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System76 Launches Threadripper Workstations
- webpaymentsguy 7y agoAs far as ads go, this was the most convincing sell I've seen for a high end computer in a long time. Good job to whoever is doing the marketing.
- zmmmmm 7y agoPerhaps to their target market ... I looked at it and thought 'hmmm, 44 seconds to do a simple image transform sounds pretty slow ....'. I assume it was a very high resolution image or thousands of slices or something but without them stating those metrics it was a bit meaningless to me. edit: OK I downloaded the image and see it's gigantic ... I reckon they should at least hint at that for the folks who are not quite over the threshold of spending the time to do their experiment ...
- deedree 7y agoThe universe is big..
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- gexla 7y agoI was almost convinced to follow their steps to compile he Linux kernel out of curiosity to see how my machine stacks up. ;)
- rdsubhas 7y agoI thought the exact opposite. 44 seconds to do a circular motion blur (without any context) as the headline, huh??? What would an average person reading that think? Of course, after downloading the universe image (which itself took a long time), then it's kind of understandable. Otherwise, it's just confusing as hell. "44 seconds to radial blur the universe" would have at least been better.
- webmobdev 7y agoCurious - why does it have "Rear Audio - 5 x Audio Jacks"?
- aidenn0 7y agoJust a guess, but 7.1 uses 4 stereo jacks, plus a line in.
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- personjerry 7y agoOr build it yourself and save $2000
- ekianjo 7y agoThis is not for end users. COmpanies usually don't expect you to build your system: they want to order something all configured. And the offering for AMD in big shops is still lacking (last i checked Lenovo's workstations were still mainly equipped with Xeons).
- Adutude 7y agoI bought one of their laptops a few year ago. I needed a new power supply as the cable had frayed that came w/ the unit. I wanted to get the original cable, so I called and asked "what was the original manufacturer" so I could purchase a new power supply. They would not tell me and they wanted approx. $75 for a replacement from System 76. I peeled the sticker System 76 put on the bottom and found out it was a Clevo. Once I had the original Clevo model number I was able to purchase a new power supply, that worked, for $29 plus shipping. In short, hardware was good and performed well, their Linux integration was awesome (camera, wireless and all the other do-dads worked flawlessly), but IMO they are overpriced and their lack of candor about their re-branding put me off quite a bit. If having your Linux run w/out issues on your hardware purchase is important it might be worth it to you spend the extra $$.
- garry__ 7y agoCan vouch for this I had a very similar issue where they refused to share with me the original manufacturer of the laptop.
- theta_d 7y agoMy Darter Pro had a sticker on the bottom that clearly labeled the Clevo model number.
- bobongo 7y ago> hey refused to share with me the original manufacturer of the laptop My experience differs significantly. Right after I bought mine, I opened a ticket for the model information. They provided me the full model code and hyperlink to maintenance manual with part numbers. This was a few months ago.
- excitednumber 7y agoSystem 76 has pretty good customer support and help entry level folks enter the *nix market, which is cool. Their cases are kinda poop quality tho.
- EdwardDiego 7y agoLiving that case quality story with my System76 laptop as we speak :(
- newnewpdro 7y agoIt's not even a System76 case design for the laptops, those are rebranded Clevos.
- wyxuan 7y agoit could be, because although rebranded clevos make a significant chunk of the market, they often also have some minor design modifications as ordered by the brands,
- akasian 7y agoCan you elaborate on the specific poop? Do they just not hold up?
- bizkeep478 7y agoThese cases are terrible. I have 3 and they are all terrible. The sheet metal is so thin that it warps every time I remove the shell.
- samstave 7y agoI have had several S76 Laptops - and all of them, the cases are plastic and very chintzy. Several had screws fall out inside the case and rattle around, but this is all Clevo's fault... :-( Their support has been fantastic, and although I switched back to other machines - I still would buy one. The bang-for-the-buck on the guts was really good (cant comment on the value of this Threadripper box though...) As an aside; the Michael Dell "How I built this" podcast ep is worth a listen...
- taeric 7y agoOdd that the school render doesn't have the letter Ll on the top.
