Best AM4 CPU w/ ECC Support & Graphics

[shaqaruden]

I am looking to upgrade the CPU in my home lab that has ECC support for TrueNAS and on-board graphics so I can use my only PCIE slot for a GPU for hardware encoding on my media server. 
 

I did buy a 4600G thinking it would be a option back at the beginning of the year when I was building my media server (became a home lab along the way) but I was not able to POST with the ECC RAM and had to swap it with the 3600 in my gaming rig. 

Now I think it’s time to look into getting something better. Looking for as many cores I can get. 
 

any suggestions would be appreciated. 
Thanks!

[Blue4130]

23 minutes ago, shaqaruden said:

I am looking to upgrade the CPU in my home lab that has ECC support for TrueNAS and on-board graphics so I can use my only PCIE slot for a GPU for hardware encoding on my media server. 
 

I did buy a 4600G thinking it would be a option back at the beginning of the year when I was building my media server (became a home lab along the way) but I was not able to POST with the ECC RAM and had to swap it with the 3600 in my gaming rig. 

Now I think it’s time to look into getting something better. Looking for as many cores I can get. 
 

any suggestions would be appreciated. 
Thanks!

Why do you need the igpu if you are installing the dGPU? Are you running Truenas in a VM?

[BiotechBen]

Ecc support is valid across all the chips, but you also need a board that supports ECC, many don't.

[Blue4130]

15 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Ecc support is valid across all the chips, but you also need a board that supports ECC, many don't.

For the 4000g chips, it is only supported on the "pro" series from my understanding.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 hours ago, shaqaruden said:

Looking for as many cores I can get. 

amd epyc

budget?

country?

 

buncha pcie lanes for lots of gpus or ssds or whatever the hell you wanna do with 100+ pcie lanes

 

buncha ram channels for boatloads of ram not to mention dirt cheap ecc ddr4, dual socket, tons of cores, etc.

 

epyc 7c13 or qs (overclockable) 7763 are now down to around 1100$ so theyre cheaper than the 7702/7742 and offer 64 cores whilst being zen 3 instead of zen 2

 

epyc 7282 are floating around 70-80$ and these are 16 core zen 2 chips

 

sp3 boards like the asus krpa u16 or giga mz32-ar0 are around the 420$ mark

 

and yes the boards have onboard gpus so no need for a display adapter card just that they use ancient vga outputs

[Blue4130]

9 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

amd epyc

budget?

country?

 

buncha pcie lanes for lots of gpus or ssds or whatever the hell you wanna do with 100+ pcie lanes

 

buncha ram channels for boatloads of ram not to mention dirt cheap ecc ddr4, dual socket, tons of cores, etc.

 

epyc 7c13 or qs (overclockable) 7763 are now down to around 1100$ so theyre cheaper than the 7702/7742 and offer 64 cores whilst being zen 3 instead of zen 2

 

epyc 7282 are floating around 70-80$ and these are 16 core zen 2 chips

 

sp3 boards like the asus krpa u16 or giga mz32-ar0 are around the 420$ mark

 

and yes the boards have onboard gpus so no need for a display adapter card just that they use ancient vga outputs

WAY overkill for a nas/encoding machine.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

9 minutes ago, Blue4130 said:

WAY overkill for a nas/encoding machine.

he did say as many cores as possible =p

 

best you can do is 8 cores with the pro 4750g afaik if you want ecc support