A Server Platform with Exceptional Performance

Expecting a server platform to be better than its desktop counterpart is reasonable, given the differences in design and architecture. The three-time chipset on this server platform ensures that everything works smoothly, allowing users to take advantage of its capabilities. One exciting feature is the potential for PCI Express breakouts, which would enable users to create multiple virtual machines with a variety of peripherals. This setup would be particularly appealing for individuals who require a high level of flexibility and customization.

The Motherboard: A Hub for Management and Expansion

The motherboard is designed with quality of life features in mind. It has headers for the system management bus, allowing users to connect smart power supplies and other devices that require this interface. The presence of these headers enables advanced system management capabilities, such as drive identification and monitoring. Furthermore, the motherboard comes equipped with a breakout cable, which simplifies the process of connecting peripherals to the board. This feature is well-supported by standard interfaces, making it easy for users to integrate their existing hardware.

Socketed Bios and IPMI Controller: Enhancing Management and Maintenance

The motherboard also features socketed BIOS and an IPMI controller, providing users with greater flexibility and control over system management. The ability to remove and replace the BIOS chip or disable the IPMI interface altogether is a welcome feature for those who prefer a more hands-on approach to managing their systems. However, the IPMI on this motherboard is particularly noteworthy, offering one of the best modern implementations available. It works seamlessly in various browsers, including Chrome and Firefox, allowing users to perform system installations remotely and access system information with ease.

A Solid Workstation Solution

The author has found that this server platform is well-suited for use as a workstation, despite its intended purpose being as a desktop solution. The motherboard's whisper-quiet operation and compatibility with a variety of CPU coolers make it an attractive option for those seeking a reliable and flexible system.

Indigo Performance on the 7551 Platform

When running indigo on this platform under Windows, results demonstrate that the 7551 processor is remarkably effective. With a score of around 3, it outperforms the Pentium Gold 6130 by approximately 0.7 points, making it equivalent to an Intel Core i7-10610K. This impressive performance is likely due to the motherboard's design and the 7551 processor's exceptional capabilities.

Ripper 2990 vs. 7551: A Comparison

Instead of focusing on a direct comparison with the Ripper 2990, the author proposes exploring the differences between these two processors to understand why Windows struggles to manage the latter's 32 cores and 64 threads. By examining the performance characteristics of both processors and identifying any potential bottlenecks or areas for improvement, it may be possible to unlock the full potential of this remarkable processor.

Workload Consolidation and Testing

The author invites readers to participate in a collaborative effort to create a workload consolidation package that can be run on the system. By pooling their resources and expertise, it is possible to develop a comprehensive testing framework that will help identify areas for improvement and optimize performance. This endeavor promises to bring together like-minded individuals who share an interest in exploring the capabilities of this exceptional processor.

