pillagenburn
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So I really don't like Intel as a company and I'm finally looking to try to get rid of my server's Intel hardware and downgrade to an Opteron 6300 series setup (or ryzen) and am willing to accept the performance/efficiency penalty.
I have a pair of Xeon e5-2651 v2's on an Intel s2600cp motherboard with 64GB ECC DDR3 in my main server. This runs ESXi and does the following types of things:
Media/streaming server
Blue Iris + recording
router (incl dhcp etc)
compiling code
large bash scripts
Other stuff that stresses the CPU
My question is: How horrendously bad do you all think it would be going back to a pair of 16-core Opteron 6300 CPU's for the types of usage above? Namely the Opteron 6366 because it's lower clocked and probably the most efficient of the Opterons... and they're $20 a piece or less.
The other, much more expensive, idea was a single Ryzen 1700 with 32GB ECC DDR4 on that new microATX asrock board that has IPMI .... then upgrade to 16-core later. This would run less than half the power consumption and would destroy on single threaded tasks though cost a LOT more. Also may have compatibility issues with esxi.
-Opteron cost:
dual 6366's $30
board: $70
RAM: 0 (i already have)
-Ryzen cost:
Ryzen 1700: $150
Asrock board: $270
32GB ECC DDR4 2666: $150-200
thoughts?
edit: and yes I require IPMI
I have a pair of Xeon e5-2651 v2's on an Intel s2600cp motherboard with 64GB ECC DDR3 in my main server. This runs ESXi and does the following types of things:
Media/streaming server
Blue Iris + recording
router (incl dhcp etc)
compiling code
large bash scripts
Other stuff that stresses the CPU
My question is: How horrendously bad do you all think it would be going back to a pair of 16-core Opteron 6300 CPU's for the types of usage above? Namely the Opteron 6366 because it's lower clocked and probably the most efficient of the Opterons... and they're $20 a piece or less.
The other, much more expensive, idea was a single Ryzen 1700 with 32GB ECC DDR4 on that new microATX asrock board that has IPMI .... then upgrade to 16-core later. This would run less than half the power consumption and would destroy on single threaded tasks though cost a LOT more. Also may have compatibility issues with esxi.
-Opteron cost:
dual 6366's $30
board: $70
RAM: 0 (i already have)
-Ryzen cost:
Ryzen 1700: $150
Asrock board: $270
32GB ECC DDR4 2666: $150-200
thoughts?
edit: and yes I require IPMI
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