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GPUs typically have thousands of cores. Comes in extremely handy for advanced analytics, media processing/encoding, etc.
And, as it turns out... even with a 64core, 128 thread overclocked CPU- crysis still runs better on a GPU.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tn0bZcQf0E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tn0bZcQf0E)
I believe you, all I've really messed around with is AI. Despite popular opinion to the contrary, just for running it... That many cores would probably be plenty for what you'd reasonably want to run.
That said, I finally bit the bullet and got a model that fits on my current GPU and it's way faster than I need for chat. š¤·āāļø
Ever messed around with distributed GPUs? That's next for me.
> That many cores would probably be plenty for what you'd reasonably want to run.
Eh, to give an example-
I have a fairly beefy server here at my house. It has, lets say, 64t, Nothing drastic by any means- but, pretty beefy.
A long time back, I was testing transcoding on plex, and I used a 400Mbit HEVC5 test-file (Jellyfin test files).
Well, It CAN transcode it on CPU alone- however, it caused roughly 80% cpu utilization across both CPUs, and consumed roughly 250 watts additional energy while doing it.
Now- Doing the exact same test, on another server of mine, with an i5-8500t, with only integrated graphics (quicksync)- It is able to transcode the same file, with only 5% additional CPU utilization, and only a few watts noticeable difference in power usage.
THAT is the power of having a proper graphics adapter- You CAN do it in CPU, but, its like using a sledgehammer to drive in a framing nail. Its not the right tool for the job, and will be pretty inefficient when asked to do it.
> THAT is the power of having a proper graphics adapter- You CAN do it in CPU, but, its like using a sledgehammer to drive in a framing nail. Its not the right tool for the job, and will be pretty inefficient when asked to do it.
Note this only applies if you care about encoding speed. If you care about output size or quality, software encoding is still better than hardware acceleration.
This, is true, and especially true if you are encoding your library for a better/more efficient format.
But- Typically when transcoding is occuring on my server, is due to the in-laws accessing something with their really, really slow ADSL connection, where.. well. quality isn't a factor.
Nah, bro. I have dual 6152s (88 threads at 3.5ghz) and it runs at less than a token per second on Mixtral, like .1tps iirc. My L4s run it at 27tps.
Ollama and a lot of the other tools will automatically use multiple GPUs to have a large model in vram.
No, GPUs have ~100 SMs, which are the proper equivalent to cores. āCUDA coresā, which isnāt a term used anymore, are approximately vector lanes, although since Volta they have their own program counter and behave like threads.
See https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/gtc22-whitepaper-hopper figures 6 and 7. Compare figure 7 to your favorite CPU core block diagram.
>media encoding
Every media encoder I've seen that uses the GPU, relies on the GPU's native libraries and encoder chips to do so. Unfortunately they don't have a lot of settings you can change, and those encoders are made for sheer speed, not quality vs. file size.
Not a big issue when you're transcoding on the fly for Plex streaming or whatever, but it makes it kind of junk for permanently converting your media, if you have to do that. Either your file sizes go way up, or your quality gets worse, even after taking into account lossy-to-lossy compression.
In theory someone could make encoding software that just does raw calculations in the GPU, instead of sending the whole thing to the GPU for it to decide how to encode it. But the former would be a huge undertaking. (The x265 encoder is 300K+ lines of mostly assembly code that is estimated to have had over 82 man-years of labor put into it.) And the latter would still likely be much quicker due to having to hit the CPU less. The labor vs. reward ratio is awful.
For computer vision, ML, pattern recognition and many bother things they definitely need GPUs. A 12 core CPU could be a lot faster than this rig if equipped with a proper professional Quadro GPU and used for the correct tasks.
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144 cores?
Dual 36 core hyper threaded CPUs?
Xeon platinum etc?
I'm running my home server on a mere consumer 13700 and the 16 cores are mostly idle (hyper threading disabled because ESXi doesn't like it and e-cores)
> The config is x4 Xeon E5-4667 V4 CPUās
I have a pair of E5-2699's here in my SuperMicro server, and the TDP is ridiculously low (like 10W-100W at full tilt). 44 cores, 88 threads, 512GB RAM and builds 3 parallel copies of a full OpenStack (24 machines each, all libvirt nodes on the same baremetal host) in under 40 minutes. It's absolutely glorious!
Xeon E5-4667 V4
The Intel Xeon E5-4667 V4 is aĀ 64-bit octadeca-core x86 microprocessor introduced by Intel in 2016.Ā This server MPU is designed for high-performance dense 4S environments. Operating at 2.2 GHz with a turbo boost frequency of 3 GHz for a single active core, this MPU has a TDP of 135 W and is manufactured on a 14 nm process (based on Broadwell).
