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Looks good overall. I'm using the exact same motherboard main gaming PC (see my "Family Gaming PC" build in signature). If you can increase/reallocate your budget, I'd recommend spending extra on a more powerful GPU... - $329 for a Radeon 6700 XT (I have both GPUs - a 6600 and a 6700 XT, and in my experience, it's a huge upgrade over the 6600*, and well matched to a Ryzen 5600/5700). - If you can't stretch to that, a 6650 XT would still be a solid improvement over the 6600 for about half the difference. 6700 XT @ $329: sapphire-radeon-rx-6700-xt-12-gb-pulse-video-card

BTW, if you're after "cheap" Optane storage, and have open PCIE slots, then INTEL 900P OPTANE 280GB PCIE3.0x4 are currently avaialble for < $60 USD .

Glad to hear it. Gives me a little bit of confidence that my board will post once I get the cooler and RAM. I'm still running Proxmox 7.x on my existing server, but will spend a few weeks testing/"playing" with the new Epyc system and Proxmox VE 8 before switching my VMs, etc... I was also thinking of building a small Proxmox / Ceph cluster (for learning / testing) using the Epyc system as the main node, and a couple of my old/spare Zen1 Ryzen AM4 systems, for 3 nodes in total.. ( I did it a year a so ago - as a proof-of-concept - on Prxomox v7.0, used Mellanox 40 GbE NICs with DAC cables, and using the 3 old Zen1 Ryzen systems I have sitting unused. ) I can document that effort in another thread if anyone is interested... I'm in the same boat in terms of wanting / needing more PCIE lanes, and have been considering building a Threadripper/Epyc system for a number of years because of that. AM5 / X670E board layout rant: That's what finally convinced me to build a Thread ripper 5000x/Epyc Milan system to replace my 3950x system. I was always going for 24 cores, and filled many online shopping carts with components for potential builds but, luckily I waited. Once I saw the Epyc 9224 price, and DDR5 pricing seemed to reduce a bit, I decided now was a good time... You have more skill and confidence than me! Happy to see you have it all working. Air cooling is always the primary path for me; I generally try and stay as far away from water cooling as I possibly can... If you don't mind me asking, what are your CPU temps and power consumption at idle and under full CPU load? Do you have any concerns about VRM temperatures? I've actually only ordered two 16 GB DIMMs so far (~$80 each), as I want to make sure the system works properly before I invest a lot more money. (and I'm hoping that DDR5 ECC pricing will decrease as every day passes... ). Working with all-new (to me) socket/CPU/RAM is scary... All my other systems (with the exception of my mainAM5 workstation) are AM4 / DDR4, and I'd forgot how nice it was to have spare CPUs, motherboards, RAM and coolers sitting around for testing and troubleshooting...

Sounds like a nice build. Is your system set-up? How is it performing? What OS are you using as the hypervisor? I'm in process of ordering/receiving parts for the Epyc Genoa system I'm building, that's based around the same motherboard (to replace my existing virtualization server, featuring a Ryzen 3950x with 64 GB ECC RAM running Proxmox). I have motherboard and CPU in hand, and already had case, PSU, NICs and gfx cards, but waiting on the cooler and RAM. What cooler did you end up picking? Doesn't look like Noctua has any compatible air coolers yet... so stuck with server options... or unknown brands from China. I went both routes, since they are ~$50 each. I've ordered: - a Dynatron J12 3U cooler, knowing that it will be noisy under load, but planning to have the machine located in the basement anyway (after playing around with it for a few days as a Workstation first).... - and a 4U tower cooler (via AliExpress). For RAM, I've ordered some of these Samsung (M321R8GA0BB0-CQKEG), at $275 each, since they were the cheapest 64 GB modules I could find that were on the AVL.

The CPU/GPU for the IVI [in vehicle infotainment] system is almost certainly a totally different ECU / hardware box than the central "computer" that controls the safety related systems and self driving, etc.... Combinnig them would be a security/safety nightmare.... [then again, this is Musk / Tesla] Tesla was already way ahead of their competition on the core computer - that Jim Keller helped design/architect - rival OEMs were literally shocked by the capabilities of the system in the Model 3.... see this article. Now it looks like their way ahead of other car manufacturers on IVI - most of their competion is using embedded NXP or Qualcomm SOCs with a stripped down & security hardened Android based OS.... if this is truly a PS5/XBox Series X level of APU/SOC, then they are 5 or 6 years ahead again...

According to this AdoredTV article, Intel’s Xe Graphics project, the Xe team and the discreet GPU based products are already effectively dead before they even launch the first Discrete graphics card. Also, it’s rumored that Raja Koduri is leaving Intel within the next few months. Overall, it’s incredible stuff if true, especially on top of all Intel’s CPU [manufacturing] woes, and Jim Keller’s premature departure. It really does like Intel is in big trouble, and is going to need a very dramatic turn around...

Nice. I really hope these become available in retail channels soon.

Lenovo is predicted to be announce new [Threadripper Pro based] Workstations next week on 7/14, the same date that these Threadripper Pros are expected to be announced...