homelab.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/MischievousM0nkey on 2024-05-26 05:33:53.

Anyone running a Epyc Milan 64 core (like a 7763 or 7713) for their homelab? What do you use it for and how's the power usage?

I have the opportunity to buy such a CPU for what I consider to be a decent price, and I don't mind the cost of building a new server. But I can't see how I going to use that many cores.

Right now, I run probably around 15 VMs across 8 cores. It's not super fast, but definitely fine for home. I do want to add a U.2 SSD disk array for NAS, so an upgrade to Milan has always been the plan. But I was targeting more like 7443 instead of 64 core. If I build a new server, it would include at minimum 256 GB of RAM and 25gbe networking, with possible upgrade to 100gbe down the road if switches become more affordable.