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@not_benis What's the point of OEMs putting 2.5G NICs on motherboards?

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@splitshockvirus not knowing the difference in price between 2.5 and 10 gigabit interfaces myself, one clear answer I can give you is that in a select few parts of the world some people are able to get FTTH speeds above 1Gbps but well below 5Gbps, so the manufacturers are focusing on 2.5Gbps interfaces and calling it a day.
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@not_benis Next what's the difference between A620M and B650 chipset what am I bottlenecking by putting a 7950XD3D on a A620M?

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@splitshockvirus A620 has fewer and slower USB ports, plus I seem to remember the boards only support PCIe 3 but don't quote me on that.
Regarding power delivery, all A620 boards I've seen have fucking awful Vcore regulators which also have no heatsink most of the time. The meta board for cost effectiveness is the ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2, and that's the bare minimum I'd consider.
Personally I went with a B650E board because I want PCIe 5.
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@splitshockvirus also don't get 3D Vcache parts unless you know for certain your workloads benefit from that, because the Vcache CCDs have lower clocks and are more delicate (tolerate up to 84°C)
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@splitshockvirus what are you doing to do with these machines? I'd leave the 7950X3D alone because it's an odd beast and scheduling tasks for it is harder than you'd think

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General desktop, and KVM cluster so things like virtualization. The virtual machines run postgres, redis, ffmpeg (alot), and nginx.

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@splitshockvirus all these applications sound like they have no use for V-Cache so I'd say go for the regular processors
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@splitshockvirus my working hypothesis is you could build them in a bunch of NR200P cases, get 240mm water coolers, use the perforated side panel and mount the radiator as a side exhaust. With enough distance between each, you can stack them and use negative pressure to your advantage.
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@splitshockvirus or the nuclear hypothesis: build a custom loop with all the systems in parallel and a yuge external radiator
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@not_benis Well I'd only do that if I went with threadripper, and more so because I want to do an open loop.

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@not_benis I really don't want to go with AIO if it can be helped because traveling on a plane with these machines becomes more difficult. I'd need to put the cooler on my checked bags.

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@not_benis At that point I probably should just get Ampere ARM servers cause they probably are going to cost the same, and take up less space.

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@not_benis Nevermind that's too expensive.

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@splitshockvirus ya ain't cooling a 7950X without water, I can tell you that much
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@not_benis I probably am not going to be cooling it with that 120mm either considering card and PSU are venting through it but that case footprint is just foo good.

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@splitshockvirus it's an extra thick one so I'm pretty confident it can keep it cool at stock settings, I'm just worried for its future repairability
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Parts availability is a concern as well.

I really wish they just had this case. I could have done a lot.

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@splitshockvirus as a side note, CLCs usually endure shipping much better than air coolers because the majority of their mass is screwed down to the case instead of the motherboard. Just remove the graphics card because those entirely dislike rough handling.