- lousken 7y agoare they actually selling it just with gigabit ethernet? that's bad
- hermitdev 7y agoMy best guess: because its targeted at home users. Not many home users have access to greater than 1 GB access. I think my router can link supports 1 GB, but I dont know because I rarely transfer files between my computer (Wife is Mac, I'm PC/Linux). My comcast DL is only about 150 Mbps. My nearly 8 yr old PC actually has 1 GBs, but its basically unused.
- lousken 7y agoat 4000+$, yea, it's definitely not for home users and those few ethusiats that will have this at their home will definitely have 10Gbit also your 8 year old facebook machine might be ok with 1Gbit but definitely not this 24-64 core beast, people who use these will definitely benefit from 10Gb it's also not related to internet use as much as connecting it to storage on local network edit: with the 64 core i'd go as far as saying that it should have a 40Gbit option as well
- leoh 7y agoAny info on how this would stack against a Mac Pro of a similar price?
- m0zg 7y agoWould run circles around it pretty much. This tops out somewhere around 10K. With Apple you only get a somewhat decent config by that point, and that's if you choose not to buy $400 wheels.
- erokar 7y agoPlease hire a graphical designer.
- zaat 7y agoI haven't seen what motherboard is used. The storage offered seems to be PCI gen3 only, which I find as weird given the target use and the support in the platform for gen4. They are generally very thin on spec details. Their cases are spectacular,I'll grant them that. Just tried the blur motion affect, completed on my machine in 2 minuets and 40 seconds.
- heelix 7y agoShot that link over to a coworker who was considering building a 3990x. While many parts could be picked up at MicroCenter, very happy to let someone else guarantee a build with a 4.8K cpu/mainboard combo. The early days of getting large memory sets to work with a board were tricky and I wont do that for someone else. Really wish my TR4 boxes... had a future beyond the current 2xxx series cpu. Figured I would swap out the current 1950x and re-use the same water block, pump, etc on the newer CPU. Hardly worth it for the 2950x, which is more or less the end of the road for the threadripper boards I have.
- Filligree 7y agoWhich water block are you currently using? There was a design issue with the one EKWB original had, so they're giving out coupons to people who bought them. I found out when I went to look up whether or not the old one would still work with my new 3960X. (Turns out the answer is: Yes, but only if I limit the max power a bit. Possibly that wouldn't be an issue if I'd ever gotten around to installing the second radiator, but cooling is an issue. Still get 4.3 though.)
- nrclark 7y agoDoes anybody here have a Thelio? I'm curious as to whether they got the fan-noise thing sorted out.
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- Koshkin 7y agoA wooden panel? Air-cooled? Really?
- geuis 7y agoHighly recommend anyone considering buying/building a system with this chip to watch the LTT review. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LaKH5etJoE&t=0s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1LaKH5etJoE&t=0s It’s a mostly positive review but brings up some caveats for consideration.
- csmajorfive 7y agoI bought a System76 workstation last year. Everything about it is great except for one big thing that makes me hate using it: the air cooling is terrible and loud. My room sounds like a wind tunnel even at idle. The response at the time was to futz around with fan controller firmware and I never got anywhere. I don't understand why they don't move to liquid cooling.
- zargon 7y agoIn my experience it is far easier, faster, and more practical to build a silent air-cooled system than a silent water cooled one.
- zozbot234 7y agoWater cooled systems will leak over time, as well. It's just not worth it unless you're purely doing it for the "enthusiast" points and don't mind ending up with a system that's going to take water damage at some point.
- csmajorfive 7y agoPerhaps but we’re talking about buying pre-built systems. I have a silent liquid cooled machine from a few years ago and I have not opened the case even once. So it seems possible if a little pricier.
- faitswulff 7y agoCan an analogous version of any of these benchmarks be performed on macOS?
- peter303 7y agoMaybe Apple will do this for MacBooks in the 2030s. Thats about their pace.
- svd4anything 7y agohttps://www.falcon-nw.com/ https://www.falcon-nw.com/ Just pay a little more and get a higher quality everything from Falcon NW with a threadripper in their Talon.