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[Thirdgen89GTA]

I need a new Movie series to try this with. The EPYC CPU can handle all the Star Wars. Maybe F&F will fill the role. LoL.

I don't even have all the CPU cores assigned to the Plex VM running this. Just 16, realistically, I could assign another 6 easily. 1080p just can't stress it. Gonna have to try this with 4K movies lol.

I don't have enough Star Wars to max this out by thirdgen89gta, on Flickr

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Add in all the F&F, the whole James Bond franchise, and Mel Brooks collection?

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So, I just discovered something while doing some benchmarks in the new Windows 11 Guest VM. I assigned 16 cores to it, and Handbrake ripped through it pretty fast, but only slightly faster than my 5800x Gaming PC.

I also was able to get about 7 simultaneous 4K transcodes out of Plex on it. Thats WAY MORE than anyone will ever need.

It ran the Tron Lightbike tests at 96fps, and 35fps. The 5800x did 87fps, and 35fps.

But I noticed something. The CPU Clock Speed stayed a rock solid 2.85ghz. This CPU is capable of boosting to 4ghz with adequate cooling (and my HSF is definitely adequate, jeebus its a damned jet engine at full fan speeds). If its not boosting, its potentially leaving massive amounts of performance on the table, especially in lower threaded loads.

So, I need to speak with Supermicro Support, since I suspect its a BIOS setting, or bug. I checked the common settings in the BIOS, but it all seems to be enabled. I might have to setup a CPU clock speed logger to check the CPU speeds, and see if maybe its just not being reported?

That said, I had a laugh, did a few benchmarks inside the VM. 11.5GB/s read off the virtual volume. Take it with a grain of salt, there is a lot of stuff going on under the hood so the #'s aren't direct disk benchmarks.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Scratch that, it is boosting.

Averaging 3.98ghz in Singled Threaded, quite a few cores hitting 3.8ghz, but some as low as , and 3.2ghz in all core. CPU never gets above 60°C. Thats ice cold.

I may see about what kind of settings I can to do tweak it and get more.

I think for shits n' giggles, I may disconnect all the drives, and install Windows on a single SSD, then benchmark native. See what kind of performance it gets when its not running the test in side a VM.

It scored okay, all things considered that its inside a VM, and technically 4 cores (8 threads) are reserved for the host OS. I only assigned 20 here.

C:\Users\third\Desktop\CB_R23>start /b /wait "parentconsole" Cinebench.exe g_CinebenchAllTests=true
Application start      : 05/01/22 at 20:51:01
Executable             : 64 Bit
Version / Build        : 23.200 / RBBenchmark330542
OS version             : Windows 10, 64 Bit, Professional Edition (build 22000)
Processor              : 40(40)x AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core Processor
Computer name          : Win11VM
Unique OS identifier   : A2ahraV5mvDAle2yrXfE4z4diiiphD9oPVlhNPH_dNU= [uefi]
Thread Count           : 40
CPU Speed (MHz)        : 2850.000
Application Type       : Modular
Command line arguments : "g_CinebenchAllTests=true"

CINEBENCH AUTORUN
Please wait until all tests are done!

Running Multiple CPU Render Test...
Minimum test duration: 0.0 ns seconds.
Rendering...
Values: {27837.907} -> Avg/Deviation: 27837.907/0.000
CB 27837.91 (0.00)

Running Single CPU Render Test...
Minimum test duration: 0.0 ns seconds.
Rendering...
Values: {1211.288} -> Avg/Deviation: 1211.288/0.000
CB 1211.29 (0.00)

Single Threaded Load (Cinebench R23 in Windows 11 VM).

