Anyone Linux users out there?

[TJAnonymous]

Well, not meaning to age myself here, but I found this in a desk drawer a while back....

 

[azurbanclucker]

Well, not meaning to age myself here, but I found this in a desk drawer a while back....

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Beer coaster!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Beer coaster!

Your beer actually needs a coaster???

 

[notabitail]

I'm rather found of some of the new stuff. I've got a couple of low powered fanless mini PCs and they're way better than I expected.

What brand?

 

[notabitail]

I mean:

[root@ferrum photos]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 67
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 2999.979
cache size : 1024 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy retpoline
bogomips : 5999.95
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc


Circa 2007. That's my current fileserver.

Do you prefer AMD or Intel?

 

[notabitail]

Well, not meaning to age myself here, but I found this in a desk drawer a while back....

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What about these? They're older than me.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Do you prefer AMD or Intel?

Professionally, Intel until very recently. There was nothing that could touch Xeon for a long time. Now we run a lot of Epyc and we have a lot of bare metal clients who want AMD. We still do more Intel at work but the split is roughly 60/40 now.

Personally, I've always preferred AMD for my home builds. Early issues with heat aside, the price-to-performance point on them has always been something I've been happy with. Multithread in the ryzen era has been a very strong market for AMD in the consumer space, and that's what I'm usually looking for. I'll give up peak single thread performance to make it up on the spread at 2/3 the price (or less)

 

[azurbanclucker]

Your beer actually needs a coaster???

My desk is aluminum. Looks like a plane wing. I don't need the rings, they're a pain to polish out.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I kinda like the new stuff too (those 980 ti's have been swapped for a RX 6800 XT)

 

[azurbanclucker]

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What about these? They're older than me.

I've got the hardware for that.