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From: "Taiidan@×××.com" <Taiidan@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New box
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:39:23
Message-Id: 96091a90-31c7-f209-8188-aeffb5894c34@gmx.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] New box by Alan McKinnon
1 On 12/30/2016 07:54 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On 30/12/2016 14:12, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 00:24:36 -0600, Dale wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside,
7 >>> gkrellm won't have enough screen to show each core separately. That's a
8 >>> problem there. lol It already takes up the whole right side on one
9 >>> desktop. I guess I could make the thing shorter to fit them all in.
10 >> What's the problem, now you have all the justification you need for
11 >> buying a bigger monitor ;-)
12 >>
13 >>
14 > I have 8 cores with krells for each, plus for procs, 2 disks and 3
15 > interfaces. And plenty vertical space to spare.
16 >
17 > 1920x1080 monitor of course :-)
18 >
19 I have 16 cores.
20
21 You can get a g34 16 core 62xx or 63xx opteron for only $10-40, buy two
22 and combine that with a compatible coreboot motherboard and compile
23 times will at last be bearable.
24 Note: the 63xx series needs microcode updates for virtualization, but
25 62xx works with no microcode at all.