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The problem with this strategy is that they often have much lower clock speeds/ IPC, plus they are often quite power-hungry and lose the ability to overclock (t
by velox_io 7y ago
The problem with this strategy is that they often have much lower clock speeds/ IPC, plus they are often quite power-hungry and lose the ability to overclock (that one's subjective). So you do often get bitten by Amdahl's law. However, if it is purely a rendering machine and single-threaded performance isn't an issue, you can get a lot of processing power for the money.
- jankotek 7y agoIt was good complement for light laptop.
- Damogran6 7y agoAnd potentially REALLY NOISY...
- paulmd 7y agoGamersNexus had a fun video playing with a new Epyc server with Wendell from L1Techs... the delta fans on that pull up to 7A. Not 0.7A, 7A. More wattage than your CPU. https://youtu.be/la0_2Kmrr1E?t=164 https://youtu.be/la0_2Kmrr1E?t=164 Not an epyc thing, servers are hilariously loud and I've seen so many posts on selfhosted and homelab about "the wife made me get rid of my R710 because you can hear it in the closet/basement/etc all the time"....