Signing Off

As the author comes to a close, they express their enthusiasm for continuing the conversation and exploring the intricacies of these remarkable processors. Readers can find them on various social media platforms, where they will be happy to engage with others interested in discussing system management, performance optimization, and the latest developments in server technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en32 core monster 64 gigabytes of RAM I can only be talking about the thread Ripper 990 WX right nope this is epic ha EP YC but you knew that from the title already see my jokes they're really bad but that's okay cuz you're not here for the jokes you're here for the lowdown I've done something kind of unholy so we've got the epic the aim the epic 7551 P which is a CPU that I'm gonna be talking a lot about I think for the next couple of months see we did that testing thing with the thread Ripper 2990 W X which is a monster CPU it behaves a weird on Windows with some workloads like there are performance regressions where the 2990 will actually perform slower than the 2950 X another thread Ripper CPU from from AMD 16 cores versus 32 cores know the 2990 is no slouch there's not anything wrong with the processor but something has been eating at the back of my mind something that I've been trying to figure out why is it slower on Windows now Linux doesn't suffer from this problem and we ran benchmarks like the Indigo benchmark a 3d rendering benchmark which multiple cores many course you know 32 cores is particularly well-suited for scaling up now a lot of things don't really scale the more CPUs that you had when you double the number of CPUs you might only get you know 25 to 50 percent scaling so moving from one core to 4 cores it's a pretty big deal but moving it from 4 cores to 32 cores proportionally you're not really gaining as much in most applications and it's not really true of server workloads where things have been parallel for a long time I mean if you have a lot of clients accessing the server you know web server with a lot of users connecting and downloading a lot of resources that scales a lot better than a desktop computer and so that's what you know AMD was sort of designing for with many cores and the whole chip 'lets thing and they're epic server CPUs and thread Ripper is really just sort of repurposed epic CPUs for the desktop but the three or four CPUs are also clocked higher these more power one big difference is the threader for CPUs only have half as many memory channels and we'll talk a little bit more about that but it was sort of eating me like why is there this performance regression on Windows and I think to answer that question I need a 32 or 64 thread CPU well it just so happens that AMD has the 7551 p on the P the difference between the P and the non p processor is that with thread Ripper you can only run motherboards that have one socket so with epoch we're talking about two sockets in a computer and you could run two physical CPUs so 64 threads plus 64 threads 128 threads in a box well those CPUs the 7551 is a $5,000 processor but the 7551 P that's a $2,500 processor and the reason that it costs less is because it'll only work in single socket motherboards and also partly market forces because there are a lot of people that have workloads little scale kind of well to a point and then after that they don't really scale as well there's also a big market for consolidation so you have a server like say I don't know Xeon e5 you know 20 60 70 or a bunch of them and you want to start consolidating them well I just so happened to have a Super Micro well I think that's an 8 that's it well it was a franc and server behind me but it's a it's a xeon e5 2670 you can consolidate four of these four of these dual socket to you servers the workload virtual machines linux box windows mix whatever you can easily easily consolidate four of these into a single socket 7551 p that is extremely impressive and that is another conversation that i want to have around the 7551 epic cpu because if you have a lot of legacy servers or older servers and you're looking to consolidate them and I told you like I just came along it's like a salesperson and said hey a lot of those you know 1st and 2nd gen Zeon's maybe even some of the third gen Zeon's you could take three or four of those boxes consolidate those onto a single socket box and still have room left over to grow I would tell that I mean I would think that you are a crazy person or you were just trying to sell me snake oil or something but this platform is so impressive 32 cores 64 threads support for up to 2 terabytes of memory it really is mind-blowing now I'm not suggesting that you build your server as I have and I'm not even suggesting this for a an epic workstation but it's good for me because I can do my experiments and of course what chariot is carrying my 7551 P well it's the gigabyte in 0 1 - C 0 yes I mean not the most original motherboard name ever but it has 8 channels so it supports the full 8 channels of memory from epic it's one dimple server motherboards that are physically larger will support 2 dimms per channel it's does support up to like 200 250 watts of power from the vrm like if you just do the math on the vrm but officially those epic CPUs are only rated at up to 180 watts plus or minus so 180 watt at big CPUs that's another difference with thread Ripper you know a thread Ripper we've pushed the 29.92 400 watts and as you can manage the heat it works really well but for data center customers there's not a data center customer on earth really that is looking for a 400 watt server CPU if that's what they have to deal with they'll take it but they don't want a 400 watt server CPU they want a power efficient the most compute per dollar tip you per dollar compute per dollar energy costs all this kind of stuff so that's what aimed he's been targeting and so the epic CPU will run a 2 to 3 