I think I'm ready for an EPYC system

[HeyItsChris]

Does anyone know what the most powerful/ economical cpu would be for a simple system for gaming but on the side lots of encoding & cpu work.

 

I want at a bare minimum 24c/48t because I want to surpass the 3950x on total compute horsepower, not necessarily IPC.  I just want more than a 3950x/5950x on a budget with a Supermicro motherboard ITX if possible with say 64GB RAM.

 

I'm not sure what my budget is yet but I spent way too much on my 3700X system, at least my parents made me feel that way.

 

I'd prefer a 32c/64t chip on a ITX Supermicro board unless ASUS makes an EPYC board at a bargain value?

Thanks

[bonami2]

A 13900k is mostly your only option. Server cpu are either overpriced or ways too slow.

[HeyItsChris]

I need a lot of threads & I only use AMD hardware & decent AMD EPYC IPC for encoding tasks, primitive encoding tasks like H264, H265, among older stuff as well.

 

It needs to game faster or equal to a 3700x @ 4700Mhz all core but smoke it on any other task.

 

What do you think this board would look like on the back of the IO plate?  I never install an IO plate anyway, just wondering if it would fit even know it says Proprietary.

 

ASRock ROMED4ID-2T

 

 

[HeyItsChris]

So far I got my eyes set on this board, but just not so sure about the RAM & also the cooling of the CPU...  I wanna get the AMD EPYC 7H12 64c/128t chip for like 750 or something like that maybe.  I'm sure it has more power than a 13900k in multi threaded tasks like specifically encoding?

[keeph8n]

What is it you are trying to do? What is budget? 

 

EPYC outside of the last gen or current gen are going to be fairly slow for gaming. 
 

You’ll really need to define what you are working on to have us help you

[HeyItsChris]

Thanks for the reply.  I think I can afford the board, ram, cpu, and cpu cooler.  It's just i'd like to wax a 13900k on multithreaded tasks like for instance any & all CPU only encoding jobs on all Video Converter Applications of any & all types.  One I like to use is Bigasoft Video Converter I think it's called among others thats just one I use on occassion.  I use others more like MediaCoder PRO & Handbrake.  I find the CPU only jobs yield higher quality...