Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now falling?
To   : Accession
From : tenser
Date : Mon May 26 2025 00:02:24

On 22 May 2025 at 06:17p, Accession pondered and said...
 
 Ac> Well, that's good to know. I had just recently got a Google pop-up on my
 Ac> phone that mentioned AMD's latest CPUs were suffering from some of the
 Ac> same woes as Intel, so I mentioned it here since the Intel side of it
 Ac> was already brought up. Either way, not a great time to be in the
 Ac> market, and I'm glad I'm currently not. ;)

Hmm. Yeah, I don't think so, but it could be something
on the desktop side that I'm not aware of.  I don't pay
much attention to that, honestly: my desktop has ARM
cores.  :-)

 Ac>  > Homelabs aren't really something I'm super up on, but that sounds
 Ac>  > like Sandy Bridge; basically anything is going to be ok.
 Ac> 
 Ac> Now you see where my price point was. ~$500 for the whole setup, which
 Ac> included 32gb RAM, and me buying 4 2TB 10k HDDs.
 Ac> 
 Ac>  > On the AMD side, you can probably get a Milan-based server, or even
 Ac>  > something based on Genoa, pretty reasonably.  Personally, I'd go for
 Ac>  > that.  You can probably get 16 cores/32 threads for under $2k, but
 Ac>  > I'm speculating.  (Our machines are rack-scale, and go for about a
 Ac>  > million dollars a pop; but you get 32 compute sleds with 128 HW threads
 Ac>  > and 1TiB of RAM each, plus about 48 TiB of disk and 100 Gbps to a
 Ac>  > custom switch).
 Ac> 
 Ac> Even 8 cores/16 threads would probably be fine. I'm definitely not
 Ac> looking to spend upwards of $2k on BBSing and at home tinkering. At the
 Ac> moment I'm running 3 VMs, with 2 cores and 4gb RAM dedicated for each. I
 Ac> have plenty of RAM and HDD space left over currently. I was just
 Ac> wondering if there was any AMD CPUs that were preferred over others for
 Ac> this kind of task, I guess.

I see.  At that price point, you're probably not going to
new kit with the latest and greatest.  I'd say, if what you've
got is working for you and fast enough for your needs, just
stick with it.  The CPU and memory demands of e.g. a BBS are
so low, no need to go with high-end gear for it.  Speaking of,
I've got to set up my DNS server at home with the stuff I
bought for it, which is just a low-end RISC-V board running
OpenBSD.

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