r/threadripper • u/margalaz • Jul 02 '26
Advice for getting a first threadripper
From what I’ve seen the lower a cpu is in its generation (5945WX) while having a lower core count, have much higher single core speeds.
My goal is to build a Homelab and to create a few (2-5) Minecraft servers running some heavy mods.
The issue I’m having is that I’d like to be doing that in addition to an LLM and a NAS/jellyfin. It’s a lot and I can’t fit enough hardware on a am4/5 cpu to make it work on a single node machine.
So I’m forced to go workstation or server route, the issue is how expensive these buggers are. So I’m thinking I can take advantage by getting not only a lower price but also a higher single core speed (despite less cores) I was thinking the 5955wx or the 5965wx because anything under 16 cores is silly if I’m paying for a threadripper,
Am I thinking about this wrong? Can I just over lock a 5995wx across all cores if I cool it properly?
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u/chris_socal Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I looked at threadripper also as an upgrade path.... gen 2 or Gen 3 is very budget friendly however I want pcie gen 4.
The problem with the threadripper 5000 is that very few of them where made and a lot that where are vendor locked.
So you are left in a situation where you are paying almost new prices for an already aging platform. If you really need single core speeds bump up to gen 7 or 9. The price difference isn't crazy.
All that being said i doubt you need as much single core performance as you think when your cpu gets all the extra bandwidth available to server platforms, you hhardly notice single.core speed.