly even a 2nd gen epyc is just more impressive, especially with powercost theese days.lots of the X12 and 3'rd genxeon like dl380plus etc IDLE at 400-450w now.... when you dont put them in the "please have no performance" powerstate... coworker has been pro amd for ages, and we started testing them out for production with h11 and epyc 2nd gen, honestly the track record for theese systems has been amazing.
a 7402 performs 'ish like a 6354 for some of the workloads... and .. its almost free in comparison