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For me it was just convenience - I bought a complete workstation (tower) with that CPU in it (and with all its capabilities, like 128 PCIe lanes and 8 memory channels). Does the EPYC server chip use a different socket (?), so I'd have to build a tower workstation from the components myself, a server mobo, server CPU squeezed into a tower?

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Epyc uses SP3, SP5 or SP6 sockets depending on model.

You can get perfectly normal ATX motherboards for Epyc. There's even a mini-ITX one for some reason:

https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=R...

Oh man, That is 100% amazing I am considering buying it for the pure unadulterated sillyness. It's like a v8 motorcycle.

Be careful, sometimes these server boards will be missing stuff that you'll want in a desktop. ASRock Rack boards often have insomnia. That is, they don't support low power states.

> There's even a mini-ITX one for some reason

So that you cat fit 2 motherboards in that 2 CPU setup! a.k.a. redundant motherboards. /s

I once spent a good while trying to figure out why a 2U server wasn't recognizing new drives. No messages, no errors, no lights, nothing.

Finally it turned out that it's not a 2U server with 12 bays, but two separate servers in one box, side by side. Half the bays go to one, half to the other. Each side has two CPUs in it, and one was completely powered off.

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