Comments on: Building 3x Intel Xeon W-3400 Workstation and Servers with the ASUS Pro WS W790E SAGE SE

By: AndyPB

AndyPB — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:34:47 +0000

Hi everyone,
great that I found this article. However, I faced memory issues during a similar build but with 2 4090 GPUs. I used RDIMM ECC memory (64GB DDR5 4800MT/s ECC Reg 2Rx4 Module KTL-TS548D4-64G Server Memory) and was surprised with d2,b7, and b9 codes, all memory-related errors.
Can you give any hints and what memory was used in your setup?

By: jared

jared — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:46:50 +0000

but why was the supermico platform faster. you nonchalantly dropped in that comment as if it was no big deal. well it’s a big deal! lol. is there a simple explanation?

By: JamesZ

JamesZ — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:58:14 +0000

Do these servers support CXL?

By: Park McGraw

Park McGraw — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:03:09 +0000

I am looking at the CPU-Z specs presented in the video at time 00:49, and am trying to figure out why the Intel Xeon w5-3425 (left), the alpha numeric portion not include in the “Name” field near the top of the “Processor” portion of the frame, like it is for the Intel Xeon w9-3495X (right); does not seem to share logic continuity in the “Clocks (Core #0)” portion of the frame, compared to the w9-3495X. The w5-3425, and rated (advertised) at 3.2GHz with a turbo speed of 4.6GHz, being shown to have a “Core Speed” of just 796.00MHz, the “Multiplier” set to only x8.0, given a “Bus Speed” of 99.75MHz, were as the w9-3495X, and rated at 1.9GHz with a turbo speed of 4.8GHz, displays a more understandable “Core Speed” value of 4800.00MHz, the “Multiplier” set to x48, given a Bus Speed of 100.00MHz. Shouldn’t, presuming all settings are basically identical in the BIOS configuration, the CPU-Z report for the w5-3425, with regards to the “Core Speed” read 4600.00MHz, thus consistent with the advertised turbo speed value, the “Multiplier” value set to x46? Please explain what the values in parenthesis mean, the w5-3425 range being from (5.0-32.0), the w9-3495X range being from (5.0-7.0). I would like to see the industry address the legacy (mid 1990’s) “Bus Speed” of ~100MHz-133MHz.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:40:41 +0000

It seems a shame that it has seven PCIe slots but most of them are impossible to use once you put a GPU or three in. So then you use riser cables but GPUs generally fail to fully utilise a 16x slot. Actually maxing this system out for use with HuggingFace AI models would be intriguing but perhaps the hardware to do so doesn’t really exist…?

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:20:08 +0000

You write, “We will quickly note that we had an EPYC Genoa workstation build that our team thought was too cumbersome to really recommend as it was a bear to get working.” Even if not recommended, it would be interesting to hear about the troubles of the parallel Genoa project.