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My first time building a home server, i have few questions in mind

I need to build a server to my my virtual machines to, I run a lot of VMs which they use a lot of CPU and memory, for some heavy machine learning sometimes my pc gets slow down and i want to solve this issue by building a home server, not sure if you guys think this is a good idea or no

- My virtual machines run python selenium codes using multi threading, I heard this info is important as there are a lot of CPUs which are made for this, I am not sure which ones

- I need at least 30-50 CPU cores and 64gb-128gb memory

Is this achievable with a budget of 2000$?

Some other questions I had in mind, such a server is going to be noisy? if I placed in it another room is it possible to control it remotly without cables?

If I missed any info please point them out I would love to add more details, thank you

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Have you looked into AMD EPYC?

There are regular deals comming from china with Supermicro Motherboard/CPU/RAM deals:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/134674563486

A setup like this will be a power hog though.

To control it from another room you would use the web interface of whatever OS you are using eg Proxmox. To turn it on you can use Wake On Lan commands/apps on your workstation/phone.

Check out a build video for an EPYC system here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCrldtj9bGY

You have to make sure the cooler you use is rated for the CPU though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0jZ12U3u4A

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- Thank you for sharing this mate, if I understand correctly this is the specs of the link you sent?
  
  scroll a little bit down
  https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-epyc-7702p
  
  it says here:
  64 cores of 128 Threads
  and a lot of other things, but it is really 64 cores?? only for 1400$? if it this is crazy good i guess?
  
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  only for 1400$
  
  I would say that's pretty costly actually for a single CPU board, my full build was 1200$ CAD in July.
  
  Check this vendor on Ebay for board : https://www.ebay.ca/str/tugm4470
  
  It's where I got my Supermicro H11DSi (mind you it's the late 2017 model but not much new in between 2017 and 2019), fast shipping, pretty good price and he has a mix of ready to go combo or just parts if you need to.
  
  I lean more on the Epyc side for the CPUs over Xeon but both are good.
  
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- Plus, is there a way I can make it reach 128gb memory? the only available option is 64gb
  
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  the only available option is 64gb
  
  I'm not saying it looks legit, but the listing definitely has 8*64GB modules - 512GB in total.
  
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Im running a Dual 2690 v4 setup , 30 ish disks , 22 ssd's and 1tb of LRDIMMS in it. ran me about 2200CAD total not including the disks.

usually sits around 260w with a 15-20% load. disks set to spin down (only ssd's active usually).

just parted it together with eBay and local stuff I could find.

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- Hello Greem, the problem is I want to make sure that this is really good for my use case, I am searching your specs atm, thank you for the tip mate
  
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  it was more of an idea of cost.
  
  100% I would go epyc
  
  https://www.ebay.ca/itm/175503345724
  
  48 core epyc 7642 + motherboard. throw in some ram for another 150$ and your on your way to a really good system. tons of expansion.
  
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Are you sure you need that many cores? You can overprovision the light duty VM’s if they aren’t all heavy duty.

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You might also want to consider a 2nd hand workstation with dual cpus like the HP Z840 or equivalent from Dell or Lenovo. They are usually quieter than a rack server and should be within your budget and specs.

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Keep in mind number of cpu cores isn’t a very accurate or complete measure of cpu requirements, 30 - 50 cpu cores from 10 years ago vs 30 cpu cores from current gen cpu’s is significantly different

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I'm fairly curious as why you need "30-50" CPU cores and .. 64-128 GB RAM and to think about what you actually need before making decisions.

I run a "lot" of VMs as well, in fact, I naively migrated a bunch of other smaller servers onto this one because it's OP!!!!!
My main compute server is an HPE Gen 10 with 80 cores and 128 GB RAM and ... I max out with "most", if not all of my VMs on at once around 10 to 15% until it crashes because I'm out of RAM by a doodoo ton.

50 cores sounds pretty overkill for 128 RAM, in my humble-pie opinion.

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- I have 3 VM and around 85 dockers and the 32gb of ram are not enough for the 4 core cpu I have, i7 7700, ram is always over 90% usage
  
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