gigahertz now the gigabyte motherboard here is really a server motherboard it's designed for a rack mount chassis and if you're gonna do this you probably should use some rack mount components but with all those disclaimers aside let me walk you through the workstation that I built because I like it and it works for me first up we've got the gigabyte motherboard that I mentioned before I'll tell you some more of the features it's got a ton of 4 pin fan headers so you can configure all of the fans I'm running that in a fractal define r6 and again with a lot of fans I don't even have closed loop or custom custom loop water cooling because you don't need it because it doesn't run really super hot I mean that CPU is gonna consume it most run 180 watts but there you go it has four USB 3 ports two on the front panel connection - on the on the back the way that the USB 3.0 header comes off of this is that a rod angle and so it will work even in a 1u rackmount case if you've got a 1u rackmount case you could totally run one you with this motherboard although i'd recommend to you for for ample cooling i'm running it with a deep cool gamers storm you have thread ripper cpu cooler why that well that particular tr4 cooler it's really designed for thread ripper will work great in a 4u rackmount case now it's turned 90 degrees the epic sockets on the motherboard in general are turned 90 degrees and so the airflow might not make sense in a rack mount case but for my fractal define r6 it makes perfect sense because i've got the top configured as a vent and so i could just draw the warm air out the top it works great it's a good setup so with this case I've got my fans configure - bringing it air in from the front and the bottom and to exhaust air at the rear in the top and that has worked really well and all of my testing and work loads and that sort of thing also in this system I'm running an nvme like a breakout in vme by 4 slot the slot configuration on this motherboard is all four slots run it by 16 there's also a physical by 8 slot and that runs at the full by 8 because with that 7551 P we've got 128 PCI Express lines got PCI Express Lanes for days I'm not even using them all also on board we have 16 SATA connections it's not SAS it doesn't have a SAS controller or a RAID controller or anything like that but you have four of the micro connectors that will break out into SATA cables so if you wanted to use an inexpensive case like the Norco 40 20 or one of the chambero cases that does not have a SAS expander built in let's just say de you can totally use that but I strongly recommend even for a testing system or even for a first and buy system unless you're gonna build out a bunch of these I strongly recommend a SAS controller with a multiplexing backplane so that you have a redundant path to each set of disks rather than say that I mean you can use it if it's like a backup appliance or something like that but anything that's mission critical I'm gonna strongly suggest that you get something that at least has the multipath you know a multiplexer backplane they need so that you can have multiple paths through the controller you can LSI control are added in basically you're done the motherboard power connectors on this are also right angle with the front edge of the board with an auxiliary 12-volt connector not an erotical and the top left of the board but again using a desktop power supply on a desktop interface no problem gigabyte also breaks out the motherboard identification buttons like you hit a button and it flashes a lot which is actually handy when you've got a rack full of these in rack mount cases because a lot will blink on the front and back of the chassis so that you can identify a server in the rack so that's let's say you've got a rack of like 40 of these that are 1u one of them is acting up your remote into it you know it's IP address don't know where it is in the rack you can in the ipm I can figure it to blink and speaking of IPMI it's the a speed ast 2500 it's built-ins get built-in VGA so you can control it remotely you don't have to use that works great with add-in PCI Express cards this platform also supports for Tesla V 100's no problem so if you wanted to build the ultimate Tesla box for testing or whatever this platform is gonna support it and it's gonna do it you've been in this fractal define r6 case not even a rack mount case other stuff that's really exciting about this gigabyte motherboard that I've been using is that it has a lot of options in the UEFI light more than you would expect from an epic motherboard in addition to being able to configure all of the PCI Express slots to be whatever Lane configuration you want so you could literally take all four by 16 slots and split all of them into 4 by 4 connections so 4 8 16 by for connections plus the by 8 will split as well so if you wanted to break those by 16 slots out into u2 adapters to go with a u2 chassis those are pretty rare but the manufacturing for those is ramping up a gigabyte is also gonna offer some chassis surround this motherboard with a lot of really cool options and I can't can't wait to dive into those but you've got some options in terms of configuration breaking your card out doing some other really exciting things I've also tested this with intel octane which may sound sacrilegious but Intel obtained a hack I mean it's it's not a bad product just Intel doesn't understand how to market it and who the customers are I think probably I don't know it's really baffling but PCI Express octane runs great infinity fabric stuff runs great other UEFI options for doing cool stuff is that it has two built-in Intel a 10 gig Ethernet interface so that's the X 550 you can configure the VLAN you can do I scuzzy booting directly from UEFI or straight now in terms of performance mind-blowing utterly mind-blowing one of the reasons for that is in the UEFI you can configure the TDP now you can down configure it you know if 180 