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.
On the desktop Intel has better memory controllers last time I looked, but it’s not that big a difference. Something in your setup is just broken. Failures will happen with any brand, so I wouldn’t chalk it up to AMD vs Intel… figure out where your problem is and get the faulty part replaced if you can.
I feel you though, regardless of the cause, that is an extremely frustrating place to be.
Yea I’m just bummed because it’s a real expensive time to be swapping memory parts around. Like I said, things seem to just work without memory context restore so I’m fine with just paying the cost when I reboot once a week or whatever. I feel like the fact that disabling MCR fixes it should narrow down the issue to some part, I’m just not sure which.
That's the problem, I have no idea. The fact that disabling MCR fixes it should point to something, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what.
> It is, but isn’t it all warranty in your scenario?
There are numerous recent stories of companies refusing to make good on their warranties and instead offering customers a refund for the original price paid. One example: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-refuses-to-replace-large-hard-drives-under-warranty-the-company-offers-refunds-at-the-purchase-price-not-the-post-shortage-price" rel="nofollow">https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-refu...
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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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I feel you though, regardless of the cause, that is an extremely frustrating place to be.
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It is, but isn’t it all warranty in your scenario?
It would be painful to claim though, as what part is at fault?
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There are numerous recent stories of companies refusing to make good on their warranties and instead offering customers a refund for the original price paid. One example: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-refuses-to-replace-large-hard-drives-under-warranty-the-company-offers-refunds-at-the-purchase-price-not-the-post-shortage-price" rel="nofollow">https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/toshiba-refu...