cpu MHz        : 3980.255
cpu MHz        : 3977.295
cpu MHz        : 3974.600
cpu MHz        : 3954.797
cpu MHz        : 3214.217
cpu MHz        : 3211.934
cpu MHz        : 3208.032
cpu MHz        : 3158.290
cpu MHz        : 3132.732
cpu MHz        : 3126.715
cpu MHz        : 3123.439
cpu MHz        : 3121.106
cpu MHz        : 3120.725
cpu MHz        : 3120.285
cpu MHz        : 3120.170
cpu MHz        : 3120.001
cpu MHz        : 3119.668
cpu MHz        : 3119.464
cpu MHz        : 3119.326
cpu MHz        : 3119.309
cpu MHz        : 3119.171
cpu MHz        : 3119.097
cpu MHz        : 3118.682
cpu MHz        : 3118.109
cpu MHz        : 1499.939
cpu MHz        : 1499.832
cpu MHz        : 1499.802
cpu MHz        : 1499.768
cpu MHz        : 1499.731
cpu MHz        : 1499.726
cpu MHz        : 1499.711
cpu MHz        : 1499.681
cpu MHz        : 1499.680
cpu MHz        : 1499.652
cpu MHz        : 1499.628
cpu MHz        : 1499.598
cpu MHz        : 1499.591
cpu MHz        : 1499.558
cpu MHz        : 1499.531
cpu MHz        : 1499.509
cpu MHz        : 1499.468
cpu MHz        : 1499.138
cpu MHz        : 1498.762
cpu MHz        : 1497.016
cpu MHz        : 1496.715
cpu MHz        : 1496.367
cpu MHz        : 1496.114
cpu MHz        : 1495.969

Multi-threaded workload (Cinebench R23 - Multi-core test)

cpu MHz        : 3338.434
cpu MHz        : 3334.978
cpu MHz        : 3333.661
cpu MHz        : 3327.942
cpu MHz        : 3324.046
cpu MHz        : 3323.258
cpu MHz        : 3323.158
cpu MHz        : 3323.000
cpu MHz        : 3322.960
cpu MHz        : 3322.813
cpu MHz        : 3322.795
cpu MHz        : 3322.558
cpu MHz        : 3322.360
cpu MHz        : 3322.271
cpu MHz        : 3322.209
cpu MHz        : 3322.103
cpu MHz        : 3321.953
cpu MHz        : 3321.803
cpu MHz        : 3321.767
cpu MHz        : 3321.756
cpu MHz        : 3321.742
cpu MHz        : 3321.740
cpu MHz        : 3321.606
cpu MHz        : 3321.455
cpu MHz        : 3321.362
cpu MHz        : 3321.349
cpu MHz        : 3321.340
cpu MHz        : 3321.177
cpu MHz        : 3321.131
cpu MHz        : 3320.983
cpu MHz        : 3320.980
cpu MHz        : 3320.890
cpu MHz        : 3320.879
cpu MHz        : 3320.730
cpu MHz        : 3320.679
cpu MHz        : 3320.516
cpu MHz        : 3320.399
cpu MHz        : 3320.232
cpu MHz        : 3320.085
cpu MHz        : 3320.070
cpu MHz        : 3319.893
cpu MHz        : 3319.867
cpu MHz        : 3319.864
cpu MHz        : 3319.632
cpu MHz        : 3319.410
cpu MHz        : 3319.386
cpu MHz        : 3314.988
cpu MHz        : 3306.130

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

tried with all 24 cores assigned to VM, score went to shit as it juggled host/guest stuff.

Tried with 22 cores assigned to VM. Cracked 30,000 in R23.

I went into the BIOS and set the cTDP and PowerPackageLimit to 200watts, which is the CPU's rated TDP limit. Total system power draw hit 400w during the R23 runs. Eeek!

C:\Users\third\Desktop\CB_R23>start /b /wait "parentconsole" Cinebench.exe g_CinebenchCpuXtest=true"
Application start      : 05/01/22 at 21:15:22
Executable             : 64 Bit
Version / Build        : 23.200 / RBBenchmark330542
OS version             : Windows 10, 64 Bit, Professional Edition (build 22000)
Processor              : 44(44)x AMD EPYC 7443P 24-Core Processor
Computer name          : Win11VM
Unique OS identifier   : PRklEIxWq6AI-K7ESk7e-ni41rJBVXfiP81IIFMR3h0= [uefi]
Thread Count           : 44
CPU Speed (MHz)        : 2850.000
Application Type       : Modular
Command line arguments : "g_CinebenchCpuXtest=true"

CINEBENCH AUTORUN
Please wait until all tests are done!

Running Multiple CPU Render Test...
Minimum test duration: 0.0 ns seconds.
Rendering...
Values: {30400.031} -> Avg/Deviation: 30400.031/0.000
CB 30400.03 (0.00)

 

[S8ER01Z]

Because way to rich fucks who just need the best of the best so they can run solitaire and suck at it.

I feel attacked… ?

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

What a fucking clusterfuck this company is.

