<Running a headless Server (Ryzen) possible?
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Topic: <Running a headless Server (Ryzen) possible?
Posted By: hansi12
Subject: <Running a headless Server (Ryzen) possible?
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 6:07am
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" rel="nofollow - Is any Asrock Mainboard (for Rzen) able to POST without a GPU? I want to run a NAS but dont want the GPU's Power draw (and cost) when i never need a monitor, except during setup. Thanks |
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Posted By: kerberos_20
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 6:17am
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yes and no :) they are able to post without gpu, but integrated gpu has been moved to cpu (like on intel platforms) but unfortunately ryzen doesnt have any gpu, so u need a-serie cpu(bristole ridge) so at this moment those boards need dedicated gpu with ryzen |
Posted By: hansi12
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 6:30am
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" rel="nofollow - If you say they are able to POST in your first sentence, why do you say they still need a gpu in your last sentence? |
Posted By: kerberos_20
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 6:47am
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my english is just bad :) |
Posted By: ssateneth
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 8:02am
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The system still needs a display adapter of some sort, be it an expansion card, or integrated into the CPU (Current Ryzen chips do not have one). You don't need a monitor but you still need some sort of graphics processor. If you have an A6-9500 or A8-9600 CPU, which have an iGPU, then you can run without a graphics card, otherwise you will need to purchase a GPU (anything will work, as long as it's a GPU) ------------- MB: X399 Taichi, UEFI L3.32 VGA: EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 PSU: Seasonic PRIME 1300 W PLATINUM CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X MEM: 4x16GB, 3600MHz G.Skill Trident Z F4-3600C17Q-64GTZKW |
Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2018 at 9:37pm
He is right, mobo will not POST w/o some sort of GPU. Monitor is optional. Hell, you can always plop some 1050 or some absolutely entry level GPU and it won't even touch the PSU juice. ------------- 1700X ZP-B1 (stock); X370 Taichi (UEFI 3.10); 16GB F4-3200C14-8GFX XMP; 256GB 960 EVO; RX 580 NITRO+ 8GB |
ssateneth wrote:Posted By: hansi12
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 3:15am
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hmm okay then. Makes Intel attractive again :P Although ive read someone can run without gpu, he had a certain asus atx board and flipped a BIOS setting. |
Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 3:21am
Maybe you've been living under a rock the last few days?  Cough, Spectre, cough, Meltdown, cough, ME... I ain't touching Intel with a 6-foot stick! ------------- 1700X ZP-B1 (stock); X370 Taichi (UEFI 3.10); 16GB F4-3200C14-8GFX XMP; 256GB 960 EVO; RX 580 NITRO+ 8GB |
Posted By: php42
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 3:30am
to be fair, AMD is also vulnerable to meltdown, it's an abuse of speculative execution which is present in most modern processors AMD also has their own variant of ME still i would agree that AMD is the safer bet :P EDIT: i should mention that AMD is indeed less vulnerable to meltdown, and so is the safe bet for security reasons
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Posted By: zlobster
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 3:59am
Sadly, yes. That's why KPTI has to be implemented as well. AMD have been kicking in performance & price/performance as well. Only their discrete graphics are a bit behind now. Can't have it all, I guess?  We hijacked this thread good, no? Sorry, OP!------------- 1700X ZP-B1 (stock); X370 Taichi (UEFI 3.10); 16GB F4-3200C14-8GFX XMP; 256GB 960 EVO; RX 580 NITRO+ 8GB |
Posted By: SoniC
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2018 at 7:44am
No, AMD CPUs don't need the KPTI fix, see evidence in the kernel commit here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 AMDs need only a fix for Variant 1 -- without big performance hit. The real performance hit comes from Variant 3 and AMD is not affected. ------------- -=SoniC=- TR x1950, ASRock X399 FPG (v. 3.33A), G.Skill 3200 CL14 64GB, Enermax LiqTech 280, AMD Vega 64 LC, 10x HDDs (mostly Hitachi), 2x M.2 (970EVO,960Pro), Xonar DX, AX1200i PSU |
Posted By: nallar
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2018 at 1:21am
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At least some of ASRock's AM4 motherboards do work headless. There's a discussion here on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ur5ni/dear_am4_users_can_you_boot_without_a_gpu_and_if/" rel="nofollow - https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/7ur5ni/dear_am4_users_can_you_boot_without_a_gpu_and_if/
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