/tech/ - Technology★

>>884137 (OP)

also, what are you stories of spoiled kids with overcompensating technology?

I knew a kid with a HP blackbird when it came out and he used it for Warcraft kek.

>Intel-Aviv Zion

no thank you

>>884137 (OP)

I got two opteron 6172s with coolers for 40$. They aren't affected by meltdown, nor intel ME, nor amd PSP. 24 cores for dirt cheap. They were about equal to 6 core socket 1366 xeons. Now the meltdown patches should make the xeons slower.

Mobos are fucking expensive now though. I missed the opportuninty in summer to get one for 90$-100$, and now even the shit ones are over 130$ + shipment to europe.

>>884151

The money you might save, will end up being spent on electrical bill.

>>884158

I have 3 reasons:

- It's not like it will run 24/7. It will just be a compute machine. Much cheaper than buying a GPU for OpenCL. ( at least nowadays, even old crap is getting freakishly expensive )

- They are not significatly power hungier than those old xeons. ( 130W TDP isn't high for 12 cores from that time - core 2 extremes were from the same TDP class)

- Wanted to build a cheapo dual cpu machine for a long time. It's a hobby project. ( also for practicing programming for NUMA ).

Other than these reasons, you are right about costs.

>>884162

Sure, but you could assemble an even cheaper machine by simply buying whatever AMD FX processor you want, and be also able to find used motherboards for not much.

They still have a moderate amount of cores and limited TDP.

I build a quad 6 core K10 AMD system. Someone had a ton of them for sale, they didn't even know the model name, just the model number. So they were really cheap since he didn't know what they were. I got 4 of them for about $40 total. It was a beast, but it's actually slower at rendering than my OCed Ryzen 1700x. now. It was fun while it lasted, though.

I thought about an older Piledriver Opteron system, but I don't think the prices have come down enough yet. But I think with Meltdown, Xeon prices will drop pretty quickly. I imagine there's a lot of Xeons out there powering really sensitive stuff, like banks, and they want to get rid of them as fast as possible.

>>884181

Why would you buy an insecure piece of shit while funding fucking banks?

>>884170

Sure, but I was in a special situation. I got 32GB DDR3 for 50$, a case which can accommodate for EATX mobos for free, and I could get a mobo with bent pins for free. I couldn't repair the mobo ( almost got it right but failed in the end and gave up), and while messing with the pins ( I spent 2 weeks on it ) the good deals on G34 mobos went away.

About the FX route: two computers would consume more power and I'd need at least two of those machines to match this one.

I could either get two prebuilt ones ( 150$ at least per machine ) - it would be a little cheaper but usually with worse PSU and memory. Or I could get 2 PSUs, 2 2 HDDs, non-ecc used memory is significantly more expensive, I'd need two cases ( I didn't have two of them at that time ).

All in all: I risked some money by doing this, but I thought I could manage. Still, it was a valueable experience and I don't regret it too much. I'll just wait for another good deal.

>falling for the pre-sandy bridge meme

There is no potential. Reddit needs to leave.

>>884210

>not using Core2Duo on Libreboot machines

>>884211

>not using Pentium I pre-MMX hardware you found in a dumpster

Step it up you pleb.

>>884258

You could tell them to put it on an ARM SBC to save space and energy

>>884137 (OP)

BEOWULF CLUSTER

>>884282

>I have free electricity

Lucky you

>>884286

>not stealing your neighbors' electricity

>>884289

>being a bio-luminescent nigger

>>884277

amr isn't excluded from the botnet.

>>884560

A53-based boards do not employ speculative execution and so are safe from spectre/meltdown

>wee-woo attention cheap 1366 xeons on ebay!

hello! 2014 called, they want their "insights" back

>>884306

>getting high on petrol and blowing your brother

>>884578

They are also non-out of order and are slow as fuck

>>885185

we're talking about replacing a fucking 486 here

>>884137 (OP)

>10yo tech is cheap

mind blown

>>884137 (OP)

The 775 mobos support 771 chipsets with a easy trick for old computers if someone want to upgrade is a cheap way

>>884289

>not generating electricity using kidnapped chink children that you work to death for maximum profit.

LMAO NIGGA

Terry Davis' former workstation, Black Satan, had a Xeon and 128 gigs of RAM.

>>889139

Tell me more.

>>889139

>128 gigs of RAM.

And I thought I was hot shit with 32. I was when I bought the mobo/RAM

>>884282

GNU Parallel:

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/.

>>889139

If your going to run TempleOS whats the point?

>>889154

and all i got was this lousy shirt/mug