Thoughts on Rome 7262 or 7302P for Workstation Build?

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TXAG26

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I'm looking to replace a 6 year old Xeon E3 system (4 core, 3.4GHz, 32GB) that I use as a workstation for photoshop & lightroom, and day to day tasks. I typically transition my old workstation boards into file server/backup status when they get replaced. Some single thread speed would probably be beneficial, but I think anything at 3+GHz would likely check that box. ECC memory support and IPMI are also requirements, as to why I’m looking primarily at server grade cpu/board.

A friend of mine can get me a Rome 7262 for $410, which really grabbed my eye since it has a default clockspeed of 3.2GHz and has 128MB of cache. For the price, this seems good on paper, but wasn't sure how this chip shakes out in actual use. Also looking at the $825 Rome 7302P. Any experience with either?

$410 AMD Epyc Rome 7262 (3.2 & 3.4GHz) (8C/16T) (128MB) (155/180W)
$825 AMD Epyc Rome 7302P (3.0 & 3.3GHz) (16C/32T) (128MB) (155/180W)
 
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Anything particular that you'd want from Rome platform? Otherwise you may choose to wait for Ryzen 9 or TR3.

MSRP$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (3.8 - 4.6GHz) (12C/24T) (64MB) (105W)
 

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Anything particular that you'd want from Rome platform? Otherwise you may choose to wait for Ryzen 9 or TR3.

MSRP$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X (3.8 - 4.6GHz) (12C/24T) (64MB) (105W)
I would really like to have ECC ram support, as well as IPMI, as I’d like to eventually transition this board into a server roll as it gets replaced.
 

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ECC ram support -- Do you mean Reg ECC ram? Otherwise maybe check out X470D4U?
 

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I’ll be needing to pick up new DDR4 ram with this build, so I’m good with any type, UDIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM, etc., just want to make sure it has ECC support as it may find its way into a FreeNAS server eventually.
 

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I'm looking to replace a 6 year old Xeon E3 system (4 core, 3.4GHz, 32GB) that I use as a workstation for photoshop & lightroom, and day to day tasks. I typically transition my old workstation boards into file server/backup status when they get replaced. Some single thread speed would probably be beneficial, but I think anything at 3+GHz would likely check that box. ECC memory support and IPMI are also req

$410 AMD Epyc Rome 7262 (3.2 & 3.4GHz) (8C/16T) (128MB) (155/180W)
$825 AMD Epyc Rome 7302P (3.0 & 3.3GHz) (16C/32T) (128MB) (155/180W)
See the reviews of the 7302P and the 7232P (that contains performance figures for the 7266 and 73020:
https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7232p-review-hard-to-buy-but-solid-part/
 
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I’ll be needing to pick up new DDR4 ram with this build, so I’m good with any type, UDIMM, RDIMM, LRDIMM, etc., just want to make sure it has ECC support as it may find its way into a FreeNAS server eventually.
AFAIK all Ryzen CPU support ECC ram.
 

TXAG26

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AFAIK all Ryzen CPU support ECC ram.
Ryzen looks like a good possibility, but I've done some searching and have come up short on motherboards that definitively have ECC support for Ryzen. Are there any you are aware of?
 

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AFAIK all Ryzen CPU support ECC ram.
To be clear on this, they only support unbufferred ECC RAM, which is rather more limited in capacity that the other types, and puts a likely maximum of 128gb of RAM on the system (and until recently 64gb). 32gb ECC unbufferred RAM sticks have only started appearing very recently.