nazon
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Lol /agree.
I ended up returning it to the seller with prepaid label and have a new one on the way.
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Lol /agree.
I ended up returning it to the seller with prepaid label and have a new one on the way.
Noodleface
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Folanlron
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What OS are you testing on them?
#1 ) If its some flavour of Linux how about trying flooding the beast with multiple simultaneous gcc stress tests for ..... say ..... overnight ?
Early Zens apparently had an intermittent hardware bug with branchy code, blowing out randomly during heavy compiles.
#2) Check out how well the VM stuff works? So many PCIe channels could be fun to play with multiple graphics cards in a VM.
So still same problem as the Zens after a 25hour stress, the CPU just gave up(complete shut-down, server tech had to hard-reset the rack). It is fast as fuck, when it's stable.
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Noodleface
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Ryzens are failing/bsod compiling stuff I guess. There are fixes but nothing from amd yet.
Mostly affecting Linux users.
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Damn, lol, slackers better have a revision fix baking already if there is no BIOS fix possible. Can you try another run without their hyper threading sauce on?
IIRC Intels hyper threading was borked for at least a generation or two before people started using it, and it still breaks from time to time. Most recent threading bugs just fixed a few months ago. Surprised both AMD and Intel are not getting more bad press for it.
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Or racks dont' run with hyperthreading on (while hyperthreading is nice for daily use, in a dev enviroment they are not stable at all(cause of the way it splits the cache between the real and virtual CPUs)) they are just in a test rack, not running anything specific mainly for us to throw shit at and see if we can break it haha, I'll be able to run more testing later, but work comes first before play time...
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Lurkingmoar
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Palum
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I don't have Photoshop so imagine I photoshopped a picture of a Vega rx into the hands of an old timey miner to replace his pickaxe.jpg
Lurkingmoar
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Yes, ever since ethereum crypto shot up. According to Linus one of the reasons AMD announced the Vega Radeon packs is to deter miners from grabbing all Vega cards.
RX Vega Radeon™ Packs: The Perfect Gateway to the AMD Gaming Ecosystem
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I sure AMD does too. Juicy mining revenue certainly helps take most of sting out of being unable to compete toe to toe with NV in gaming.
Def fun time to be playing with AMD stock atm, it will just take a generation (Zen2 Navi etc) or two before profits from Zen play out in market products though.
Palum
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Just saying it will take a couple years before really see effects (good or bad) of AMDs potential resurgence into black. They should have some more money to play with at the table.
Making no assumptions pf change wrt NV and Intel above: both are and have been healthy and will likely continute innovating and spending at current pace. A healthier AMD on the other hand has a chance to gain market share and speed up a little from their snail pace of innovation atm. AMD has not been healthy, having had to cut/canibalize a lot to survive. They shifted their focus to CPU side, slipping significantly as a result on Gfx side. AMD looking @ coming back into the black means a possibility for healthy re-investment to heal those cuts.
Everyone will likely continue to innovate but with diminishing returns, with all players converging towards same point for a couple of years, at whatever rate they can afford... until next node.
