I Picked a threadripper for a box that needed a lot of IO and figured that with that many PCI lanes I couldn't go wrong. But I have to admit I've been more than pleasantly surprised by the performance of the CPU as well, it - easily - outperforms all of the XEON and I7 based boxes that I have. The only thing I wished I would have done different is to max it out with 256G DIMMs when they weren't the price of a car.
Zen 5 really is nice. I swapped my RAM from a Xeon W Sapphire Rapids machine into a Threadripper Pro 9000 series machine and I get almost double the memory read performance, plus it's a heck of a lot faster in single and multi core performance, and it runs cooler and quieter. Huge win all around. Aside from the price... (I went from Xeon W5-3435X to TR Pro 9985WX, eep.)
I have the complete opposite experience. Got a 9550x with 64gb ddr5 and a fairly high end mobo about two year ago. Just running the memory at stock speed. About 50% of the time I’d reboot and one or both of the sticks would only be detected as 2gb. Would need to do a hard shutdown to get it back.
I eventually gave up and turned off memory context restore and now I just deal with the minute plus (!) time to Post.
Not sure if amd memory controllers are just garbo or what but I’m going back to intel next chance I get.
Yea I’ve done endless googling around the issue and it seems to be a not uncommon issue with ddr5 but there’s no way I’m buying new parts now so I’ve come to peace with it.
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I eventually gave up and turned off memory context restore and now I just deal with the minute plus (!) time to Post.
Not sure if amd memory controllers are just garbo or what but I’m going back to intel next chance I get.
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Up to date on bios updates?
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DDR5 has been kind of a mess imo, just in general.
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