Recent content by Zarathustra

They probably wouldn't want to, but if it were a requirement it would be a **** good motivator to keep MSRP models in stock. And if AIB's couldn't ship above MSRP models unless they had MSRP models available that would be a **** good motivator for them to keep enough of those available too...

Rather than requiring that at least one MSRP model exists, the requirement should be that an MSRP model must be in stock at any time any non-MSRP model is in stock, so that 100% of buyers have a choice between basic MSRP models and more premium above MSRP models.

This is an interesting chart, but I don't claim to understand what the different categories in SPECWorkstation (Product Development, Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, Energy, General operations) actually mean and what they are doing and measuring in these tests. The 9100 sure looks...

yeah, the RND4k Q1T1 tests are usually very limited by CPU core speed. Stick an Optane in an older system, and it can't really take advantage of it. Even in my Threadripper 3960x, I can't fully take advantage of all of the performance of the Optane DC p5800x in 4kRND Q1T1.

Wow. I never noticed there was a separate mode for NVMe either. I'm going to have to check that out. The high queue depth RND4K (Q32T16) read numbers for this drive are beastly, but the low queue depth RND4k Q1T1 appear somewhat stagnant. They have been at 85MB/s or thereabouts for 2-3...

Yeah, I was looking at this only because I already have the motherboard, and figuring a drop-in might be cheap. But for most people - even those doing CPU compute - I bet a AM5 9950x is a way better buy. Its 16 cores should definitely outperform the 24 cores in my Threadripper 3960x, and...

I've been considering that. The $500 pricetag is a little steep. Maybe I'll do it as an upgrade once the rest of the project is done. I have a host of NVMe drives already that I can use. The combined system right now has the following drives: - One 800GB Optane p5800x (Boot) - Two 2TB...

As an aside, For ****s and giggles, I decided to check eBay to see if there were any cheap 64C/128T Threadripper 3990x CPU's available. I don't really need one, but I have habit of when a platform starts getting older, just picking up the top CPU and dropping it in for ****s and giggles. I...

Figures. I went to Microcenter last night, and while they still have plenty of 9950x3d's and 9800x3d's, they are out of the MSI MAG x870e MAG Tomahawk motherboard. They had 50+ of them according to the website when I last checked, but apparently they included them in a bundle, and apparently...

There's been another little setback. Not directly related to this build, but it has taken some time away from it. I should have taken pictures when working on this, but I was frustrated and just plain forgot. You see, ever since the pandemic and hitting my 40's, my sensation of time passing...

Yep. I'm picturing a hybrid design. Client binned cores at high frequencies, but with that massive 768MB or whatever it is cache the EPYC chips use. There is probably a limiting return on cache size at some point, but I bet 128MB is not it :p

While I understand this in theory, and the X3D cache is huge by cache standards, it is still only 128MB. Certainly that can't fit everything needed by the render pipeline. It would be funny to see how one of those massive caches from an Epyc X series chip would perform in a gaming SKU :p

Ah, I was considering going less. 32 or 48. While I can find DDR5-6000 at CL28 and DDR5-6400 at CL30 in 2x16GB kits, anything larger than that seems to go up to CL30 and CL32 respectively. I have read that CAS latency isn't as big of a deal as it once was, so maybe I shouldn't worry about it.

Another weekend, another limited amount of progress. I spent some time trying to duplicate my brackets for the second radiator. No pics here. There is nothing new to show off, and I have a little bit of trimming left to do before it will work just right, and I ran out of daylight before i...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was making accusations or anything. I don't have enough information to say one way or another. Just that most review sets out there I have seen have the two trading blows, and maybe even having the 9950x ahead by one or two percent on average. Most...