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by leeter 6y ago
Oh probably and even if you did find one that works "well" you'd have to buy a ton of them to ensure you have backups. I'm well aware of the issues. But without an alternative or a grant to update the hardware what do yo
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by leeter 6y ago
Reading this... my first thought was "But newer x86 can.... oh right ISA..." then I googled for USB ISA slots... and they are apparently a thing. That doesn't mean someone wouldn't need to write a new driver but at least
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by leeter 6y ago
Exactly this, you can even look at the old consoles and see the same thing. They were built to a VERY specific margin and tuned for the same. There is as best I can tell no fat in any of the systems shipped except newer consoles and the ori
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by leeter 6y ago
It's cents... but consider this. Linux is run on devices embedded in just about everything. Places where even doubling from 128 to 256MB of flash ROM could seriously hurt margins. So as the old saying goes.. a penny here and penny ther
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by leeter 6y ago
Unfortunately WINE can't just take the windows shim mechanism that largely just nukes these from orbit on binary load and removes the check all together. Maybe at some point MS will be more open about that.
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by leeter 6y ago
You'd be surprised, MS doesn't do this randomly. They'd rather break a game if the game is actively in production or the company is around. They only put in shims for applications if the vendor isn't still in business us
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by leeter 6y ago
MS has always held that system calls are not guaranteed ABI stable. So any application doing this is subject to breakage at any time. That said I wouldn't be surprised if they are doing something not to dissimilar to this for those pro
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by leeter 6y ago
From corporate spying yes. However GDPR contains specific carve outs for national security, Police, etc.
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by leeter 6y ago
People forget that the reason this happens is that most countries have laws against spying domestically. They usually don't have laws prohibiting them from taking data from other spy agencies spying on their own country. So the cheap a
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by leeter 6y ago
This reminds me of something Joel Spolsky said awhile back[1] "Never Rewrite from Scratch". I stand by that too.. even if it's a legacy mainframe app it's probably better to use strangler pattern if you really need to ex
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by leeter 6y ago
Possible, I kinda doubt they would as Intel could just cut them off at the knees as they threatened MS with for the Surface Pro X. There is the remote possibility they are licensing from Intel too. At the end of the day I doubt they are goi
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by leeter 6y ago
True, but they did have the license IIRC. Otherwise they'd be licensing from VIA or whomever owns that license now. That license AFAIK would include up to SSE4. It's not like Apple is going to tell us. But the JIT nature makes me
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by leeter 6y ago
RE AVX and above: My guess is that they are licensing the Transmeta IP which doesn't include those licenses IIRC. So unless they wanted to get sued they'd have to be careful. I suspect some SSE instructions may also not be support
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by leeter 6y ago
It comes from the fact that KNL came from Larrabee which was actually developed as a GPU initially (and even ran games... sort of) but was never actually released. The next revision of that was the Xeon Phi chips you used. So the connection
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by leeter 6y ago
Oh agreed, but honestly what makes this so interesting is how tuned it is. I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen Intel or AMD ship an HPC CPU with on package HBM2 yet.
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by leeter 6y ago
So looking at anandtech's breakdown the CPUs are closer to a knights landing 'CPU/GPU' than a traditional CPU (currently). They also have a ton of HBM2 right next to the dies so this should be insanely fast as they can f
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by leeter 6y ago
Real world? AFAIK no not yet. The issue is that traditional benchmarks don't really tell the whole story. IPC isn't directly comparable because ARM is ostensibly RISC (this is debatable I'm aware) and Intel is CISC (also deba
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by leeter 6y ago
I think it is as well, honestly the DX12 part of this is DOA as far as I'm concerned because it's not open source. So that leaves the better support for other APIs as the key delivered feature. Could MS fix that by setting DX12 up
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by leeter 6y ago
Unless you're streaming or doing something that is causing you to be CPU bound? Unlikely. At a minimum I'd wait for the Zen 3 parts at this point.
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by leeter 6y ago
So GN looked at it, the lack of the IGPU basically killed the i3-9100F in premiere pro as did the lower base clock; even compared to the 3100. The i5 parts seem to do better particularly the 9600K (I don't see the 9400F which again wou
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by leeter 6y ago
So for that it's "Easier" because you check the VRM spec for the socket for server. That's the maximum draw the manufacturer expects any CPU for that socket to ever pull. Then generally most of the higher end parts will
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by leeter 6y ago
Even that is specific to that chip/mobo/PSU/Case/CPU cooler setup. So unless you match what was used in the article your mileage will vary a lot.
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by leeter 6y ago
> So where do I find the actual maximum power consumption on recent desktop CPUs then? Unfortunately you do this by putting it on a motherboard and and generally putting an amp meter on the 12v EPS rail. Either that or just power from wa
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by leeter 7y ago
I'm curious too because looking at pictures of the VRM it looks like it has less output filtering. My guess is that the board firmware tells the CPU to be less aggressive until it can deliver the power because it has a less overbuilt V
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by leeter 7y ago
To me this smells 100% like a transient issue, Gigabyte probably assumed that more phases would wipe the transient response time out. The issue is that if you're shutting down phases as Buildzoid mentions you'd have to do to get e
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by leeter 7y ago
That was one of the few that I thought could handle the 64/128 part. However look at the output filtering: It's roughly the same if not a cap or two larger as what you'd find on x299... which is a higher voltage and thus has
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by leeter 7y ago
I remember when Buildzoid of AHOC did the mobo breakdowns of the TR4 boards and thinking that while some of the super high end boards were probably good for this sort of beating, the mid and low range might struggle hard with the 64/12
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by leeter 7y ago
That is incorrect, the thermal protection circuits operate well in advance of the actual junction death temperature. Usually 20C or so minimum on mobile and more on Desktop. The CPU will throttle like mad first to save itself and then just
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by leeter 7y ago
IIRC it's very CPU dependent. I remember running into a similar issue with memcpy vs. memmove where the latter was actually faster on some CPUs because it used stosb instead of AVX/SSE and some intel CPUs could make that really go
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by leeter 7y ago
It is actually, but it requires AMD or Intel to care. AMD could easily make an AArch64 CPU that is x570 compatible, it would require a BIOS update for sure but they could do it. There is nothing Physically stopping them from making a CPU wi

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