I ordered 6 32GB modules to install in my new server. This would give me 192GB of ram in a 6 channel memory configuration. 32GB modules cost about $150, but a 64GB module was like $390. And honestly, I didn't think I'd ever be going beyond 256GB of ram. Unless some time down the line I found a rippin' deal on a 64 core EPYC.

It cost me about $150 per module, I bought 6. Thats $900 on RAM. 9 fucking hundred dollars.

Once I discovered the ram module as bad, and confirmed it using the process below, I contacted the company, asked for a refund, then purchased a 7th module so I could have it faster. So now I've spent $1050 on ram.

The replacement module is ALSO bad. The companies request is that I return the RAM module to them and they will test it before refunding my money. So that means they want me to spend an additional $150, bringing the total on RAM spent to $1300, and then wait for them to refund me $300?

on top of that they want me to PAY SHIPPING to send the modules back to them. So they want me to eat the cost of shipping, in addition to the fucking 5.5 hours I've spent confirming the damned ram is bad.

So far to verify the Module is bad I have done the following. My Mobo has 8 DIMM slots, labeled A1 to H1. Ordered D1, C1, B1, A1 >>> CPU <<< E1, F1, G1, H1

I removed all the ram, and took a known good module, and installed it into D1. Then fully booted the server to TrueNAS OS (a nearly 6 minute process). Then I shut the server down, moved the Dimm from D1, to C1, repeated the boot.

I did this for EVERY SINGLE STICK OF RAM. All 5 good ones, and 2 bad ones..

7 times 8 is 56. That is 56 boot cycles at 6 minutes a pop. I spent FIVE AND A HALF HOURS testing ram.

Do you know what I found? The original BAD DIMM, and the replacement bad DIMM would NOT let the server boot at all. It reported no RAM was installed. It did not matter WHAT slot I used.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So, I was kind of wondering why the Handbrake speed was only breaking even mostly with my Ryzen 5800x. We are talking 8 cores vs 24 cores. Even though the Single threaded performance of Ryzen 5 is about 15% faster, the EPYC has 3x the cores to do work with.

Turns out Handbrake has a limit, a limit I've NEVER had the opportunity to see because not many people have enough cores to show it.

Handbrake.fr gets inefficient with more than 8 threads. So, they introduced a solution. Multi-queue encoding. Aka, if you've got the hardware, you can encode MORE than one job at a time.

So since I have 3x the cores, I set it to 3 encodes.

My VM's CPU went from 25% to 100% usage. . Its now fully loaded and RIPPING through the encodes.

When its encoding just a single file, notice all the idle on the cores. They are bored. They must be entertained.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Look. At. All. The. Cores.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I have more power tuning to do for the CPU, with these server chips you can't really "overclock" them. What AMD does offer you though is power tuning to allow higher TPD and Package Power limits. Right now I've got it set at a 225w TDP allowance, 200w is stock.

So far I've been testing, and I've gotten the All core boost up from 3.2ghz to 3.5ghz with a 50°C core. Thats cool as a cucumber. I'm slowly increasing the limits and watching the CPU info under load to see when/where it benefits. I'll probably run some more tests around the 230-240w TDP and see where the temps lie. I don't think I'll go further than that. If I can get it to a solid 3.8ghz or so, that will be one insane package. Giving me probably an additional 15% performance over stock limits.

I have the cooling capability to deal with it. I will probably thermally limit the boost so it stays under 80°C. Most desktop chips and such start throttling around 90°, but I like to keep them under 80*C.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I have no idea what any of this means, but it sounds fast AF.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Kinda wish server talk was in its own thread……

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Well, it is a computer. Whether it’s a TI-99/4a, TRS-80, or a new server. The thread topic covers all of that.

Just because it is not understood by all doesn’t mean it should be discriminated against, or ridiculed by calling someone or a group of people “nerds” in a derogatory sense.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Well, it is a computer. Whether it’s a TI-99/4a, TRS-80, or a new server. The thread topic covers all of that.

Just because it is not understood by all doesn’t mean it should be discriminated against, or ridiculed by calling someone or a group of people “nerds” in a derogatory sense.

I use you nerds as a term of knowing more than me about the topic. Not derogatory at all. I’d call you toggaf or cunt if I wanted to be derogatory.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

A server is just a computer that does more shit. But you can use it like a computer if you want.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

A server is just a computer that does more shit. But you can use it like a computer if you want.

