We are thinking in to buy a new server but around here the server motherboards are not easy to get so we are thinking in to buy a mother for an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and a mother for it but since is not a server processor we don't know what to expect.
Currently we have a dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz server that fulfill our needs and now we are looking for something similar o better.
Also we expect to have a better post a boot times.
Another question It is possible to have a second power supply in desktop mother board as a backup for the main one? Worth it?
We never has any trouble with a server PSU.
Best Answer
There is none, particularly when you talk Threadripper, where you CAN plug in ECC memory and where the boards are super high quality.
What you obviously do loose out is KVM capability and premade systems in a decent form factor. I am using Dual EPYC servers in 1U form factor with 12 hard discs (10x2.5" at the front, 2x SATA boot drives on micro style USB sticks, supermicro calls them SataDOM).
Anything that goes into a higher end server in a server room (passive cooling for the CPU, redundant high performance fans, bios integrated fan control, KVM, redundant power supplies) you loose out on, but those are NOT processor issues.
The 39060x is a very fine processor and is very comparable to higher end serve rprocessors, period.