watts is like we're gonna we got a fleet of these I don't ever want to go over 150 because legacy replacement whatever you can do that you can configure that the c-d-c TDP you've got the Zen common options to the same stuff that you might be used to from the threader per side of things or if you're just getting into this whole AMD thing you can configure a lot of options on the CPU interment including like how it does non-uniform memory access because you know this is an epoch and potentially you have memory channels all over the place for all of your different dies you can configure that ton of options in the UEFI for configuring all of that stuff you also can configure the memory now officialy 2666 with one dim 4 channel is what epoch is designed for it'll run at 3200 and you can configure that and the gigabyte UEFI now if not supported the warranty it's not another supported configuration you can't can't really do that voltage configuring the voltage for the memory that's maybe something that you should consider when you do that but you can run it it up to 3200 by configuring that in the UEFI the motherboard also does have one onboard m2 slot and the m2 slot has a very cleverly placed temperature sensor there's actually a little block of foam and a little you know flex wire temperature sensor so it will actually match the temperature sensor into your MDOT - and that will be monitored for temperature so again if you're going to run this in a rack mount configuration or something like that it's nice to have because it rampe the fans if that m dot - starts to get a little warm so good job gigabyte in terms of supported operating systems and you know it's the software story and that's kind of thing I've been running Fedora on it Fedora runs great Ubuntu has also been heavily tested get the iommu group separation which is pretty good it's about what you'd expect I mean it's a server platform so it's gonna be a little bit better than the desktop in general and three-time chipset so everything works really great you can do a lot really fun stuff with this I'd love to do a PCI Express breakout because I think this would be one of the easiest ways to do you know a whole bunch of virtual machines for an individual with a whole bunch of different peripherals versus something like SR io v or or something like that because you can literally each each of the 16 thoughts will split into four slots so you could potentially have 16 PCI Express by 4 slots dedicated to the CPU with no bridges or muxes or anything so if you had a chassis to do that in well that would be really something just for experiment I'll I'm rambling doesn't have anything to do with what you're interested in probably so let's let's move on in terms of like you know quality of life nice things to have the motherboard has headers for the the you know system management bus headers and things like that so if you've got a smart power supply you're connecting to a chassis that has like a managed backplane for drive identification all that kind of stuff the motherboard comes with a little breakout cable to be able to do that with a standard in the standard like 5 pin interface and that's pretty well supported it also has a socketed bios so you could remove the bio chip and replace it if something goes wrong and it also has a socketed IPMI controller thing so like if you're super paranoid and don't even want the IPMI you can remove it disable it know IPMI works fine but the IPMI on this motherboard is one of the best modern IBM eyes mean the HP type you know html5 it works great in chrome orchestrated Firefox you can do your operating system installation for it remotely it works pretty well even when you've got an ad in graphics card and you need to do basic system management you got afraid the firmware you can apprai the baseband management controller firmware through the IPMI the F PMI is really full-featured you can get a lot of information out of it there are provisions and options for reading other sensor data from other stuff on the system management bus but getting a little bit too much in the weeds there it's a really solid well put together server motherboard now I happen to be using it in the workstation because I'm a crazy person and it works fine and the system is like whisper quiet and great and I'm using it a gamer CPU cooler but again that CPU cooler will fit right in for you it's one of a very very few tr4 coolers that doesn't block the RAM at all and can be used in a 4u rackmount case trust me that's actually hard to find and that's the deep cool it's the frozen cooler from deep cool there's a link to it in the description so I've been doing some fun things with this got some benchmarks for this and back to the original question that I had is what is indigo do well indigo runs correctly on this platform under windows I can get a score of about three which is a little bit better than a Pentium Gold 6130 on Windows it's about this is like that's like 2.7 - depends on your OEM and what they configure the power but it's a 2.7 to like 3.0 to 3.1 with the pentium gold 6130 so the 7551 for indigo is about equivalent to 61 3060 140 so the fehb 7551 is a mind-blowing processor and the m01 ce0 is a brilliant motherboard to run it in from gigabyte no RGB no BS no frills just a solid motherboard to be able to run that processor and do whatever you need and I'm doing it at a desktop case which is a little off label but it works it works great works great for my use case and I'm having a blast so we've got some more content in store for the whole thread Ripper 2990 the 7551 and it's not really a vs. it's a let's compare the two to see if we can figure out what Windows is having such a hard time managing 32 cores and 64 threads on that thread root for 2990 when the 7551 does such a better job adventures in nuuma that's level one I'm Windell I'm signing out you can find me in the level in text forms if you want to like run of workloads like