Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)

submitted 10 months ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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This is the fastest Arm desktop in the world, yes, even faster than the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. And today, I made it even faster.

I upgraded everything: Faster RAM, 128 core CPU, 40 series GPU, I did it all, and we'll see how much we can obliterate the M2 Mac Pro.

As of today, I have this thing running 128 CPU cores at 2.8 GHz. I upgraded the RAM to 384 GB of DDR4 3200 ECC RAM, specifically six Samsung 64 GB sticks. I installed an Nvidia 4070 Ti.

It's running both Ubuntu 22.04 Server and Windows 11 for Arm now. I even got Steam installed on Ubuntu, after so many commenters kindly pointed out Box86 and Box64 exist!

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[-] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 21 points 10 months ago

I booted up that system and after waiting an hour or so for Windows Update to finish

... 🙄

Crazy workstation though -- wish I had need for all that power so I could justify buying one to play with

[-] GenderNeutralBro 4 points 10 months ago

To clarify, that was on the windows dev kit running snapdragon, not his beastly Ampere system.

[-] Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Ahh I missed that!

Makes more sense then -- that seemed a bit long for any update

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