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Consumer grade CPUs aren't meant to be pushed with heavy load 24/7, meaning, durability becomes another variable which, in my experience, will quickly outweigh
by chicagojoe 1y ago
Consumer grade CPUs aren't meant to be pushed with heavy load 24/7, meaning, durability becomes another variable which, in my experience, will quickly outweigh the brief burst of speed.
- wmf 1y agoIf your software can handle machine failures, 20% extra performance is absolutely worth some extra failures.
- bob1029 1y agoI think this is the best path if your problem can support it. I use a 5950X for running genetic programming and neuroevolution experiments and about once every 100 hours the machine will just not like the state/load it is experiencing and will restart. My approach is to checkpoint as often as possible. I restart the program the next morning and it deserializes the last snapshot from disk. Worst case, I lose 5 minutes of work. This also helps with Windows updates, power outages, and EM/cosmic radiation.
- toast0 1y agoAMD uses the same chiplets for Epyc and Ryzen. The packaging is different, and the I/O dies are different, but whatever. If you really care, you can buy an Epyc branded AM4 or AM5 cpu which has remarkably similar specifications and MSRP to Ryzen offerings.