hey well my workload consolidate for this and we can somehow get into some kind of a package that I can run come to the level in forms let's do it why not I have time let's make it happen well I'm signing out I'll see you32 core monster 64 gigabytes of RAM I can only be talking about the thread Ripper 990 WX right nope this is epic ha EP YC but you knew that from the title already see my jokes they're really bad but that's okay cuz you're not here for the jokes you're here for the lowdown I've done something kind of unholy so we've got the epic the aim the epic 7551 P which is a CPU that I'm gonna be talking a lot about I think for the next couple of months see we did that testing thing with the thread Ripper 2990 W X which is a monster CPU it behaves a weird on Windows with some workloads like there are performance regressions where the 2990 will actually perform slower than the 2950 X another thread Ripper CPU from from AMD 16 cores versus 32 cores know the 2990 is no slouch there's not anything wrong with the processor but something has been eating at the back of my mind something that I've been trying to figure out why is it slower on Windows now Linux doesn't suffer from this problem and we ran benchmarks like the Indigo benchmark a 3d rendering benchmark which multiple cores many course you know 32 cores is particularly well-suited for scaling up now a lot of things don't really scale the more CPUs that you had when you double the number of CPUs you might only get you know 25 to 50 percent scaling so moving from one core to 4 cores it's a pretty big deal but moving it from 4 cores to 32 cores proportionally you're not really gaining as much in most applications and it's not really true of server workloads where things have been parallel for a long time I mean if you have a lot of clients accessing the server you know web server with a lot of users connecting and downloading a lot of resources that scales a lot better than a desktop computer and so that's what you know AMD was sort of designing for with many cores and the whole chip 'lets thing and they're epic server CPUs and thread Ripper is really just sort of repurposed epic CPUs for the desktop but the three or four CPUs are also clocked higher these more power one big difference is the threader for CPUs only have half as many memory channels and we'll talk a little bit more about that but it was sort of eating me like why is there this performance regression on Windows and I think to answer that question I need a 32 or 64 thread CPU well it just so happens that AMD has the 7551 p on the P the difference between the P and the non p processor is that with thread Ripper you can only run motherboards that have one socket so with epoch we're talking about two sockets in a computer and you could run two physical CPUs so 64 threads plus 64 threads 128 threads in a box well those CPUs the 7551 is a $5,000 processor but the 7551 P that's a $2,500 processor and the reason that it costs less is because it'll only work in single socket motherboards and also partly market forces because there are a lot of people that have workloads little scale kind of well to a point and then after that they don't really scale as well there's also a big market for consolidation so you have a server like say I don't know Xeon e5 you know 20 60 70 or a bunch of them and you want to start consolidating them well I just so happened to have a Super Micro well I think that's an 8 that's it well it was a franc and server behind me but it's a it's a xeon e5 2670 you can consolidate four of these four of these dual socket to you servers the workload virtual machines linux box windows mix whatever you can easily easily consolidate four of these into a single socket 7551 p that is extremely impressive and that is another conversation that i want to have around the 7551 epic cpu because if you have a lot of legacy servers or older servers and you're looking to consolidate them and I told you like I just came along it's like a salesperson and said hey a lot of those you know 1st and 2nd gen Zeon's maybe even some of the third gen Zeon's you could take three or four of those boxes consolidate those onto a single socket box and still have room left over to grow I would tell that I mean I would think that you are a crazy person or you were just trying to sell me snake oil or something but this platform is so impressive 32 cores 64 threads support for up to 2 terabytes of memory it really is mind-blowing now I'm not suggesting that you build your server as I have and I'm not even suggesting this for a an epic workstation but it's good for me because I can do my experiments and of course what chariot is carrying my 7551 P well it's the gigabyte in 0 1 - C 0 yes I mean not the most original motherboard name ever but it has 8 channels so it supports the full 8 channels of memory from epic it's one dimple server motherboards that are physically larger will support 2 dimms per channel it's does support up to like 200 250 watts of power from the vrm like if you just do the math on the vrm but officially those epic CPUs are only rated at up to 180 watts plus or minus so 180 watt at big CPUs that's another difference with thread Ripper you know a thread Ripper we've pushed the 29.92 400 watts and as you can manage the heat it works really well but for data center customers there's not a data center customer on earth really that is looking for a 400 watt server CPU if that's what they have to deal with they'll take it but they don't want a 400 watt server CPU they want a power efficient the most compute per dollar tip you per dollar compute per dollar energy costs all this kind of stuff so that's what aimed he's been targeting and so the epic CPU will run a 2 to 3 gigahertz now the gigabyte motherboard here is really a server motherboard it's designed for a rack mount chassis and if you're gonna do this you probably should use some rack mount components but with all those disclaimers