I ran into a major problem when my machine went south on 14 June. If you downloaded the FREE Win 10 pro and you have to do a major hardware upgrade, YOU CANNOT ACTIVE under the same product key as you could with Win 7. I went through multiple installs with an i7/950 & an i7/440K using the initial key. If you try you will get a NOT VALID WINDOWS message, so I had to bite the bullet and buy a USB install stick. It seems that retail OEM install DVDs that are the only ones that are available now days as they stopped with the install DVDs.

M$ want you to download the iso and pay for the product directly from them these days. ;-)

Cheers.

I'm sure for the majority of the PC user Universe ... this has all fallen on deaf ears. Best way to voice a comment in my opinion is with the pocketbook.

Those of you that are running Raspberries might find this interesting. http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/new-linux-trojans-installs-crypto-currency-mining-software-on-raspberry-pi.html

As an AMD fanboi, I hope that everyone forgives the hyperbole of Martin. I go back to the Nexgen 586 when I decided I was going to jump ship on the "bleeding edge" $1000 Intel processors. I've always approached my PC building from the "bang for the buck" philosophy. I will not offer any argument for AMD for IPC specs against concurrent Intel. There is none. But I will argue for the position that equivalent 3/4 performance of Intel systems for half the cost for AMD systems has kept me in the AMD camp for 20 years. They have always been "good enough" for general and scientific computing since I never gamed. The delivery of Ryzen has only reaffirmed my belief in AMD and I have NEVER had any buyers remorse from my AMD builds.

Just another positive instance for what is happening now in the UK and for what can be done further...

As shown by Gridwatch (UK) (despite the bias shown towards fossil fuels...), at the moment the UK electricity is being powered by about 75% NON-fossils.

The mix is:

Coal:       0%
Gas:       26%
Nuclear:   23%
Wind:      10%
Solar:     24%
Biomass:    7%
Imports:    9%

(The imported electricity is from Holland and France which is wind and nuclear. There is also hydro and Ireland import at about 0.5% each.)


There is more wind power and solar to come online, despite subsidies being slashed/removed such that oil remains the biggest beneficiary via 'tax breaks' (pollution costs be damned).

Here's hoping that where morals and pollution have failed, the cold costs will eventually win. Hopefully not too late...

Coal:       0%
Gas:       21%
Nuclear:   24%
Wind:      20%
Solar:     21%
Biomass:    5%
Imports:    8%

Actually AMD and Intel did a bit of cross licensing a while back (early last year I think it was, but I can't find the link now) so you're seeing what came from Intel to AMD's CPU line, but we're yet to see what AMD has done for Intel's iGPU's (hopefully that won't be to far away now). ;-)

Both the E5-2560 v4 & E5-2699A v4 they used in the comparison support 1536GB of DD4 @ 2400MHz in single socket configurations or 3TB in dual socket configurations.
The previous generation E5 v3 CPUs support 768MB of DDR4 @ 2133MHz in single socket configurations or 1.5TB in dual socket configurations

Maybe Intel's new Xeon Platinum and Gold Series Processors With Up To 28 Cores / 56 Threads would've been a better choice for a comparison.

In actual fact there's 1 climbing up the charts here ATM, https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=8248959, and that's just a mid-range job.

Cheers.

What current Intel hardware would you compare against and at what price?

... compare current low end with low end, current mid range with midrange and current high end with high end.

Given Epyc is AMDs new high end data centre CPU, they should be using Intel's current high end data centre CPU as a comparison, not a mid-high end product.
Since Epyc would most likely be the biggest and best from AMD (for now) then comparison with the current top of the range Intel i7 Xeon would seem appropriate.

(And which Intel hardware can accept 512GB of DDR4 memory?)

No idea.

And those AMD benchmarks very nicely trounce the best of Intel. Also interesting there for the use of Ubuntu 16.10 (Linux) to make the best use of all that performance.

Yeah, comparing the latest AMD hardware to older Intel hardware that also has less RAM than the AMD system is a really great way to compare performance...

More proof that the modelling business is out of touch with reality.

Skinny model sacked for allegedly appearing “bloated” and “too big”.

When will they learn to get "real".

Cheers.

Model's are just people's fantasies. Just as car advertisements are.

Get real.

Coal:       0%
Gas:       26%
Nuclear:   23%
Wind:      10%
Solar:     24%
Biomass:    7%
Imports:    9%