Time to upgrade my homelab. It was time for my old C2750D4I Avoton server to retire as it was getting too slow for my needs. Now that a re-emergent AMD has helped give the x86 market a much needed kick in the pants, there are a lot more options than when I last upgraded the lab.
The details are :-
Whitebox home built, Ryzen 2700 based, eight core (sixteen thread) server with 64gb of ram (ASRock X470D4U motherboard). Two 2TB SSD drives provide local storage options and I plan to chuck a 10GBE card and a CUDA card into it so I can model some “big data” solutions in my lab.
This is just the first phase of my home lab upgrades as Zen2 is going to come out in a month or so and I’m looking forward to upgrading some more of my servers to Ryzen 3000 series cpus or to the Zen2 based Threadripper cpus when they hit the market.
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