Love this board and AMD so far - haven't had an AMD processor since K5 days. I was coming from a Xeon E3 v1 for my home server so the performance is simply incredible. I move my Proxmox boot to two mirrored Samsung 970 NVMEs. Got to remove a 10gb ethernet card since the Asrock board has an Intel X550 controller. I have only one PCIe card now - an LSI HBA for the 15 hot swappable 3.5" drives in the front. Everything squeezes nicely into my old Lian Li PC-A17B tower case which is only 19 inches deep. I went with the Supermicro Epyc active cooler and I haven't seen temps above 52C with a full stress test. I plan to pick up an NVidia card for Plex transcoding at some point depending on CPU performance.
I would have easily spent double to get something close from Intel. My hope is this server will last 8 years - maybe get a Zen 3 upgrade 4-5 years from now.
MB: Asrock Rack ROMED8-2T
CPU: Epyc Rome 7302P (16 core)
RAM: 4 16GB sticks of 2933Mhz I had from a server that got upgraded.
Boot: 2 x 1TB NVMe
Rust drives: 10 x 8TB + 1 spare
I would have easily spent double to get something close from Intel. My hope is this server will last 8 years - maybe get a Zen 3 upgrade 4-5 years from now.
MB: Asrock Rack ROMED8-2T
CPU: Epyc Rome 7302P (16 core)
RAM: 4 16GB sticks of 2933Mhz I had from a server that got upgraded.
Boot: 2 x 1TB NVMe
Rust drives: 10 x 8TB + 1 spare
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