threadripper2 Dual Xeon or Threadripper for Virtualization of Windows 2003 server

[Davin Edison]

I am wanting to switch up my Windows 2003 Server with something newer. However as I read in several forums, those win 2003 server cannot run on newer hardware, therefore I am thinking about running the 2016 server then running a vm for win 2003 server.
 

win 2003 server is needed because we have a very old program for our factory that can only be run from win xp

 

 

Do you have any opinion or advices for me to do this perfectly? Approximated budget is around 1000-1500 usd

 

thank you in advance

[Enderman]

You don't need a xeon or threadripper CPU to do that...

Any CPU will do.

[Davin Edison]

I am thinking to use the ecc ram for this build. Due to the important data that is stored in the machine and also several computers will use this server as a NAS and the server will host a website in the future

 

[mcilie]

if ECC ram is a concern, then using AMD's mainstream ryzen line up will work just fine (as ryzen offers ECC support). There is no need to go up to such an expensive price tag when A) win2003 or any program on it will never utilize that many cores, and B) ryzen is way cheaper and offers the same technology (albeit less cores)

[Davin Edison]

So the new ryzen does support ecc? I just knew that..