Especially at the pricing of AMD's parts, it'll cost me $400-500 for a Xeon E5-2420v2 to upgrade the E5-2403v2 in my TD340 to something more reasonable clock-speed and core/thread-wise - not to mention I HAVE to buy two of them to get full access to the PCIe lanes and memory capacity of the thing.
I think instead of upgrading this thing any more I'll just sell it and build a new EPYC system once the parts are available outside of OEM configurations. At $600 the EPYC 7281 is a steal - 16c/32t, a full 128 PCIe lanes plus four memory channels (with 2TB of memory supported) on a single socket.
I think instead of upgrading this thing any more I'll just sell it and build a new EPYC system once the parts are available outside of OEM configurations. At $600 the EPYC 7281 is a steal - 16c/32t, a full 128 PCIe lanes plus four memory channels (with 2TB of memory supported) on a single socket.