Beancounter Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I'm eager to upgrade my current i5 system to a SR7 Zen CPU when it's released. I currently run 2 VM's (Win10, Win2012 Server, 6 dockers (crashplan, sickrage, couch potato, deluge, headphones, ftpd) and the system is brought to its knees at times when the dockers all align their daily routines while I'm streaming a movie or gaming on my home theater setup. Will unRaid support AMD AM4/Zen CPU's at or shortly after launch? Assuming Zen compatibility shortly after launch, would it be a simple matter of making note of the drive order, switching out the cpu/mb and rebooting unraid? I assume the license would require an update. Quote Link to comment
bubbl3 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Licensing is on the UUID of the boot USB drive, assuming hw compatibility, you just need to swap cpu/mobo/ram and boot. Quote Link to comment
Unqualified Spectator Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Like yourself, I would like to move to the Ryzen AM4 Platform, but from what I've read, one of the requirements for the platform is some dependency on Win 10. (As I understood the article, it appears that both Intel and AMD have agreed to this OS dependency - I've tried to find out more about it but no luck yet. I hope it is disinformation.) I don't know if that is just consumer level boards or if it extends to the server motherboards as well. If the dependency is embedded within the Ryzen architecture, it may be a bit before any Linux replatforming is achieved. I have long anticipated running a 8 core machine with hopefully embedded AMD Graphics chipsets for a total Ryzen/AM4 unraid solution. I cannot believe that AMD would have allowed this dependency to occur - it limits their market and that is a problem that they do not need. AMD needs sales and mindshare after a long hiatus from competition. Another issue is that we do not yet have a clear picture of the number of PCIe lanes and USB/SATA ports supported by AM4. We'll just have to wait and see what shakes out, but we should have some actual motherboards and CPUs in the next 2 quarters. Quote Link to comment
John_M Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 You have it back to front. There is no dependency on Windows 10. It's simply that Microsoft is not planning to put any effort into supporting Zen (or Kaby Lake, for that matter) in Windows 7 and 8.1. Of course Linux will run on Zen! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/02/windows_intel_kaby_lake_amd_zen/ Quote Link to comment
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