AMD's NEW Cheap Server Chip is FINALLY Here

AMD has claimed leadership in the entry-level server space with the new AMD EPYC 4004 series. Intel needs to go do a re-do as AMD enters the market with EPYC processors that are based on an AMD Ryzen platform.

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00:00 Introduction
01:26 AMD EPYC 4004 Series Overview
05:55 ASRock Rack 2U1G-B650 AMD EPYC and Ryzen GPU Server
10:40 AMD vs. Intel Socket Performance
11:37 Power Consumption and Noise
14:02 Key Lessons Learned

[markkoops]

I love the irony of AMD calling it 4004 😂

[CamdogXIII]

Really wish they would have included extra PCI-E lanes. Something like a 4/8c chip with 48 or 64 PCI-E v5 lanes. There's not much out there for those of us wanting that kind of connectivity other than Ebay EPYC x002/x003 chips/boards.

[Motocrossswe]

This is amazing for the homelab audience aswell. AMD really did a homerun with this one!

[abavariannormiepleb]

Here I was hoping for an actual new product line like the introduction of something like “AM5+” with 32+4+4+4 PCIe lanes and 4 memory channels, silly me.

[alexmeakins]

Ah typical, just when I ordered 48 more 7950x nodes. lol.

[FrenziedManbeast]

Still kind of mixed feelings about this kind of platform for Homelab given current DDR5 UDIMM ECC prices. I bought 256GB of DDR4 3200 RDIMMs for $400, and and you're lucky to get 64GB of DDR5 for $300. Yikes. Really nice video Patrick this release has really caught me by surprise!

[boss]

unless you need more PCIe lanes, 1st gen EPYC's on Ebay are a killer deal, i snagged a 7551p combo for ~800 with 128gb ECC ram and a Supermicro board.

[Val-xiwe]

I do not see this changing anything for those of us using their home servers for BlueIris video encoding and/or Plex video decoding I still do not see a AMD solution to Intel Quicksync.
AMD really needs to invest into their iGPU development tools in/for Plex, BlueIris, Handbrake, etc.
Could I use AMD and just horsepower through with cores? yes. But the power usage compared to using Quicksync to accomplish the same quality cannot be ignored.

[nadtz]

So excited for this, wish it had more PCIE lanes but this will be a nice upgrade for my Xeon v2 NAS once motherboards are available for the DIY market.

[-Qonqueror-]

Let’s just hope they don’t remove features from future Desktop Ryzen CPUs to justify the Epyc Line.

[Mutation]

Wish we had more lanes / PLX chip and RDIMM support

[dophir]

Killing me with the 28 PCIE lanes. This would have been a no-brainer upgrade for my "budget" ML Workstation built on Ryzen, but not without at least 40 lanes, and I would prefer 48. Guess I'm back to waiting for used Threadripper prices to drop.

[theracerofnightmare]

$90 is a small price for the extra cores

[cmwdhkp]

Give me 3 PCIe 4.0x16 lanes and I’d be happy.

HBA, GPU for gaming VM, and GPU for transcoding.

Or HBA 16i, HBA 8 or 16e, and GPU for transcoding.

I’m a beginner at home lab stuff and most of it started from desire for media server and headless gaming machine so I can play on any screen in the house as that’s always changing of when/where I can play

[emsbas]

Any idea if this thing could support internal storage other than M.2 I see SATA ports does it have internal mounts for hard drives? I have 4 x 20TB Reds that I would love to fit in to this thing.

[bartgrefte]

Is that CPU-cooling solution available for other systems? Looks interesting :)

[whatevah]

Cool, now let's wait 5y+ to this to come down in price so i can pick one up on ebay for my homelab :D

[keyboard_g]

Im still amazed at the idea of 5.7ghz in a server chassis.

[VaibhavKurde]

4:41 Can't we use w11 pro with epyc processors?

[jeffw]

Just grabbed a couple of the 1U version of that chassis for redundant 25GbE firewalls.