64 Core EPYC CPU – HOLY $H!T

[Tomieszek]

I know that was probably said in the past but...

 

What is that thing that Linus laid on CPU instead of thermal paste?

[TomvanWijnen]

17 minutes ago, Tomieszek said:

I know that was probably said in the past but...

 

What is that thing that Linus laid on CPU instead of thermal paste?

I recognised it from an older video... then googled "solid thermal paste pad" and this was the first video to pop up: 

It's probably this or something similar.  

[Tomieszek]

9 hours ago, TomvanWijnen said:

I recognised it from an older video... then googled "solid thermal paste pad" and this was the first video to pop up: 

It's probably this or something similar.  

Thank you!

[Emily Young]

On 9/29/2019 at 8:15 AM, hojnikb said:

Any binaries or instructions on how to get swiftshader working?

There were some old builds floating around from the Transgaming days, but I had to compile it myself. It was RIDICULOUSLY annoying to do so as it required Visual Studio and a bunch of other stuff and Windows isn't exactly an ideal build environment. Here's what I ended up with. You typically only need to copy the d3d9.dll into the same folder as the game's executable, and it only works with DX9 (or OpenGL with the libGL DLLs).

[hojnikb]

On 9/30/2019 at 10:40 PM, GabenJr said:

There were some old builds floating around from the Transgaming days, but I had to compile it myself. It was RIDICULOUSLY annoying to do so as it required Visual Studio and a bunch of other stuff and Windows isn't exactly an ideal build environment. Here's what I ended up with. You typically only need to copy the d3d9.dll into the same folder as the game's executable, and it only works with DX9 (or OpenGL with the libGL DLLs).

Great! Thank, i'll give this a shot. I'm interested how this will perform on older titles, that might support DX9 or openGL

[protomat]

I so wanna build a gaming pc with this chip 

[Results45]

On 10/2/2019 at 4:48 PM, protomat said:

I so wanna build a gaming pc with this chip 

 

You can (as did Linus & Anthony), but with the cost of one EPYC 7742 chip alone at ~$7300 you can build an entire Threadripper 2990WX system with similar relative performance -- or even 5-20% better with overclocking.

 

• [OpenSSL v1.1 benchmark ~ compare by dividing the score of a single 7742 by two] EPYC 7742 vs. Threadripper 2990WX
• [EPYC 7742] @ $7291.76
• Average cost of a complete 7742 system: $25,000
• [Threadripper 2990WX] @ $1700
• Cost of a decked-out 2990WX system: $5845.68+

 

Though if money costs nothing to you, go get yourself them 128 cores and run ANY game at 45fps* without a graphics card! 

 

 

*given future SwiftShader+VulkaAPI support for rasterized CPU rendering with more than 8 cores/16 threads.

[ipwnscrubsdoe]

Any followup on this? Any gaming benchmark to compare to ryzen 3000? I'm considering a 32 core epyc as a work and play computer and i would like to know if the cache can make up for the lower clocks. Anyone else crazy enough to try this?

[GoldenLag]

16 minutes ago, ipwnscrubsdoe said:

Any followup on this? Any gaming benchmark to compare to ryzen 3000? I'm considering a 32 core epyc as a work and play computer and i would like to know if the cache can make up for the lower clocks. Anyone else crazy enough to try this?

they will try thid, 

 

but unless you need the IO of 128 lanes. you will be better off waiting for threadripper 3