Yea but us basic bitch computer owners aren’t doing what you’re doing at home. It’s mostly you just posting your home setup non stop. Would be nice to have YOUR build in your own thread imo.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

If I wanted to make a build thread I would, but I don't. So I post it here, you can ignore it, or you can read it. I don't care. This thread has always been posted in like this, someone buys some stuff, sometimes its a longer adventure, sometimes just a single post.

And once this thing is stable, I probably won't post about it any more. So you'll just have to be an adult and ignore it if you don't like it.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

If I wanted to make a build thread I would, but I don't. So I post it here, you can ignore it, or you can read it. I don't care. This thread has always been posted in like this, someone buys some stuff, sometimes its a longer adventure, sometimes just a single post.

And once this thing is stable, I probably won't post about it any more. So you'll just have to be an adult and ignore it if you don't like it.

Don’t have to get your panties in a bunch there guy. I made a comment and you’re fucking crying about it

I’d rather see someone’s first desktop build than you posting non stop boring shit. Is what it is

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Lord Tin Foilhat FESTER665 and any other Ubiquiti believer. My current spaghetti for our new Nashville office.

I need to outfit my new house with this shit. I’m loving it.

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[SpeedSpeak2me]

Lord Tin Foilhat FESTER665 and any other Ubiquiti believer. My current spaghetti for our new Nashville office.

I need to outfit my new house with this shit. I’m loving it.

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I am really tempted to go cheap POE for the house my dad just purchased. I'd rather get in the house now before they move it to get it all done, but have never done any of it. Need it to be robust enough where I don't have to keep checking on it, but simple enough that I could talk my dad through troubleshooting if necessary. Would be one or two AP's, then a few security cameras.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Lord Tin Foilhat FESTER665 and any other Ubiquiti believer. My current spaghetti for our new Nashville office.

I need to outfit my new house with this shit. I’m loving it.

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I really want to condense everything I have into 1- 48 port POE ubiquiti switch.....but its fucking like $800.

Their stuff is solid in general. I haven't had to touch anything network related in a long time and it gets pretty regular firmware updates. I have their 8 port poe unifi switch, a few different types of APs (all have been solid, but the "in-wall" was meh for my purposes) and an edgerouter X.

I will say to wait on FW upgrades though. I haven't personally had any issues, but its one of those "latest version, latest bugs" deals.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I am really tempted to go cheap POE for the house my dad just purchased. I'd rather get in the house now before they move it to get it all done, but have never done any of it. Need it to be robust enough where I don't have to keep checking on it, but simple enough that I could talk my dad through troubleshooting if necessary. Would be one or two AP's, then a few security cameras.

ubiquiti is pretty fucking close to set it and forget it. Has a learning curve just because its more small business oriented vs home consumer, but its worth it. Reliability is very good.

you can take it one step further and monitor/connect to it remotely as well.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I really want to condense everything I have into 1- 48 port POE ubiquiti switch.....but its fucking like $800.

Their stuff is solid in general. I haven't had to touch anything network related in a long time and it gets pretty regular firmware updates. I have their 8 port poe unifi switch, a few different types of APs (all have been solid, but the "in-wall" was meh for my purposes) and an edgerouter X.

I will say to wait on FW upgrades though. I haven't personally had any issues, but its one of those "latest version, latest bugs" deals.

In a small-medium scale build, they're rock fucking solid.

We use it for 60+ enterprise sites.

This last update made a handful of switches report offline to the controller but I SSH'd through other means and they were alive and responding on the network. Quick "ssh 172.x.x.x" on another unit, "reboot" and they all reappeared to the controller.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I programmed one AP and stuck it at the Wive's moms house.....shits been running standalone, no controller, for a couple years now.

1 AP lite, $100, center of 3000 sq ft house, hits every device and just fucking runs like it should.

 

[FESTER665]

Lord Tin Foilhat FESTER665 and any other Ubiquiti believer. My current spaghetti for our new Nashville office.

I need to outfit my new house with this shit. I’m loving it.

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We just had our 48 port POE switch from them give us trouble and the IT company recommended replacing it with a Juniper one.

Needless to say Im taking the 48 port Unifi switch home to see if it just needed an update.

It would need to be rebooted every other day because the switch would seem to lose power or something. Like the power ring wouldn't be lit (usually blue glowing is good) but the lights on the ports would be working.