aside let me walk you through the workstation that I built because I like it and it works for me first up we've got the gigabyte motherboard that I mentioned before I'll tell you some more of the features it's got a ton of 4 pin fan headers so you can configure all of the fans I'm running that in a fractal define r6 and again with a lot of fans I don't even have closed loop or custom custom loop water cooling because you don't need it because it doesn't run really super hot I mean that CPU is gonna consume it most run 180 watts but there you go it has four USB 3 ports two on the front panel connection - on the on the back the way that the USB 3.0 header comes off of this is that a rod angle and so it will work even in a 1u rackmount case if you've got a 1u rackmount case you could totally run one you with this motherboard although i'd recommend to you for for ample cooling i'm running it with a deep cool gamers storm you have thread ripper cpu cooler why that well that particular tr4 cooler it's really designed for thread ripper will work great in a 4u rackmount case now it's turned 90 degrees the epic sockets on the motherboard in general are turned 90 degrees and so the airflow might not make sense in a rack mount case but for my fractal define r6 it makes perfect sense because i've got the top configured as a vent and so i could just draw the warm air out the top it works great it's a good setup so with this case I've got my fans configure - bringing it air in from the front and the bottom and to exhaust air at the rear in the top and that has worked really well and all of my testing and work loads and that sort of thing also in this system I'm running an nvme like a breakout in vme by 4 slot the slot configuration on this motherboard is all four slots run it by 16 there's also a physical by 8 slot and that runs at the full by 8 because with that 7551 P we've got 128 PCI Express lines got PCI Express Lanes for days I'm not even using them all also on board we have 16 SATA connections it's not SAS it doesn't have a SAS controller or a RAID controller or anything like that but you have four of the micro connectors that will break out into SATA cables so if you wanted to use an inexpensive case like the Norco 40 20 or one of the chambero cases that does not have a SAS expander built in let's just say de you can totally use that but I strongly recommend even for a testing system or even for a first and buy system unless you're gonna build out a bunch of these I strongly recommend a SAS controller with a multiplexing backplane so that you have a redundant path to each set of disks rather than say that I mean you can use it if it's like a backup appliance or something like that but anything that's mission critical I'm gonna strongly suggest that you get something that at least has the multipath you know a multiplexer backplane they need so that you can have multiple paths through the controller you can LSI control are added in basically you're done the motherboard power connectors on this are also right angle with the front edge of the board with an auxiliary 12-volt connector not an erotical and the top left of the board but again using a desktop power supply on a desktop interface no problem gigabyte also breaks out the motherboard identification buttons like you hit a button and it flashes a lot which is actually handy when you've got a rack full of these in rack mount cases because a lot will blink on the front and back of the chassis so that you can identify a server in the rack so that's let's say you've got a rack of like 40 of these that are 1u one of them is acting up your remote into it you know it's IP address don't know where it is in the rack you can in the ipm I can figure it to blink and speaking of IPMI it's the a speed ast 2500 it's built-ins get built-in VGA so you can control it remotely you don't have to use that works great with add-in PCI Express cards this platform also supports for Tesla V 100's no problem so if you wanted to build the ultimate Tesla box for testing or whatever this platform is gonna support it and it's gonna do it you've been in this fractal define r6 case not even a rack mount case other stuff that's really exciting about this gigabyte motherboard that I've been using is that it has a lot of options in the UEFI light more than you would expect from an epic motherboard in addition to being able to configure all of the PCI Express slots to be whatever Lane configuration you want so you could literally take all four by 16 slots and split all of them into 4 by 4 connections so 4 8 16 by for connections plus the by 8 will split as well so if you wanted to break those by 16 slots out into u2 adapters to go with a u2 chassis those are pretty rare but the manufacturing for those is ramping up a gigabyte is also gonna offer some chassis surround this motherboard with a lot of really cool options and I can't can't wait to dive into those but you've got some options in terms of configuration breaking your card out doing some other really exciting things I've also tested this with intel octane which may sound sacrilegious but Intel obtained a hack I mean it's it's not a bad product just Intel doesn't understand how to market it and who the customers are I think probably I don't know it's really baffling but PCI Express octane runs great infinity fabric stuff runs great other UEFI options for doing cool stuff is that it has two built-in Intel a 10 gig Ethernet interface so that's the X 550 you can configure the VLAN you can do I scuzzy booting directly from UEFI or straight now in terms of performance mind-blowing utterly mind-blowing one of the reasons for that is in the UEFI you can configure the TDP now you can down configure it you know if 180 watts is like we're gonna we got a fleet of these I don't ever want to go over 150 because legacy replacement whatever you can do that you can configure that the c-d-c TDP you've got the Zen common options to the same stuff