I Picked a threadripper for a box that needed a lot of IO and figured that with that many PCI lanes I couldn't go wrong. But I have to admit I've been more than pleasantly surprised by the performance of the CPU as well, it - easily - outperforms all of the XEON and I7 based boxes that I have. The only thing I wished I would have done different is to max it out with 256G DIMMs when they weren't the price of a car.
In the computer world, wait a few years and things get cheaper. That was broken by an exceptional event. Who would have thought you can't afford DDR4 in 2026?
I'm aiming for my machines to be too heavy and hard to open ;)
I put 256G in it wondering if I would ever need that much RAM and now it looks way too small. Highly frustrating. I wonder if the companies that made these deals realize that they've just given an entire industry a reason to look for alternatives. It's not like they wouldn't have sold their product otherwise.
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They (in theory) could padlock them so the drives and ram couldn't be stolen?
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I put 256G in it wondering if I would ever need that much RAM and now it looks way too small. Highly frustrating. I wonder if the companies that made these deals realize that they've just given an entire industry a reason to look for alternatives. It's not like they wouldn't have sold their product otherwise.