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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/ Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds revealed that he upgraded to an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X processor powered machine after 15 years of upgrading among Intel processors. This is likely his main machine from which he does pioneering work on the future of Linux and his other creations. His May 24 dated "State of the Kernel" blog post reveals that his hardware upgrade was the most exciting piece of news to share among the community. "In fact, the biggest excitement this week for me was just that I, upgraded my main machine, and for the first time in about 15 years, my desktop isn't Intel-based. No, I didn't switch to ARM yet, but I'm now rocking an AMD Threadripper 3970x. My 'allmodconfig' test builds are now three times faster than they used to be, which doesn't matter so much right now during the calming down period, but I will most definitely notice the upgrade during the next merge window," he stated. What makes this story big is the fact that the "Zen 2" microarchitecture, and a processor with a similar multi-core architecture to AMD's EPYC enterprise processors, is now being used by the creator of the most popular enterprise operating system. I think this speaks of high praise when Torvalds switches processors.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 08:27:28
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Everyone will switch eventually. Great news😸
Increase 3x the performance? 😳😮
Go AMD go ye😼.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 10:51:05
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I'm glad to see the AMD competition, it is good for the consumer as well.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 12:35:10
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interesting timing of the switch to AMD ... next CPUs are due to drop soon
three times faster than a what ? they never listed the previous PC specs ?
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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Kind of annoyed if the next chips are vastly faster than what I bought recently.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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Kind of annoyed if the next chips are vastly faster than what I bought recently.
It's how tech works. They're like used cars. Stupid hidden things in warranty fine print. They're worth half what you bought it for right when you drive it off the lot and there is always a new one next year with some feature you wanted now but marketing screwed up and confused you into buying the current one instead of waiting instead. My particular example of this nonsense is try to find a 43" UHD 4kTV that has FreeSync, bluetooth capable sound, HDR, low latency and decent build quality for my desktop. It doesn't exist but marketing will make you think it does.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 14:10:56
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Kind of annoyed if the next chips are vastly faster than what I bought recently.
When Ryzen 4k drops be prepared to be annoyed :-)
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 16:38:05
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I am personally not AMD over Intel because I want both brands to be better since if Intel doesn't push AMD why would AMD keep improving?
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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random_matt
Kind of annoyed if the next chips are vastly faster than what I bought recently.
It's how tech works. They're like used cars. Stupid hidden things in warranty fine print. They're worth half what you bought it for right when you drive it off the lot and there is always a new one next year with some feature you wanted now but marketing screwed up and confused you into buying the current one instead of waiting instead.
My particular example of this nonsense is try to find a 43" UHD 4kTV that has FreeSync, bluetooth capable sound, HDR, low latency and decent build quality for my desktop. It doesn't exist but marketing will make you think it does.
Hmm yes i see where you coming from🤔 Pick your poison😹😹😼 https://www.eurogamer.net...vs-for-hdr-gaming-7009https://www.samsung.com/u...tvs/qled-tv/gaming-tv/
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 17:27:49
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random_matt
Kind of annoyed if the next chips are vastly faster than what I bought recently.
*keeps checking calendar for 4000 series reveal date*
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 19:11:46
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https://www.eurogamer.net...vs-for-hdr-gaming-7009
https://www.samsung.com/u...tvs/qled-tv/gaming-tv/
 A picture of my desk as reference. I really do need at 43”, not larger. Here is the gotcha though, you really have to dig. Samsung doesn't make a 4KTV in 43" with FreeSync in any series of their 2020 model TVs. Sure the QLED ones have it, but only in their 55" and larger ones. The devil is in the details. I seriously can't find a one in 43" that has all the specs I want. My desk is a 48" wide desk, a 55" would overwhelm that desk. I currently have a 43" VIZIO on it that is flaking out that needs replaced. /offrailspost 
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/26 19:26:48
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https://www.eurogamer.net...vs-for-hdr-gaming-7009
https://www.samsung.com/u...tvs/qled-tv/gaming-tv/
Here is the gotcha though, you really have to dig. Samsung doesn't make a 4KTV in 43" with FreeSync in any series of their 2020 model TVs. Sure the QLED ones have it, but only in their 55" and larger ones. The devil is in the details. I seriously can't find a one in 43" that has all the specs I want. My desk is a 48" wide desk, a 55" would overwhelm that desk. I currently have a 43" VIZIO on it that is flaking out that needs replaced.
