Le_Forgeron wrote:
> > [4xAMD8347, 1.9GHz, 64GB RAM]
>
> I like it.
>
> It's about the same time as 1xi7 980X, 3.3GHz using gcc
> (i7 is using 12 threads on 6 HT cores, but the povray's performances is
> about 7.3 true cores only on that i7)
>
> Notice that the memory amount probably does not care for benchmark, once
> the basic need has been covered.

Moore's Law at work. :)

I got these boards cheap (200 USD) some time ago, and only recently had an
excuse to get the stuff to start populating them, so processors and used RAM are
also inexpensive. The RAM is fully-populated since this machine is meant for
solving fairly large finite element models, which doesn't take all that long
(even on this older beast) IF you can keep the whole thing in memory. It's also
outfitted with 8xSSD SATA II drives in RAID 6 to cut down on file I/O time.

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