EPYC! 7452 AIO Home Storage/Media/Virtual Desktop Server

[IamSpartacus]

@IamSpartacus How well does moonlight work for game streaming? The website claims 4k @120 fps, but my past experience with streaming makes me skeptical. My server closet is just far enough away that using dedicated cables won't work without using a extender that compresses.

I've been super impressed with it. Granted I'm not playing any FPS or anything. I'm mainly using it for emulated games, Starcraft and some GTA games.

 

[Geran]

How come you went with Asrock Rack over Supermicro for the motherboard?

 

[IamSpartacus]

How come you went with Asrock Rack over Supermicro for the motherboard?

An extra PCIe slot and onboard M.2 slot.

 

[Stubennatter]

Hi,
nice System. Do you know the idle power without all HDD and cards or maybe with 1-2 HDD? I had a 3960x and would changed to this CPU and exchange the board. Because the idle power is too high.
Thx

 

[IamSpartacus]

At the time I posted this with the configuraton as outline in the OP the numbers were as follows:

Idle power usage with array disks spun down = 165 watts
Idle power usage with all 16 array drives spun up = 225 watts

 

[Stubennatter]

I saw. But maybe you had more values. Because my setup with 3960x, 6x16TB, 6xM2 SSD (ASUS Hyper), Nvidia GT1030, Idle 100W with no VM, with VM started 135W and I would go down to 75/80W with no VM started and with VM 100/105W. I don‘t know if this is possible with this EPYC CPU because idle clock is much lower vs. 3960x

 

[IamSpartacus]

I saw. But maybe you had more values. Because my setup with 3960x, 6x16TB, 6xM2 SSD (ASUS Hyper), Nvidia GT1030, Idle 100W with no VM, with VM started 135W and I would go down to 75/80W with no VM started and with VM 100/105W. I don‘t know if this is possible with this EPYC CPU because idle clock is much lower vs. 3960x

Sorry I have no additional numbers other than what I posted. You'd need to extrapolate from that. My system had 8 sticks of DDR4-3200 RAM, 3 GPU's , an external SAS3 HBA, and a dual 40GbE NIC for reference.

 

[Stubennatter]

no problem. I get my CPU on saturday.
My setup is now:
Epyc 7452
Asrock Rack ROMED8-T2
Kingston 128GB (4x32GB) 3200
6x16TB
6xM2 SSD (4 on ASUS Hyper)
Nvidia GT1030
USB card

idle no VM started (only Docker container and 2 HDD not in spin down)
62-68W
with one VM started 90W
that‘s perfect and is 45/55W more less as before and now with 8c/16t more