that you might be used to from the threader per side of things or if you're just getting into this whole AMD thing you can configure a lot of options on the CPU interment including like how it does non-uniform memory access because you know this is an epoch and potentially you have memory channels all over the place for all of your different dies you can configure that ton of options in the UEFI for configuring all of that stuff you also can configure the memory now officialy 2666 with one dim 4 channel is what epoch is designed for it'll run at 3200 and you can configure that and the gigabyte UEFI now if not supported the warranty it's not another supported configuration you can't can't really do that voltage configuring the voltage for the memory that's maybe something that you should consider when you do that but you can run it it up to 3200 by configuring that in the UEFI the motherboard also does have one onboard m2 slot and the m2 slot has a very cleverly placed temperature sensor there's actually a little block of foam and a little you know flex wire temperature sensor so it will actually match the temperature sensor into your MDOT - and that will be monitored for temperature so again if you're going to run this in a rack mount configuration or something like that it's nice to have because it rampe the fans if that m dot - starts to get a little warm so good job gigabyte in terms of supported operating systems and you know it's the software story and that's kind of thing I've been running Fedora on it Fedora runs great Ubuntu has also been heavily tested get the iommu group separation which is pretty good it's about what you'd expect I mean it's a server platform so it's gonna be a little bit better than the desktop in general and three-time chipset so everything works really great you can do a lot really fun stuff with this I'd love to do a PCI Express breakout because I think this would be one of the easiest ways to do you know a whole bunch of virtual machines for an individual with a whole bunch of different peripherals versus something like SR io v or or something like that because you can literally each each of the 16 thoughts will split into four slots so you could potentially have 16 PCI Express by 4 slots dedicated to the CPU with no bridges or muxes or anything so if you had a chassis to do that in well that would be really something just for experiment I'll I'm rambling doesn't have anything to do with what you're interested in probably so let's let's move on in terms of like you know quality of life nice things to have the motherboard has headers for the the you know system management bus headers and things like that so if you've got a smart power supply you're connecting to a chassis that has like a managed backplane for drive identification all that kind of stuff the motherboard comes with a little breakout cable to be able to do that with a standard in the standard like 5 pin interface and that's pretty well supported it also has a socketed bios so you could remove the bio chip and replace it if something goes wrong and it also has a socketed IPMI controller thing so like if you're super paranoid and don't even want the IPMI you can remove it disable it know IPMI works fine but the IPMI on this motherboard is one of the best modern IBM eyes mean the HP type you know html5 it works great in chrome orchestrated Firefox you can do your operating system installation for it remotely it works pretty well even when you've got an ad in graphics card and you need to do basic system management you got afraid the firmware you can apprai the baseband management controller firmware through the IPMI the F PMI is really full-featured you can get a lot of information out of it there are provisions and options for reading other sensor data from other stuff on the system management bus but getting a little bit too much in the weeds there it's a really solid well put together server motherboard now I happen to be using it in the workstation because I'm a crazy person and it works fine and the system is like whisper quiet and great and I'm using it a gamer CPU cooler but again that CPU cooler will fit right in for you it's one of a very very few tr4 coolers that doesn't block the RAM at all and can be used in a 4u rackmount case trust me that's actually hard to find and that's the deep cool it's the frozen cooler from deep cool there's a link to it in the description so I've been doing some fun things with this got some benchmarks for this and back to the original question that I had is what is indigo do well indigo runs correctly on this platform under windows I can get a score of about three which is a little bit better than a Pentium Gold 6130 on Windows it's about this is like that's like 2.7 - depends on your OEM and what they configure the power but it's a 2.7 to like 3.0 to 3.1 with the pentium gold 6130 so the 7551 for indigo is about equivalent to 61 3060 140 so the fehb 7551 is a mind-blowing processor and the m01 ce0 is a brilliant motherboard to run it in from gigabyte no RGB no BS no frills just a solid motherboard to be able to run that processor and do whatever you need and I'm doing it at a desktop case which is a little off label but it works it works great works great for my use case and I'm having a blast so we've got some more content in store for the whole thread Ripper 2990 the 7551 and it's not really a vs. it's a let's compare the two to see if we can figure out what Windows is having such a hard time managing 32 cores and 64 threads on that thread root for 2990 when the 7551 does such a better job adventures in nuuma that's level one I'm Windell I'm signing out you can find me in the level in text forms if you want to like run of workloads like hey well my workload consolidate for this and we can somehow get into some kind of a package that I can run come to the level in forms let's do it why not I have time let's make it happen well I'm signing out I'll see you\n"