Intel Xeon W-3175X 28-core Processor Now Available at $2,999

[Vayra86]

I really value your usual unbiased pacifist wisdom.
I've been a PC enthusiast for 24 years. I had the chance to taste all the different flavors and you have to make up your mind after a while. I made up my mind: AMD will be nr.2 underdog forever to me. They had the chance to impress me but failed to do so. I had long and prosperous decades with my usual setup.

To widen the perspective a bit: We're living in a consumerist age and there's just too many manufacturers to pick of. You have to make up your mind, mostly based on experience: I had a whirlpool fridge and dishwasher die on me. Never going to buy Whirlpool again

Absolutely, but for PC its not like there are many players in the game at all. Most choice you have is an illusion, the other half is marketing.

I have a whirlpool dishwasher... damn it. Still working, knockon wood

 

[Deleted member 158293]

Absolutely, but for PC its not like there are many players in the game at all. Most choice you have is an illusion, the other half is marketing.

I have a whirlpool dishwasher... damn it. Still working, knockon wood

Illusion of choice especially applies household appliances... most, save a few Korean imports, are fabricated in the same manufacturing facilities (which have mostly moved to Mexico relatively recently in the last few years) with trims and name plates being the biggest differences.

 

[efikkan]

Then, oh so wise guy, please explain me the following:

Please quit your adolescent behavior and listen, you might actually learn something.

Why on earth even today software is shipped being compiled with such compilers while featuring given flags? … while runnign significant faster even on today's AMD-hardware, if such flags are removed?

That's not true at all. Common software (games, video converters, tools, browsers, photo editors etc.) are not compiled with flags which "hurts" AMD. Firstly, the compiler flags offered in modern compilers like gcc, llvm etc. enables the same optimizations for AMD and Intel. Secondly, most software don't have any of this enabled at all, in fact most out of the box 64-bit software is using plain "AMD64" ISA (x86-64). If you e.g. go download Ubuntu, it will be plain "AMD64".

I'm goddamn serious here, explain it please! It still affecting even today's software running on actual AMD hardware.

You are only plagued by your own delusions, my deepest condolences.

 

[Ruru]

That AIO looks just like a crude DIY solution made of typical AIO and a plate of copper. And it costs 399 usd, you can build a custom loop with the same price.

 

[notb]

It is 2990WX, W means workstation. It is MEANT for Linux and workstation only. Any researcher with a tiny bit of self-respect would not use a consumer version of Windows 10 for workstation level work. Just saying.

That is so not true. Aren't you a bit too old and serious for this kind of Windows rasism?

Then, oh so wise guy, please explain me the following: Why on earth even today software is shipped being compiled with such compilers while featuring given flags?

I'd love a proper discussion about compiling!
Can you please give an example of what you're talking about? ;-)

That AIO looks just like a crude DIY solution. And it costs 399 usd, you can build a custom loop with the same price.

Which brings us the question: why would you want to make a custom loop?
Intel organized a "recommended" AIO so that OEMs wouldn't have to bother. I don't think companies like Dell or Lenovo have ever made a water-cooled system in a desktop tower case. Now they have a guarantee that a sufficient AIO exists.

Illusion of choice especially applies household appliances... most, save a few Korean imports, are fabricated in the same manufacturing facilities (which have mostly moved to Mexico relatively recently in the last few years) with trims and name plates being the biggest differences.

Actually he lives in NL, so it's quite unlikely that all of household appliances he can buy are made in Mexico.
Please, try to remember that there exists some civilization outside North America.

Other that that you have a point. Most of popular appliances are made in the same factories. But:
a) nameplates are not the only difference, because there are still different technologies (IP) and materials involved. So 2 fridges may look almost the same, but their performance and expected lifetime may be vastly different.
b) what we're talking about applies to almost everything manufactured today. Household appliances are by no means special. Think about electronics, car parts, food.

 

[SIGSEGV]

I love moar cores and cheap.

lol, this thread is funny...

 

[Mescalamba]

Looks like De8bauer pulled over 1225 watts over just one 24 pin connector + auxiliary?!

Well... there's an odd little small display for a kinda useless animation, so why not have some real 24k gold bling on there? Or you could just straight up buy about 1.5 oz of gold for the same price.

1225W? 24 pin and 8 pin or? Cause only 24 pin should melt it.. I mean, I saw something like that happen to ehm.. friend of mine.

 

[Deleted member 158293]

1225W? 24 pin and 8 pin or? Cause only 24 pin should melt it.. I mean, I saw something like that happen to ehm.. friend of mine.

From memory I think it was 24+8(+8?) pin.

I would've thought just one 24 pin would've melted also, but either guess not, or bad editing on the video. Don't see the point of the second 24 pin otherwise.

This video is also the first time I've seen De8auer RIP Asus publicly on something in no uncertain terms...

 

[jmgbjr]

Holding off buying until Intel releases it's BIg-ger 6000+ pin socket CPU that has 2 3175x dies glued!! together for 48-cores (only 24 cores per die) with no Hyperthreading. Now that's a big CPU