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mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend
AMD won't be getting into data centers with any significance for at least a couple of years. Brand new architectures and platforms need time to drivers sorted before trusting production level workloads. I have a raging AMD fan boy boner right now too, but typical hardware cycles are 3-5 years, and there will be a lot of hesitance on this new platform until real world data is available.

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mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend

Truga posted:

This is a bit old cause I didn't follow this thread as closely as I should in the last three weeks but...


The HPC people I'm talking to are standing in a loving line to get AMD into their datacenters right now, dumping intel and their CUDA apps, just to get on the Zen APU train a bit earlier, because big clients like CERN etc are breathing down their neck about it. What the poo poo are you on about?

I didn't mention anything about HPC, which is not a majority part of the physical datacenter market. I can assure you running VMware, or any other enterprise grade hypervisor/stack, on a brand new chipset in production without proper support is going to be a really bad time.

mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend

Gwaihir posted:

Pre-orders opening a week before review NDAs are lifted is such bullshit rofl.

It's almost like they targeting the same customers that put stupid amounts of money down on special edition game pre-orders without reviews.....

mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend
My old wireless router is the Guest/IoT router that is connected to segregated network in pfsense which only allows access to the internet aside from a couple of servers that have specific ports back to specific servers. That way I don't have to worry about someone's haxed phone or infected laptop getting on my internal network and loving my poo poo up.

As for actual CPU chat, i'm working on making rips of my Blu-Ray discs for Plex in Handbrake, and I am finally starting to feel the pain of my 2500k because it does not have AVX2. From what I could find, Kaby Lake will give me about 25% improvement, but really that's not worth the cost. I'd rather have 6+ core proc, so I am still waiting out the Ryzen 7 motherboard and potential stepping to see how that shakes out, and while I'm waiting, seeing what the x399 (or whatever its called) and the new Intel HEDT platform looks like.

I've been itching to replace this box without a good reason, and I finally feel like I can justify it better. Now back to the waiting game.

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