Talos II - POWER9 motherboard

>>61800264
>first system to support PCIe 4.0
Neat

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

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that's hot.

>>61800264
>2.3K
bit expensive for me

>>61801442
Whole system with mobo/cpy/ram, or is that just for mobo?

>>61801639
just CPU+heatsink and mobo

>>61801639
A complete workstation setup should be ~5300 USD

Well, there you have it /g/, 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.

>>61801301

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

>>61802585
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.

>>61800264
I really want one but its too expensive for me.

>>61805750
I think they are as good or better than xeons.

>>61800264
when gaming benchmarks?

>>61805845
Its not really for gaming. I don't think windows will run on these CPUs.

>>61805845
Did you miss the part about it being POWER9?

>>61805884
So at least 240fps in Oregon Trail 2, then?

>>61801301
Just one?

>>61801740
is it an atx motherboard?

>>61807785
I think its either ATX or EATX.

>>61807785
EATX. It should fit into a standard case if its big enough

>>61805884
What is power9

>>61807814
A server CPU architecture made by IBM that runs all free as in freedom firmware.

>>61802551
now it just needs an open gpu and sas controller.

>>61807893
Couldn't you buy a 660 ti and and use nouveau?

>>61807909
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.

>>61807829
What are the CPU specs?

>>61808054
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. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER9

>>61800264
Pair it with QEMU x86 emu and it is:
ULTIMATE
COMFY

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>>61800264
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?

>>61807893
>>61807979

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
https://github.com/fail0verflow/radeon-tools/tree/master/f32

>>61808169
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.

>>61811252

>upto 8-way SMT

Nazi science at its finest.

>>61812163
Nazi ? It's still master juden tech, power9 was requested by "someone" and IBM delivered.

>>61812163
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?

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>>61813741

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

>>61808169
>not buying the mobo/cpu/heatsink bundle only
The rest is totally overpriced for what it is.

>>61814269
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?

>>61814290
is the motherboard standard ATX form factor? imagine putting this in one of those IBM 771 xeon cases, so cool.

>>61815263
>is the motherboard standard ATX form factor
Yes, it's a standard ATX motherboard.

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>>61800264
$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?

>>61815309
no. its eatx and it wont fit in a atx case because its bigger.

>>61815722
It's still a standard form factor though.

>>61815722
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

>>61810919
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.

>>61808169
>Why?
Most likely because there are no freetard oprical disc drives

>>61815711
Debian is available for POWER. Gentoo too, obviously.

>>61817709
nice. maybe i will get this instead of an amd cpu when i upgrade from i5 2500k

>>61814269
its

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

>>61815711
There's ubuntu ppc64le too.
Reminder that you should run little endian, big endian linux is a mess.

>>61820140
You mean that C, the _portable assembler_, makes it impossible to abstract over a menial detail like endianess!?

>>61805750
POWER9 can kick the arse of a Xeon 4 times per core.

>>61805750

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?