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I have 2 7402's and every 6 months compare the price of 7H12's or something else and a new mb (using DDR4 because that's $20k of RAM) to exceed the performance difference enough to provide a significant value delta, not just an expensive marginal one.

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and...? is it better/cheaper?

I can't really tell what conclusion OP's trying to get to, but I think it's that the price/perf of his (already purchased, devaluing) 7402 CPUs are still holding strong against newer EPYC chips, thus it doesn't make sense for his use case to upgrade to a newer platform, especially since it requires buying a whole new motherboard as well.

A used pair of (24c/48t 2.8GHz) 7402s are ~$700. A single new 7643P (48c/96t 2.3GHz) is $2722.

That's a big difference for 48 cores if you're paying for it yourself. The old ones are circa 2019, so not ancient by any means. Same net L3 cache as well.

You'll find in next week's episode

he still has the 2, so.. the price/perf delta was not good.

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