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And who do you think is buying all the EPYC and Xeon Gold chips? Hint: It's not single users running desktop apps. These chips are primarily used for...

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Are there many folks running Windows on a chip like this? I would think Xeon Gold and EPYC are more often used as hypervisors in multi-tenant environments,...

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More like, Friends don't let friends use intel CPU's, lol.

AMD is going to rack up a lot more EPYC sales once these new mitigations hit the...

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That seems very reasonable. I will definitely be building one of these, probably 8 core, which I think is only ~$200 more than quad....

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Those are decent specs... but I'd rather have 32 cores / 64 threads and 80 MB of cache for $200 less. But at least it's not another $1000 quad core.

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Meh, what self-respecting Linux geek uses a mouse with 'Microsoft' written on it? Yuck. You might as well just give up, install Win10, and start playing...

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Lol, what x86 dominance in super computers? Only 4 of the top 10 largest supercomputers in the world are x86. The x86 supercomputer fad died in the last...

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This was the case for a while, even for x86_64, when that was the new thing. It'll come....

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POWER chips have been very competitive against x86 for many years now. The fastest supercomputer in the world runs RHEL on POWER. ...

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Sure, I was referring more to the terminology. wizard69 said he hasn't heard much about Altivec lately. My point was more that it hasn't gone away, rather...

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Why? I'm genuinely curious. When the CIA wanted to build the SR-71, they didn't say "Hi, this is the CIA, we need a metric crap-ton of the purest...

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I assume you're referring exclusively to AVX 512? AMD has had performant 128 and 256 bit AVX extensions for years now. Which real world applications (i.e....

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Like intel's MMX being superseded by SSE3/4, Altivec has been superseded by the newer VMX and VSX on Power ISA....

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"Best CoC" is right up there with "Best Hemorrhoid"....

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Why not? Doesn't do all that much anyways. The performance impact of spectre/meltdown mitigations is probably larger than the hit for disabling HT....

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Did you type this post on your definition of "open ecosystem" machine? Or are you just blowing smoke?...

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^ Sounds like someone is not the target demographic. Why pay $40k for a new BMW when you can buy a used honda civic for $9k?

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No kidding, wow, those cases are freaking beautiful. I want!!...

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Huh? Previous intel chips have been benchmarked numerous times for Spectre/Meltdown performance impact, no need to rehash it at this point. This article...

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RDIMM = Registered. The motherboard must be designed specifically to interface with RDIMMs. Usually it's the 2+ socket rack-mount servers that require...