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It’s still a Yes.
LGA 3647 was for Skylake and Cascade Lake, and the Xeon Gold 6254 was part of the latter generation. Make no mistake, 18 cores is nothing to shake a stick at, but who’d turn down more? Cascade Lake went up to 56 cores per socket, but those are 400W parts, which is a bit spicy…
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Bitten Again
Every now and then I get an idea. It’s typically not an original idea, in that commercial products to do what I’m trying to do already exist, but it’s an idea nonetheless. I like to think that knowing how those commercial products are built may come in handy for one reason or another. The physical…
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Yes.
Some time ago I asked if a server could be my workstation and, shortly after that, I answered “no.” My opinion has recently changed. My previous experiment involved an Ivy Bridge EP part with DDR3 memory. Numerous computers have spoiled me over the years when it comes to performance, even the low-power laptop parts, but…
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Whole Again?
There’s a question mark at the end of the title because it’s still early days, but the family is whole again. In early 2017 I stumbled upon a Shiba rescue website while I was looking for a friend for Daisy. I figured she’d want another Shiba friend, having lost Lilo in December. The site was…
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Red to Green
I’ve been an AMD GPU user for a decent amount of time. Back in the day I used an ATI All-In-Wonder card in my Windows XP MCE PC, and kept with that pattern until it stopped being supported. There were some GeForce cards in there, but I was on Team Red for the most part.…
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And Then There Was One
This post is uncharacteristically long and heavy. It took three days to write. Buckle up. I can’t say I wasn’t allowed to have a pet as a child. I had several species of freshwater fish. Nothing exotic or over-the-top, just your typical goldfish, neon tetras, and assorted gouramis over the span of many years. There…
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Disconnect
By now you know that I enjoy tech. One with a knack for self-promotion may say I’m “passionate” about it, but I think it’s more in-character for me to say I like it a lot. Technology is a thread that is woven through every aspect of my day whether my eyes are open or shut.…
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No.
To answer the question posed by my last post: no. A server cannot be my main workstation. Or, at least, that server can’t be my main workstation. The one I’m still using — 3900X with 64GB of DDR4-3200 — is running perfectly, but most importantly, it’s running fast. From a first-hand usage perspective, the Ryzen wrecks the…
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Can a server be my main machine?
We usually think of servers as powerful, expensive machines sitting in data centers, and that’s usually accurate enough. Small to medium businesses have tower servers available as an option. Back in the day Intel used to make kits including chassis, mainboards, CPUs, memory, and cooling for DIY servers; SuperMicro has something similar now. I’ve been…