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1. 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:50:00 JST 7666
   y'all be like "wowee arm is so cool and cheap look at my raspberry pi"
   
   meanwhile in x86 land:
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:51 JST meso

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     @7666 probably idk i cant find any non-rack servers, racks are really loud and I want to sleep peacefully
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:52 JST meso

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     @7666 there's Opterons being thrown out though, and also A4/6/8's
   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:53 JST 7666

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     @meso AMD epyc hasn't hit the levels of "businesses throwing out old servers for pennies on the dollar" that haswell/broadwell generation kit has
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:54 JST meso

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     @7666 what about AMD ones? only cheap ones I can find are a specific Lenovo model :blob_neutral:
   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:55 JST 7666

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     @meso ok well start here, this will slot broadwell xeons https://www.ebay.com/itm/364100175108
     
     i'm looking for lower power CPUs for my storage server right now because of
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:56 JST meso

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     @7666 wait is this just the CPU? well yeah they're cheap but then you need to buy motherboard, RAM, PSU, case, storage, etc
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:57 JST meso

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     @7666 :marseyaware: what country holy SHIT
   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:58 JST 7666

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     @meso
     https://www.ebay.com/itm/275307280794
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:49:59 JST meso

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     @7666 now show the shipping :marseyclueless:
   • 7666 (7666@comp.lain.la)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:50:31 JST 7666

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     @meso AMD's opteron era was incredibly cringe and none of them sold
     
     single thread perf was pentium 4 tier back then and will bring any application that dares to put work onto a single thread for even a moment to a crawl
     
     use workstation towers, they're dead quiet
   • meso (meso@asbestos.cafe)'s status on Monday, 27-Feb-2023 04:50:31 JST meso

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     @7666 is that why they had like 32 cores per server :meow: