<story><title>Best CPUs for Workstations</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liuliu</author><text>Updated to 3970x a few days ago. The performance has been good (llvm compiles around 5 minutes!) and it is stable (previous 2920x has soft lockups and have to workaround with idle=halt: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=196683&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bugzilla.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=196683&lt;/a&gt;). Ubuntu 20.04 installed without much issue (other than NVIDIA driver, that&amp;#x27;s a different story).&lt;p&gt;It is still rough though, mostly around the mobo. The Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme mobo doesn&amp;#x27;t work out of the gate: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;gigabyte&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;enatk1&amp;#x2F;gigabyte_trx40_designare_mobo_4gpu_d4_error&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;gigabyte&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;enatk1&amp;#x2F;gigabyte_t...&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;linuxquestions&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ankjfx&amp;#x2F;intel_10g_nic_driver_issues&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;linuxquestions&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;ankjfx&amp;#x2F;inte...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ubuntu 18.04 also has an issue with the dated kernel on 3970x: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;amp;px=Linux-Boot-Threadripper-Zen2MCE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.phoronix.com&amp;#x2F;scan.php?page=news_item&amp;amp;px=Linux-Bo...&lt;/a&gt; that can be workaround by mce=off. Due to combination of that and NVIDIA driver, I did 20.04, and it has been stable so far.</text></comment>
<story><title>Best CPUs for Workstations</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/11891/best-cpus-for-workstations</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>Real high end options only. Apart from the 1920X, that is a steal right now, but the board it needs is not cheap, it&amp;#x27;s a legacy platform, and Threadripper 1 did not work well for some workloads.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d not ignore Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9. If you can work with 128GB ram (and especially if you just want a regular strong system with the usual 16GB) 3700X, 3900X and 3950X are really strong processor and apart from the last one a lot cheaper. Most developers don&amp;#x27;t even need to go that high, not even on a workstation, one based on the Ryzen 5 3600 would not be weak.</text></comment>