By: Groo (charlie.delete@this.semiaccurate.com), August 13, 2018 4:50 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Linus Torvalds (torvalds.delete@this.linux-foundation.org) on August 13, 2018 3:48 pm wrote:
> During the merge window (like now), I spend a fair amount of time double-checking
> my merges by doing builds before pushing out, and my old i7-6700K is showing
> its age, with the kernel having grown, and meltdown slowing things down.
>
> My main worry is noise. I'm not sure I want to deal with the blower required for a 180W+ CPU.
>
There are 3-4 water coolers on the market that are almost silent. Most are readily available, some are not common in certain geographies but you should have a choice. I saw one on the shelf at MicroCenter today when I was grabbing a printer. The two I have are virtually silent and the CPU comes with a bracket for the water blocks in the box.
All that said if I were you I would get an Epyc instead, it has 8 channel memory as opposed to the four in Threadripper. Compiles may not use it but I am sure you will have workloads that can.
-Charlie
> During the merge window (like now), I spend a fair amount of time double-checking
> my merges by doing builds before pushing out, and my old i7-6700K is showing
> its age, with the kernel having grown, and meltdown slowing things down.
>
> My main worry is noise. I'm not sure I want to deal with the blower required for a 180W+ CPU.
>
There are 3-4 water coolers on the market that are almost silent. Most are readily available, some are not common in certain geographies but you should have a choice. I saw one on the shelf at MicroCenter today when I was grabbing a printer. The two I have are virtually silent and the CPU comes with a bracket for the water blocks in the box.
All that said if I were you I would get an Epyc instead, it has 8 channel memory as opposed to the four in Threadripper. Compiles may not use it but I am sure you will have workloads that can.
-Charlie
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Threadripper 32 core review | Per Hesselgren | 2018/08/13 08:50 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | wumpus | 2018/08/13 09:32 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Linus Torvalds | 2018/08/13 02:12 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | pgerassi | 2018/08/13 03:16 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Linus Torvalds | 2018/08/13 03:48 PM |
| Less Power Hungry Part? | Passing Through | 2018/08/13 04:19 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Groo | 2018/08/13 04:50 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Passing Through | 2018/08/14 12:45 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | pgerassi | 2018/08/13 06:41 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | juanrga | 2018/08/14 04:44 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Linus Torvalds | 2018/08/14 09:37 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | juanrga | 2018/08/14 11:18 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | juanrga | 2018/08/16 02:16 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Jukka Larja | 2018/08/14 08:41 AM |
| [side topic] personal supercomputer (Threadripper 32 core review) | hobold | 2018/08/16 04:47 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Alberto | 2018/08/13 11:11 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Maynard Handley | 2018/08/13 01:27 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Doug S | 2018/08/13 02:01 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Alberto | 2018/08/14 02:50 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | none | 2018/08/14 05:08 AM |
| On revenues and right choices | AM | 2018/08/14 08:33 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Alberto | 2018/08/14 12:57 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Jeff S. | 2018/08/14 07:00 AM |
| Shrinks and power density | AM | 2018/08/14 08:49 AM |
| Shrinks and power density | David Hess | 2018/08/18 01:30 PM |
| Shrinks and power density | AM | 2018/08/19 08:12 AM |
| Shrinks and power density | anonymou5 | 2018/08/19 09:13 PM |
| Shrinks and power density | John H | 2018/08/20 05:16 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | David Hess | 2018/08/18 01:43 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | anon | 2018/08/13 02:48 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | anon | 2018/08/13 03:25 PM |
| *while (NT) | anon | 2018/08/13 03:26 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | pgerassi | 2018/08/13 07:34 PM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | anon | 2018/08/14 05:40 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | Gabriele Svelto | 2018/08/14 04:22 AM |
| Threadripper 32 core review | anon | 2018/08/14 05:44 AM |
| Flock of Chickens. | Jouni Osmala | 2018/08/13 08:04 PM |
| Flock of Chickens. | none | 2018/08/14 01:43 AM |
| AnandTech review clarity | Jeff S. | 2018/08/14 05:06 AM |
| AnandTech review clarity | none | 2018/08/14 05:15 AM |
| AnandTech review clarity | Jeff S. | 2018/08/14 05:36 AM |
| AnandTech review clarity | none | 2018/08/14 05:44 AM |
| AnandTech review clarity | none | 2018/08/14 05:53 AM |
