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I really should run some good benchmarks on it. But in an all-core workload I feel like it would hang with a 975. My ATi GPU collection has gotten pretty epic; the flagship of basically every gen. Rage Fury Maxx Radeon DDR 64MB Radeon 8500...

In 2020, there was new computer arguably less performant or around the same being sold, say Intel Celeton N3450 system, the intel celeron N4020 was a 2020 release, they were maybe using 15 time less watt too, sold with way more less ram. Would...

The Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB on the shelf has not gone unnoticed... :p

In the spring of '20, while I was on furlough during the COVID lock down, I decided to put together a '2000s Dream System'. I'd been wanting to do a dual socket AMD build for a while, originally around Athlon MPs, but couldn't find a motherboard...

One of the main reasons my old stuff still keeps me amused. :) Plus it's all documented somewhere depending on how old it is, so you just search and implement. :)

I'm having a lot of fun with the dually testbench. I decided to mess around with BIOS modding to see if I could get NVMe boots to work. It was a little tricky for someone who has never edited a BIOS file before, but in the grand scheme of...

Windows made it very difficult nigh impossible to share a printer connected to a Win10 box, so I bought a very cheap Netgear WGPS606 54Mbps print server. It won't connect to my modern wifi network, although it can *see* the wifi, and additionally...

Xeon Haswell can be turbo-boosted on all cores with BIOS hack, though the clock will be reduced when hitting the TDP limit. I had all threads at 2.9GHz easily on 4699v3 (18C/36T) when running non-avx BOINC workload. The 2696v3 is a beast if you...

Ahh, I was going g of the link I post with the turbo/core speeds and thought you were going off that.

Nothing to do with calculators. The page here is simply wrong, and that is what I was reviewing when I was researching these chips: Now that I know better, I'd edit it to fix it, but Wikipedia will never let me edit anything due to my VPN...

Might want to look at it again and break out the calculator ;)

The 2696v2 peaks to 3.5 as well though...that's the kicker.

Interesting. That's not what the Wikipedia page on Ivy Bridge Xeons says. Good to know.

Side note, This machine came in very handy this week. I'm in the progress of upgrading my pfSense router, and it turned out to be more complicated than I had expected. Not wanting to be without internet during the process, I imaged the...

Interesting. If all core performance is the priority, those are the ones to get. but 3.1Ghz vs 3.0Ghz is only going to be a 3.33% improvement at all core loads. I think the higher 3.5Ghz peak for low threaded bursty loads is better in my...

These thing can run forever even in that state. :) I've got several HPs with swollen caps and they still keep working. :)

It was a Bitspower rotary that leaked.

I feel much the same with their CPU division. While I don't think anyone needs more than 16 cores... there was a time when nobody needed more than 4. then suddenly, AMD whipped Intel's ass into gear and 8-cores became the norm, and anyone with 4...

Thank you for the correction. I don't think they went to shit immediately at the point of the merger, but rather it marked the peak, and everything from then onward was downhill, each release closer to the minimum-viable-product and "use games...