CAN YOU USE THREADRIPPER OR THREADRIPPER PRO AS THE CPU INSTEAD OF EPYC IN "WHOLE HOUSE, ONE CPU" PROJECT V2?

[crenierroy_ltt_2005]

Budget (including currency): > $7,000

Country: PHILIPPINES

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: GAMING, WORKSTATIONS, NAS

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

CPU: AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER 3970X OR AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER PRO 3975WX

MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE TRX40 AORUS XTREME OR AMD WRX80 Ryzen™ Threadripper™ PRO

RAM: 64GB DDR4-3600MHZ KIT (8X8GB)

STORAGE: 4X SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB + 4X SEAGTE 10TB BARRACUDA 7200RPM HDD

GPUS'

1. NVIDIA RTX 3070

2. NVIDIA RTX 2070 SUPER

3. NVIDIA RTX 2060 SUPER 2X

PSU: Seasonic Prime GOLD 1300w 80+ Full Modular

CASE: LIAN LI O11DXL-X O11 DYNAMIC XL ROG CERTIFIED ATX FULL TOWER CASE

 

Edited April 4, 2021 by crenierroy_ltt_2005
LACK OF OTHER PC PARTS

[Drama Lama]

Threadripper is just a consumer version of epyc with less ram and PCIe support. Threadripper Pro is basically normal threadripper with support for more ram because that was the biggest critc about normal threadripper

[Jurrunio]

Why not, but you lose some PCIe lanes in the process and wont be able to power as many graphics cards. Threadripper Pro, just like Eypc, can't overclock however.

[pythonmegapixel]

Woah, cool it on the capslock!

 

Are you actually wanting to make this build or i it a suggestion for LTT?

[CommanderAlex]

Welcome to the forums!!!

 

As long as the CPU socket supports Threadripper as well as having BIOS compatibility, I don't see a reason why not. Also, are you trying to make a build or is this a video suggestion, which can be posted in this thread??? 

 

As others have stated, Threadripper is a consumer version of EPYC, so less PCIe lanes and lower max GB of RAM. 

[Drama Lama]

if the point of this thread is to make a suggestion for LTT, do it here:

 

[manikyath]

what is with people asking about these ridiculous unraid setups so much lately..

 

- it's a terrible value unless in VERY specific circumstances

- you need to have an extra usb controller to pass trough to each VM to make usb device management somewhat bearable

- you're tied to having every 'workstation' squeezed together on one desk, because cable length isnt infinite

- this system will be LOUD, because cases only come so big, and you *will* have GPU's squeezed together fighting for air.

- GPU passtrough is fairly reliable, but the drivers can be very touchy-feely, and nvidia has basicly stated that they will not support this on geforce cards. (it may work.. it may just not. there's plenty of issues on the unraid forums where GPU's just misbehave)

[SupaKomputa]

You don't need threadripper to serve the whole house.

You can just get a Ryzen 5950x, 16 cores is enough for like 4-5 people (even more) using it at the same time.

Just have as much ram as you can.

 

[manikyath]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

You don't need threadripper to serve the whole house.

You can just get a Ryzen 5950x, 16 cores is enough for like 4-5 people (even more) using it at the same time.

Just have as much ram as you can.

 

but you need more than 16 PCIe lanes (and potentially more than 2 memory channels) to have everything perform well.

 

ideally every GPU gets 8 lanes, you need at least one lane for a USB controller for each VM (it's not a necessity, but it helps you not get driven insane by trying to hotplug usb), you potentially need additional lanes for a HBA or PCIe based storage, ...

[trag1c]

7 minutes ago, manikyath said:

you need at least one lane for a USB controller for each VM (it's not a necessity, but it helps you not get driven insane by trying to hotplug usb), 

This is the bane of my existence...lol

[crenierroy_ltt_2005]

16 hours ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Woah, cool it on the capslock!

 

Are you actually wanting to make this build or i it a suggestion for LTT?

both, because this project was inspired by the "whole house, one cpu" project

[crenierroy_ltt_2005]

16 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

Why not, but you lose some PCIe lanes in the process and wont be able to power as many graphics cards. Threadripper Pro, just like Eypc, can't overclock however.

i don't care about overclocking, because this project is for personal use only