- Posts: 670
- Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:50 am
Hey all,
I am looking to build a new rig in a few months mostly for editing/rendering purposes, maybe some gaming and running a VM or two as well.
My dilemma is for the money and what you get, it seems to me like EPYC with 32 cores/64 threads for $200 or so more than a Threadripper CPU would be the better bang for buck, not to mention 128 PCIe lanes. I realize it is a server cpu, but in the past I recall XEON being server cpus for a while, and at the time video workstations that pros used were often built with dual XEON cpus.
So I am wondering if anyone has done much research yet in to EPYC and if it would be a viable editing/rendering cpu, or if there are things that will prevent it from being an alternative. For example, will the motherboards/chipsets support Thunderbolt 3, and will high end GPUs (e.g. Titan, workstation GPUs, etc) work well with EPYC, or is this a CPU that is destined to be used in data centers to run large cloud/vm farms and nothing more?
If it is viable, is it worth the extra $$$ to get the dual cpu setup, even if I were to get one CPU now? The dual socket cpu is quite a bit more though, so it would only make sense if a dual CPU setup with say 3 or 4 GPUs would be usable by Resolve and Fusion.
I am looking to build a new rig in a few months mostly for editing/rendering purposes, maybe some gaming and running a VM or two as well.
My dilemma is for the money and what you get, it seems to me like EPYC with 32 cores/64 threads for $200 or so more than a Threadripper CPU would be the better bang for buck, not to mention 128 PCIe lanes. I realize it is a server cpu, but in the past I recall XEON being server cpus for a while, and at the time video workstations that pros used were often built with dual XEON cpus.
So I am wondering if anyone has done much research yet in to EPYC and if it would be a viable editing/rendering cpu, or if there are things that will prevent it from being an alternative. For example, will the motherboards/chipsets support Thunderbolt 3, and will high end GPUs (e.g. Titan, workstation GPUs, etc) work well with EPYC, or is this a CPU that is destined to be used in data centers to run large cloud/vm farms and nothing more?
If it is viable, is it worth the extra $$$ to get the dual cpu setup, even if I were to get one CPU now? The dual socket cpu is quite a bit more though, so it would only make sense if a dual CPU setup with say 3 or 4 GPUs would be usable by Resolve and Fusion.
Custom DIY AMD1950x 16-core/32-thread, liquid cooled, 64GB 3600Mhz RAM, 950Pro-512GB NVMe os/apps, 2x500GB 850 Evo RAID 0 SATA3, Zotac 1070 8GB video, USB 3.1Gen2 RAID0 2x4TB, 2x2TB Crucial MX500 SSD SATA3.