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I'm really uneasy about increasing the region count for anycast.
It turns into us forcing users to buy servers that they may not need for their setup.
Francisco
What heatsinks did you go with? Seems like there is almost none that fit in a 1u..
Seems like this is the best option if you can find it in stock: https://www.amazon.com/Dynatron-A18-Active-Blower-heatsink/dp/B074DT5B36
Pretty sure that's what he used. That's pretty much the only option unless you have the bare 1U aluminum heatsinks like what's included in the ASRR barebones (img) server.
I tried to find the that one too, no luck so far. Not sure how well they would cool with a passive cooler in a supermicro case. They seem to run warmer vs Intels
I did find a tiny 1u water cooler https://www.ebay.com/i/254479793588 that looked interesting. I would be too worried of a leak/failure in a rack with that.
My Ryzen stuff runs cooler than my Intel stuff. I use the Dynatron coolers, they're perfectly fine. The barebones 1U heatsink works fine with passive cooling from the 60mm fans; I have a Ryzen 2200G that was sitting at 28*c last I checked.
I got a few of those but I ended up buying a similar heatsink off aliexpress. The CFM on the aliexpress one is much higher than the Dynatron.
Dynatron quoted me at least 2 months before they're able to fill my order.
Supposedly they had a lot of intentory and then sold everything in a weekend.
Francisco
Maybe you could keep the existing anycast subnet(s) with the current three regions, and add some new subnets that include new regions?
tbh the main reason I'm not using the anycast service more is that there's not really good coverage for people in APAC, since it just goes to the USA.
If I was to add APAC I think enough people would be happy with it that I could get away with 'forcing it'.
Francisco
@Francisco wishing you and your staff's safety from the virus. more power.
sorry for this comment on this thread.
How exactly will CPU cores work? IIRC the CPUs you have now don't support hyper threading but those Ryzen do. Will you disable hyper threading? A dedicated core will just be a dedicated thread? Or, will a dedicated core be a dedicated physical core with two virtual cores?
The current cpus have hyper threading.
Francisco
Hope all is well with you and your family boss.
Francisco
Ah, well there goes my dream of doubling my virtual cores
No, but it sure feels like we are.
We have some plex users on the test node that are transcoding without any hiccups or anything when before the 1270v3s would crap out on 720p.
Francisco
Yeah, I know it'll be a pretty big IPC improvement along with a clock bump. Not to mention DDR4 and NVME. I'm curious just how much performance will improve.
Pay a little more each month and make that dream a reality.
Heatsinks cleared customs this evening so I should have them Monday.
Intending to rack 8 to 10 nodes this weekend using the heatsinks I do have.
Francisco
volunteers to have my slice swapped
Can't wait to try. Would love to have my Windows VM swap over to Ryan.
Are you sure that Ryan wants your Windows VM?
Ryan is a cool guy, I doubt he will mind.
All the best Fran and hope everything goes as smooth as possible ☺️
The M.2 slots on this board are not using PCIe 3.0 x4, that means the NVMes will get heavily throttled. We tried them out as well but came to the conclusion that there are too many downsides of this board.
Yeah that's what I noticed as well, it also limits the types and size of NVMe drives you can connect to this board.
The cost of bifurcation x16 cards needs to come down big time.
Do you really think it'd make that big of an impact? I mean, PCIe 3.0 2x is still pretty fast.
I miss Aldryc... #not
Who notices 50% performance difference anyways? /s
I only buy m.2's that use all x4 lanes, so it would be a shitty experience for me to go to x2. But if they were coming from SSD or spinners, it's a step up, no doubt. I mean, Budget is right in the name, and this is how to use budget m.2 drives and keep the cost down.
Can someone remind me restock days? 1st and 7th or 1st and 17th?
https://buyvmstock.com