AMD's Threadripper, A 16-Core, 32-Thread Desktop Processor

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Originally Posted by propbeanie

That probably was Reece's adventure that I'm thinking of...

I at first had my son's dual-bios set to UEFI, but we kept getting stopped by it for seemingly unrelated things, the one being a USB hard drive... I'll have to go see if he remembers all of that. We went back to legacy also.

I haven't done me an AMD build since the first of the XP line (3200??). Still have it downstairs, just not plugged in. I actually started with a K6 I believe it was, with the old AT compatibility stuff, where you have to actually press the power button to start it up, and wait for the thing to shut down, then press the power button to turn it off ~after~ you got back to the DOS prompt... My first noodlings with Linux were on a Thunderbird 1400, and it ran SH4 better than the Intel Pentium I had in the other box, though the ATI video card may have been the difference...

16 cores, 32 (is that concurrent??) threads... wow. "My, what a modern age we live in." Maynard G. Krebs - man, just lost over 5 minutes of my life on youtube looking for a Maynard video... my head is now spinning.

Your Thunderbird 1400 and my 1.4ghz, would be the same chip...
I used to play games with a friend, LAN party every week at his job, where the boss liked Pentium 3 and 4 processors, same ATI Radeon 8500 video.
My 1.4 would keep up with the 2 ghz P4, and outright stomp the P4 1.4 ghz sytems, and I never overheated as the host!
We were all running Kingston network cards.
(Best network card I've ever had, put it in a machine that was lousy at the game, and it could host WITH NO LAG. I always ended up being the host anywhere else. Plus I usually had the top machine in the group elsewhere. Even when gigabit became "the thing", it still would outperform on hosting even though it was only a 10/100).

First of the "Athlon XP" line was a (I think) 1400XP, was some where around 1.2ghz.
That was the time frame when AMD was labeling their chips based on what Intel chip that my matched the performance of.
I.e. 1400XP=1.4ghz P4, 3200XP=3.2ghz Intel
My 2500XP is actually 1.8ghz...

My K6-2 actually shut itself off... Last one we manually had to shut down was a Pentium 120mhz... I forget when it switched...unless you had an older power supply in it, that would definitely explain that behavior.

[propbeanie]

Yeah, it was a much older power supply... not as old as me, but almost as old as an 8088... I called my T-bird a 1400, because I thought they had already done that "equivalent" stuff. All it ever did was confuse me. Somebody would usually say "my computer is gonna mop the floor with yours!"... Little while later, they'd say "what do you have ~in~ that thing?"... Unfortunately, they dropped the PCI bus with the dual core machines, and I still have a semi-professional PCI sound card that I was doing a lot of work with, especially back then, so I had to go back to intel. Now I've got two teenage boys, I've had to retire, and I can't afford a combo package from eBay... - I'll get me one of them bad-boy 16-core 32-thread thingies one of these days. 'Course, by then, they'll be doing 64 core, 512 concurrent thread thingies... and be using light pipes for data transmission in-the-box...