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Announcing the BuyVM hardware refresh to AMD Ryzen!

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Daniel15 said: I wish BuyVM had servers in Asia too...would improve the anycast service a bit.

    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

  • oplinkoplink Member, Patron Provider
    edited March 2020

    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

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider
    edited March 2020

    @oplink said:
    What heatsinks did you go with? Seems like there is almost none that fit in a 1u..
    seems like this is the best one on the market: 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.

  • oplinkoplink Member, Patron Provider

    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.

  • MikeAMikeA Member, Patron Provider

    @oplink said:
    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.

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @oplink said:
    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

    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

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  • Francisco said: 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.

    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.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Daniel15 said: 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

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  • @Francisco wishing you and your staff's safety from the virus. more power.

    sorry for this comment on this thread.

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  • @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @jcaleb said:
    @Francisco wishing you and your staff's safety from the virus. more power.

    sorry for this comment on this thread.

    Hope all is well with you and your family boss.

    Francisco

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  • @Francisco said:

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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

    Ah, well there goes my dream of doubling my virtual cores
    pepe_hands

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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

    Ah, well there goes my dream of doubling my virtual cores
    pepe_hands

    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

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  • @Francisco said:

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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

    Ah, well there goes my dream of doubling my virtual cores
    pepe_hands

    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.

  • @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @Autizmo said:

    @Francisco said:

    @smicroz said:
    Ram upgrade? 😁

    Theres no changes to the plans.

    Francisco

    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

    Ah, well there goes my dream of doubling my virtual cores
    pepe_hands

    Pay a little more each month and make that dream a reality.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    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

  • FoulFoul Member

    Francisco said: Heatsinks cleared customs this evening so I should have them Monday.

    volunteers to have my slice swapped

  • @Francisco said:
    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

    Can't wait to try. Would love to have my Windows VM swap over to Ryan.

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    @Netxons said:

    @Francisco said:
    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

    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?

  • @angstrom said:

    @Netxons said:

    @Francisco said:
    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

    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.

  • DPDP Administrator, The Domain Guy

    @Francisco said:
    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

    All the best Fran and hope everything goes as smooth as possible ☺️

  • niknik Member, Host Rep

    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.

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  • @nik said:
    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.

  • @marvel said:

    @nik said:
    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.

    Do you really think it'd make that big of an impact? I mean, PCIe 3.0 2x is still pretty fast.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    I miss Aldryc... #not

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  • @Autizmo said:

    @marvel said:

    @nik said:
    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.

    Do you really think it'd make that big of an impact? I mean, PCIe 3.0 2x is still pretty fast.

    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.

  • NihimNihim Member

    Can someone remind me restock days? 1st and 7th or 1st and 17th?

  • DPDP Administrator, The Domain Guy
    edited March 2020

    @Nihim said:
    Can someone remind me restock days? 1st and 7th or 1st and 17th?

    https://buyvmstock.com

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