Comment by wang_li

Comment by wang_li 10 days ago

You can buy a mini pc for less than $550. For $200 on Amazon you can get an N97 based box with 12 GB RAM and 4 cores running at 3 GHz and a 500 GB SATA SSD. That’s got to be as fast as their current build systems and supports the required instructions.

officeplant 10 days ago

Those single memory channel shitboxes aren't even fast enough to be usable during big windows updates let alone used in production.

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wtallis 10 days ago

One channel of DDR5-4800 actually competes pretty well against four channels of DDR3-1333 spread across two chiplets, which was the best Opteron configuration old enough to not have SSE4.1.

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kasabali 8 days ago

not to even mention the "cooling" solutions they have

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1oooqooq 10 days ago

if you don't understand bandwidths and how long componenets can run at the 80pctile before failure, you're out of your element in this discussion.

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