Post #4237347
2026-07-30 10:27 UTC
@jaseg@chaos.social there's a reason i stopped buying consumer hardware ~15 years ago lol.
well ok mostly it was I wanted ECC RAM (and a lot of it) but tons of PCIe lanes also come in handy for the things I do. I can't imagine having only 24 lanes in a workstation, a 100G NIC and a GPU is 32 before you even add anything else like SSDs
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange 2026-07-30 10:29
@jaseg@chaos.social Other than the storage clusters which are skylake/cascade lake xeons, pretty much everything else in my fleet (VM server, office workstation, lab workstation, microscope bench workstation) is icelake xeon except my newest machine, the core router, which is a sapphire rapids
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@jaseg@chaos.social 2026-07-30 10:29
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange I’m coming to that same realization now :)