Vizio is a great.choice for the budget customer. I wont be surprised to see in the fall the release of the TV you are looking for Brad.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/27 15:42:07
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EVGA.... it’s time...
(motherboards)
I used to mine. Now I compute.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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EVGA.... it’s time...
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🤔 yeah id been saying that all along. Welcome to the club😁👍
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/27 19:32:31
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EVGA.... it’s time...
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🤔 yeah id been saying that all along.
Welcome to the club😁👍
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/27 19:36:22
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The 2020 Apocalypse...COVID19, murder hornets and EVGA AMD X570 Mobos? Hrrrm, I'm all for it, weirder things have happened.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/27 22:58:16
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2006 was the Core 2 Duo launch, so 15 years on Intel is pretty typical for a lot of people. I haven't used AMD since the Thunderbird era, so it's been over 20 years on Intel. That is going to end with Zen 4 next year.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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The 2020 Apocalypse...COVID19, murder hornets and EVGA AMD X570 Mobos?
Hrrrm, I'm all for it, weirder things have happened.
2020 is the year of a clear honest vision about who and what is around you😳 Specially an EVGA AMD classy Mobo👀 Yes😸
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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EVGA AMD looks so right ........  
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/31 10:01:42
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EVGA AMD looks so right ........
Imagine an evga SR series board for two 64 core epyc chips. Something like an e762 with loads of full x16 slots AND a mess of m.2 nvme slots around the board. Sigh, a man can dream. I kinda want one just to toss a mess of the 4x m.2 add on cards in and use a bunch of smaller cheap stupid fast nvme drives in raid at pcie 4 speeds.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
2020/05/31 17:41:53
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I kinda want one just to toss a mess of the 4x m.2 add on cards in and use a bunch of smaller cheap stupid fast nvme drives in raid at pcie 4 speeds.
I do that already. I have 2 of the ASUS x16 4 M2.NVME cards in my machine.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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EVGA AMD looks so right ........
Imagine an evga SR series board for two 64 core epyc chips.
Never gonna happen unless EVGA makes huge changes. Shamino left long ago. And now TiN is gone. EVGA has no more innovators on its payroll. When the big ones you know about get pushed out, you have to believe that it is EVGA's wish to chase mainstream mediocrity.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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They still have Kingpin part of the team.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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They still have Kingpin part of the team.
Yep, that is why I said it should be interesting.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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They still have Kingpin part of the team.
Kingpin isn't an engineer. "Shamino" and "TiN" were engineers. What is Kingpin going to benchmark when the talented designers are gone?
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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They still have Kingpin part of the team.
Kingpin isn't an engineer. "Shamino" and "TiN" were engineers. What is Kingpin going to benchmark when the talented designers are gone?
Exactly, that is why he said the next kingpin card should be interesting.... we have no idea who will design it.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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I kinda want one just to toss a mess of the 4x m.2 add on cards in and use a bunch of smaller cheap stupid fast nvme drives in raid at pcie 4 speeds.
I do that already. I have 2 of the ASUS x16 4 M2.NVME cards in my machine.
Now imagine instead of two you have 6x or maybe 7x fully populated at pcie gen 4 speeds.
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Re: Linus Torvalds Upgrades to AMD Threadripper After 15 Years with Intel
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They still have Kingpin part of the team.
Kingpin isn't an engineer. "Shamino" and "TiN" were engineers. What is Kingpin going to benchmark when the talented designers are gone?
Exactly, that is why he said the next kingpin card should be interesting.... we have no idea who will design it.
No, he didn't say that. He is not Sajin. Sajin said that.
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