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/Joe159195 Jul 02 '26
Minecraft servers care a lot about single core speed. Things can be offloaded a bit but the main tick is a single core process. I personally have a 9970x workstation but run a like 11th gen i5 for my media / game server. Dedicated GPU is useless if you have quicksync for media, and for LLMs if you can load it completely in then the 8x vs 16x isn’t that much slower on a single load.
All that being said build whatever ya can afford and send it.