I’m running 2 Proxmox nodes in an HA Cluster with dual E5-2697A V4’s and while it works great it’s making my office rather warm.
The 9124 isn’t cheap, however, it has a 200W TDP and has a higher benchmark with just 1 of them compared to my dual Xeon setup. It’s $1150 though which is kind of sucky, however, it should kick out much less heat I’d think?
Is anyone using this CPU or the other 2 I listed below? They are $1600-$2000 though.
Supermicro H13SSL-N Motherboard - https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13ssl-n
AMD EPYC 9124 - https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9124
or
AMD EPYC 9224 - https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9224
or
AMD EPCY 9254 - https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-9254
ETA: The Supermicro H13SSL-NT is the same as the H13SSL-N except that it has 10Gbe, however, it’s $120 more expensive. I don’t need it as I use SFP+ with fiber everywhere at the moment.
What are you doing in your “homelab” that needs a $2000 CPU? If you don’t need the PCIe lanes or memory bandwidth, get a Ryzen for 1/8th the cost and a third of the platform power requirement. You’ll get better single core IPC anyway, which is still king.