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   famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:30:55 JST famfo

   Gaming on POWER8

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:33:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @famfo I wonder about how loud it is ^^
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     cpresser (cccpresser@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:34:28 JST cpresser

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     @lanodan @famfo yes.

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     famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:35:20 JST famfo

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     @cccpresser @lanodan after running it for an hour it actually gets to a level where you can talk normally again (also see the video below the post) :D

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:50:18 JST nina

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     @lanodan @famfo wanna see my old power8 desktop mod i was dailying in 2019? no? well you'll see it anyway

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:50:19 JST nina

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan @famfo very

     (i had two of them)

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:50:27 JST nina

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     @famfo @lanodan i'm honestly half surprised it worked (the temps were nice too, and the noise was much lower despite no real fan control... and of course so was the power consumption since you no longer need like 250W worth of fans)

     at least on power9 the socket kinda relies on the high pressure heatsink clamping mechanism to work correctly, and this arrangement was using normal thermal paste and everything, so the force/pressure was nowhere near as big

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     famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:50:28 JST famfo

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     @q66 @lanodan oh my god it is beautiful

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:55:03 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 @famfo also NVMe only I guess? (Although isn't it a sata cable coming out of the NVMe PCie adapter?)
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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 09:57:44 JST nina

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     @lanodan @famfo it had sata, iirc the firmware was not capable of booting from nvme, so it needed sata at least for /boot partition (obviously rootfs can be on anything... one of those days i'll post my power mac g5 with 10G networking, nvme root, usb3, and opengl4 gpu)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:00:13 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 @famfo Heh reminds me of the setup I had on my BananaPi where I had u-boot on sd card, /boot on usb dongle (where old system was), / on sata SSD.
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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:00:23 JST nina

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     @lanodan @famfo (and yes it runs 4k60 display)

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:05:29 JST nina

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     @lanodan @famfo let's just say there is a whole lot you can do when you have pcie and your hardware is not arm (it's kind of funny that 2005 era niche-arch hardware has less broken pcie than like 90% of modern day arm machines incl. the big server ones)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:10:34 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 @famfo Yeah for me ARM used to be interesting as it was small and cheap, but it's too much of an annoying platform, even when you get it to work.
     
     Like Allwinner A20 probably still has it's sata bandwidth cut in half…
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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:12:53 JST nina

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     @famfo @lanodan i got the thing from that ebay store, for like 300€

     had to add ram but it was a pretty good deal honestly

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     famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:12:55 JST famfo

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     @q66 @lanodan "PIOSPARTSLAP NICHT ÖFFNEN" god, this is beautiful xDD

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     famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:19:19 JST famfo

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     @q66 @lanodan yup, we got our server from pio too, unfortunately no ram so over all it was a bit more expensive (god IBM RAM is cursed and hard to get)

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     nina (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Oct-2024 10:21:52 JST nina

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     @famfo @lanodan yea that's the great thing about these tyans, they don't need cursed ram because the centaurs are right on the board (four of them, each serving eight ddr3/1333 slots, and each serving as individual 16MB of L4 cache)

     you can get some serious memory bandwidth on these things, like twice what ddr4 quad channel direct attach can do, with some cheap ol' ddr3 sticks

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