Talos II - POWER9 motherboard

Raptor Computing Systems are now taking preorders for the Talos II
raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9
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>first system to support PCIe 4.0
Neat

If I was rich I'd buy one just to shitpost in guts threads

that's hot.

>2.3K
bit expensive for me

Whole system with mobo/cpy/ram, or is that just for mobo?

just CPU+heatsink and mobo

A complete workstation setup should be ~5300 USD

Well, there you have it Sup Forums, finally a botnet free system. You will buy one, right? Right?

How powerful are those power9 CPUs?

I might buy one when I make a few more shekels on crypto trading.

Same.
I'm gonna sell some of my retro rigs to fund this.

This is my question. How fast can it compile muh gentoo? If it's a decent improvement over my FX-8150 then I might actually order one.

I really want one but its too expensive for me.

I think they are as good or better than xeons.

when gaming benchmarks?

Its not really for gaming. I don't think windows will run on these CPUs.

Did you miss the part about it being POWER9?

So at least 240fps in Oregon Trail 2, then?

Just one?

is it an atx motherboard?

I think its either ATX or EATX.

EATX. It should fit into a standard case if its big enough

What is power9

A server CPU architecture made by IBM that runs all free as in freedom firmware.

now it just needs an open gpu and sas controller.

Couldn't you buy a 660 ti and and use nouveau?

yes but the gpu would still run proprietary firmware and seems that a storage controller is required(didnt see anything about sata ports on their site) and those are usually expensive and run proprietary firmware too.

What are the CPU specs?

Depends on who built it. OpenPOWER is an open architecture, and has many variants (sort of like RISC-V except you can buy POWER CPUs).

As for POWER9 in particular, (((wikipedia))) could help you find out. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9

Pair it with QEMU x86 emu and it is:
ULTIMATE
COMFY

Wow, they decided to add a proprietary piece of DRM hardware on their machine. Why? Who the fuck doesn't torrent their movies these days?

>24 core SMT8 4GHz
Do want.

AMDGPU along with a bonaire GPU would seem to be your best bet, if someone could help you write open source F32 firmware code.

F32 dissassembler
github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/tree/master/f32

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That's not part of the motherboard or anything, it's just something that's part of the ready-built workstation, I guess Bluray discs are used in some cases where you need large amounts of data.
>Who the fuck doesn't torrent their movies these days?
And where do you think those pirated movies come from?

Are the CPUs 4 core or 24 core? The talos site says 4 but that makes no sense.

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>upto 8-way SMT

Nazi science at its finest.

Nazi ? It's still master juden tech, power9 was requested by "someone" and IBM delivered.

Looks like it's 4 cores with 4 threads per core. Performance is probably closer to 16 core CPUs though.

what does this run? shitty ass yellow dog linux?

...

I bet you it's quad core performance is fucking insane. I want one to benchmark all day.
Can you overclock it??

>not buying the mobo/cpu/heatsink bundle only
The rest is totally overpriced for what it is.

It's IBM, they usually clock all their chips as fast as they can possibly go, they don't really do X86 style pay more for mhz.

Site seems down.. what did you do?

is the motherboard standard ATX form factor? imagine putting this in one of those IBM 771 xeon cases, so cool.

>is the motherboard standard ATX form factor
Yes, it's a standard ATX motherboard.

$2400 is fucking cheap for something like this.

I will buy one probably by the end of the year. Say no to the botnet.

can it run normal linux distros like debian or does it need something custom built?

no. its eatx and it wont fit in a atx case because its bigger.

It's still a standard form factor though.

the case i have is EATX, some old IBM server thing but not old enough that i would feel bad cannibalizing it

I hope this leads somewhere so that my new PC can be my last x86-based computer.

Damn imagine running hardened gentoo on this. A freetard's wet dream

Most early 00s UNIX workstations had DVD drives too while they were incapable of playing back DVDs due to the lack of software. The reason? Data storage, later versions of HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, and the like came on DVDs.

>Why?
Most likely because there are no freetard oprical disc drives

Debian is available for POWER. Gentoo too, obviously.

nice. maybe i will get this instead of an amd cpu when i upgrade from i5 2500k

its

And none of you Windows Faggots will be able to use it.

There's ubuntu ppc64le too.
Reminder that you should run little endian, big endian linux is a mess.

You mean that C, the _portable assembler_, makes it impossible to abstract over a menial detail like endianess!?

POWER9 can kick the arse of a Xeon 4 times per core.

power8 has/had weaker ipc than xeons but they're not that far behind, the kicker is that power8 can do 2/4/8 threads per core whereas xeons are only 2 threads per core meaning that 10 core power8 machines aren't *that* far behind 18 core xeons in multicore stuff that does require excellent single core (like compression) but the power8 will excel where single core isn't hugely important (like decompression)

the single thread performance vs multicore performance discussion isn't as relevant as it is on desktop pcs, on workstation/servers you'll typically find dual cpus with >8 cores on each cpu, if you're fretting over a bit of single thread performance you're either doing something incredibly wrong or you're doing something that needs that *needs* that higher ipc in which case getting those >$2k xeons isn't even a choice

I wish there were more POWER CPUs still being used in consumer products. Software like mpv, Firefox, etc. all probably have inline x86_64 asm inline for performance critical sections so they'll probably end up being more sluggish on POWER architectures. Also GCC and Clang probalby produce better performing binaries for x86_64 than they do for POWER and that won't change until more developers are on POWER

what's the chance this thing can run rpcs3 at full speed? They're the same architecture right?