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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    For a lab vm box in a chip shortage I was saying you don't have have current gear or spend a fortune to get a VM box with a lot of ram and cores..assuming the need for 16 cores is for.multiple VMs and not a single database. And where there is a lot of multithreading like a VM environment...the...
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    Jedi was asking about a home lab environment using a gen 1 - 16 core ryzen..a T610 or T7500 with dual X5690s would be quite comparable in a lot of virtualzation needs. 80 lanes, 24mb L3 cache, 12c/24t @ 3.6ghz...and a price tag to match the gen 1 ryzen and mobo for $800. Now if you need pcie gen...
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    Intel Optane 800P 58GB and 118GB M.2 SSD Modules Released

    If 800p became p1600x, then p4801x should be x9602pp? ;)
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    Why not a dell R820 quad socket? I like the qpi xeons offer and with the newer scalable upi you can just 2x or 4x any system pretty reasonably even a few gens back are awesome for virtualization and the dells are dirt cheap as everyone runs them. Something like this: Usd$1100 ish Pcie gen 3...
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    OK so that makes a lot of sense. I went digging for odd things like aes-ni support but couldn't find any difference between the 7 an 9 in this case other than the +MHZ off set they looked like the same cpu. But the TIM vs Solder and thermal headroom on the 7 series to me makes it actually more...
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    Wow looked them up. I'd take the 7940x over the 9940x (because of price delta and OC), unless I'm missing something here. They are both skylake, 44 lane gen 3, basically the turbo modes are only +200mhz different...but the tjunction on the 7940 is 102c vs 88c on the 9940...I know tjunction is...
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    Oh good to know...it's a skylake 14c though right? I just moved over from xeons and the i7-8086k & i9-9900ks side so this will be my first hedt build.
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    Intel Optane 800P 58GB and 118GB M.2 SSD Modules Released

    I'm building a system (chips should be in next week) with 2x 380gb optane m.2 with water blocks as direct cpu cache raid 0 using vroc so that I can cache everything prior to writing to other mediums at 128gb/s. The OS and apps will reside on a hyper v2 x16 card with 4x raid 0 m.2 16gb...
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    Anyone getting back in lately?

    Yep been in an out since 2010 but wys mining something. Probably about 3,500MH/s ETH right now and 1,100TH/s BTC. I hit the brakes hard after surviving crypto winter 2018-2019. If those z9minis hadn't been able to 50% stable OC I never would have survived. Currently working to build an 80 card...
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    i9-7980XE $426USD

    That's not a bad deal at all...the i9-7900X are just the tray version of the commercial i9-9900xe series right? I may just pick up a i9-7940X for the fun of it...after all it's the "less binned" version of the unicorn i9-9990XE... oh and was there an i9-7990xe? That'd probably be even rarer...