Hey Guys,
I'm working on a high end workstation build (think $20,000ish) with on board storage. We are happy with the threadripper (TR4)CPU performance for rendering video, but not happy about only having 4 PCIe slots on the motherboard. So we aren't happy with the current "gaming" motherboards which TR4 supports.
We need 5 FULL PCIe slots on the motherboard, two for GPUs, one for Kona 4 card, One for Fiber Channel HBA, and other for RAID Controller card. So really we need 5 slots but we need them to run at x8 for the HBA,RAID CARD, and Kona Card then x16 for the two GPUs. The threadripper board only has 4 PCIe slots running at full speeds. It does have a single x1 slot which is useless. We even went so far as to convert a m.2 slot into a x4 PCIe lane for the RAID controller card, but it's buggy.
Anyways, I've found a nice workstation motherboard with 6 or 7 PCIe slots all of them by 16 or x8 which is great. I'm wondering if anyone has compared the Threadripper VS the Xeon Workstation Class CPUs. They are more expensive than the Threadripper, but if say the Xeon W-2145 is equal to the ThreadRipper 1950x in terms of render speed, I'd be happy to pay the $300 or $400 more for the nicer CPU since we can get all PCIe Slots on the ASUS WS-C422 Board (see link below)
WS C422 SAGE/10G | Servers & Workstations | ASUS USA
Additionally, does anyone know if I can get an i9 CPU to run on the board above? I see the i9 and the Xexon W-2145 are both the same physical chipset (LGA 2066), but that there is a different x99 vs C422 motherboard chipsets which I'm not sure will be compatible with the workstation board.
Again, let me rephrase. I'm trying to fit an i9 processor into the asus workstation motherboard. I want to do this because it has a higher clock speed, more cores, and less cost than the Xeon workstaion CPUs, but I don't know if the i9 will work in that motherboard. But I'm asking because both the i9 and the Asus Mobo support Socket LGA2066, however on the ASUS workstation website, it specifically says it's designed for the Workstation Xeon processors.
Anyways, let me know what you guys think! Thanks.
I'm working on a high end workstation build (think $20,000ish) with on board storage. We are happy with the threadripper (TR4)CPU performance for rendering video, but not happy about only having 4 PCIe slots on the motherboard. So we aren't happy with the current "gaming" motherboards which TR4 supports.
We need 5 FULL PCIe slots on the motherboard, two for GPUs, one for Kona 4 card, One for Fiber Channel HBA, and other for RAID Controller card. So really we need 5 slots but we need them to run at x8 for the HBA,RAID CARD, and Kona Card then x16 for the two GPUs. The threadripper board only has 4 PCIe slots running at full speeds. It does have a single x1 slot which is useless. We even went so far as to convert a m.2 slot into a x4 PCIe lane for the RAID controller card, but it's buggy.
Anyways, I've found a nice workstation motherboard with 6 or 7 PCIe slots all of them by 16 or x8 which is great. I'm wondering if anyone has compared the Threadripper VS the Xeon Workstation Class CPUs. They are more expensive than the Threadripper, but if say the Xeon W-2145 is equal to the ThreadRipper 1950x in terms of render speed, I'd be happy to pay the $300 or $400 more for the nicer CPU since we can get all PCIe Slots on the ASUS WS-C422 Board (see link below)
WS C422 SAGE/10G | Servers & Workstations | ASUS USA
Additionally, does anyone know if I can get an i9 CPU to run on the board above? I see the i9 and the Xexon W-2145 are both the same physical chipset (LGA 2066), but that there is a different x99 vs C422 motherboard chipsets which I'm not sure will be compatible with the workstation board.
Again, let me rephrase. I'm trying to fit an i9 processor into the asus workstation motherboard. I want to do this because it has a higher clock speed, more cores, and less cost than the Xeon workstaion CPUs, but I don't know if the i9 will work in that motherboard. But I'm asking because both the i9 and the Asus Mobo support Socket LGA2066, however on the ASUS workstation website, it specifically says it's designed for the Workstation Xeon processors.
Anyways, let me know what you guys think! Thanks.