12 Gamers 1 CPU?????

[PotatoNapper]

Can we propose a video so Linus can upload a video using the high-end thread ripper to have 12 or even 16 gamers on 1 threadripper

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16 would be a bit of a stretch since that would basically be giving each game 1 core "2 threads" which is half an i3 - something many will agree is already insufficient.

[zzzzzzzhhh]

More gamers = More cores

 

Linus maxed out on a number of cores he could have last episode.

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Perhaps with an EPYC he could redo 8 gamers but actually on 1 CPU this time though, since they would each get an "i7"  

[DXMember]

I've heard there will be X gamers 1 or 2 EPYCs

[pyrojoe34]

EPYC dual socket + 256GB RAM + 16GPUs -> 16 gamers, 1 PC (4c/8t, 16GB RAM, and 1 GPU w/ 8xPCIe lanes per gamer) -> profit??

 

Now who's got $15k lying around to make it happen?

[GDRRiley]

Just now, pyrojoe34 said:

EPYC dual socket + 256GB RAM + 16GPUs -> 16 gamers, 1 PC (4c/8t, 16GB RAM, and 1 GPU per gamer) -> profit??

 

Now who's got $15k lying around to make it happen?

suppermicro for the board, amd for the cpus, ram will be from kingston, gpu from someone.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Let's see ... if @LinusTech used something like the SuperMicro SuperServer 7089P-TR4T for this project ....

 

It can take EIGHT LGA 3647 CPUs, so he could put 8 Xeon Platinum 8180s in it.

If I'm reading correctly, it has room for up to 39 (!!) PCI-E slots!  If that's true, he could put like 39 Radeon Pro Duos in it.  (That's assuming that on dual GPU cards you can split the GPUs and assign them to separate VMs.)  Also the motherboard has integrated graphics, so he wouldn't need to "sacrifice" a GPU to UnRAID.

 

78 Gamers 1 PC, anyone??

 

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I also had an idea for another project / video.

 

Build a multi-users, 1 PC system (doesn't have to be as elaborate as I described, and in fact I'd suggest quite a bit less), and test its performance in most types of tasks, like office work, content creation, web browsing (for example as if it was a library computer), gaming (like for an internet cafe), and whatever else you can think of.  (Preferably don't give extra weight to any one category, like gaming, for example.)  Also test the power consumption, of course.

 

Then, build a number of individual systems (or obtain laptops / portable devices) with the same performance specs.  They should be within margin of error in Cinebench, FireStrike, CrystalDiskMark, etc.  For example if 1 VM gets 1000 in CB and 12K in FS, 1 dedicated device should get essentially the same score.  Run the same tests on those individual systems/devices.

 

Then, compare the price to performance, performance per watt, performance per liter, performance per dB, performance per °C, and any other combinations you can think of, between the 2 setups.

 

Which would be likely better overall value for the money - 1 big system that supports multiple concurrent users, or several small 1-user systems?

[PotatoNapper]

54 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

suppermicro for the board, amd for the cpus, ram will be from kingston, gpu from someone.

GPU from AMD of course they want more exposure