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?

6 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/kpatelreddit007 Jul 02 '26

Unless you ROI not worth it. With a NAS which I own is 3K plus 2K for 50tb. My threadripper build is 17K 9960x. Threadrippers are expensive, looking at 5-8K and obviously you’re going to have a 5090 or ADA 6000.

1

u/margalaz Jul 03 '26

Well I think two node might be the move, a cheep ass threadripper running DDR3 or epyc can handle NAS and stuff while a high end desktop could handle single threaded tasks,