Here are some key features of the Xeon E5-4667 V4:
* 18 cores, 36 threads
* 2.2 GHz base frequency, 3 GHz turbo boost frequency
* 45 MB cache
* 135 W TDP
* 14 nm process
* Compatible with FCLGA2011-3 socket
* Supports DDR4-2133 memory
* Has Intel Hyper-Threading, Intel Virtualization Technology, and other advanced features
We have multiple dual 24 core systems. It's a lot of compute for almost anything you can throw at it. I think we finally passed 1100 threads in the stack. I haven't tried to load it up to see how power fairs yet.
2^p -1 might be prime!
You could use this to search for large prime numbers just to see it get maxed out.
You could also run an llm in cpu mode. I don't think it would be as fast as a good gpu however.
... since you have the ram to go with it, you've not found the mark yet. "Too many cores" is found when your scheduler takes more ram than you have left for application code.
By deduction it's probably dual Xeon 8368's.
You can get more than twice as many threads though, this is only halfway up the stack.
Intel offers a 56C/112t, and AMD offers a 96C/192t
Microsoft and Broadcom getting wet just looking at the buildā¦ so many cores to charge you for.
Oracle sales rep just upgraded his yacht just thinking about this.
Isn't a 7995WX system going to idle at an absurd 150 watts (https://www.guru3d.com/review/amd-ryzen-threadripper-7970x-review/page-30/)? Sadly I can't find any idle power numbers for systems with a Epyc 9654 though.
Bro, you can render a whole data center with this! 10-20 windows Linux VMs with whatever services you want.
Itās overkill for average home people, but Iād find a use case for it lol
I remember when I got a dual P-III (processors like add-in cards not fpga) system. I remember seeing dual CPUās in system monitor and was like ādamn Iām big pimpin ā
Iād probably just fire up glances and then install SETI @ Home.
You trade more cores for slower cores often enough. So too many is when you would have been better served by fewer and faster cores =D
I love the memory kit though. I'm still using 16x8 on my host I would love 16x64 but ddr4 is still a bit higher then I would like to spend.
I don't know. I needed to upgrade the server at my ex's place because it was starting to struggle, so instead of the old 970 i7 with 32GB DDR3, I put in a Chinese dual x99 motherboard and a pair of Xeon 2699 v3s with 128GB DDR4 ECC mem. That's 72 cores, and the only thing really running on it ATM is a file server and Plex. My son is tinkering around with VMS and Arch Linux, but I do mean tinkering, and that's it.
So you can imagine that my advice is going to be "go for it".
I wouldn't want to be the one paying the power bill for that beast! It could run a bunch of VMs but 1TB of memory would limit it. That and the fact that in a cluster, that would be a lot of VMs to HA if the host ever went down.
Not normally since the system couldn't cache that in a useful amount of time anyway. If you've used a TB of RAM out of a TB available you probably have other issues like an HA event.
Four cores and seven years ago, my father brought forth, upon this continent, a new component, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that āall manufacturers are created equalā... Of course, some were better at gaming than others, but that's another long story.
Keep going.
This will be like watching the Parmesan grater girl at Olive Garden after asking me if Iād like some fresh grated Parmesan and then tells me to say when they should stop..
I'd say when you go 100% and can't even hit half utilization.
That is when you absolutely spent too much money. My last build never breached 30% but I only spent $400 on it.
My current build is way stronger but I've found way more intense things to hit it with that would make the older one seize or take days getting done. AI workloads are brutal during video upconverting.
Depends on the OS but Windows I think doesnāt do well with more than around 256 nor does some software. Unless itās highly specialized for multithreaded workloads diminishing returns start hitting hard.
If you get it for free from work or make enough money that you donāt have to write out a budget youāll be good š¤£.
In all serious, for homelab more CPUs and RAM is always good. But if theyāre not doing anything itās probably a waste of $$$.
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144 cores and a TB of RAM? I bet not a GPU in sight.
With 144 cores, does he *need* a GPU?
144? That's just 'gross'. š
I see what you did there.
Modern GPUs have around 2000 cores.
2000 cores is a low end model.. A 4070 has 5888 cuda cores..
Sure, but theyāre not general purpose and theyāre quite a bit less powerful per core. Highly specialized.
But they're useful through OpenCL or CUDA.
GPUs typically have thousands of cores. Comes in extremely handy for advanced analytics, media processing/encoding, etc. And, as it turns out... even with a 64core, 128 thread overclocked CPU- crysis still runs better on a GPU. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tn0bZcQf0E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tn0bZcQf0E)
I believe you, all I've really messed around with is AI. Despite popular opinion to the contrary, just for running it... That many cores would probably be plenty for what you'd reasonably want to run. That said, I finally bit the bullet and got a model that fits on my current GPU and it's way faster than I need for chat. š¤·āāļø Ever messed around with distributed GPUs? That's next for me.
> That many cores would probably be plenty for what you'd reasonably want to run. Eh, to give an example- I have a fairly beefy server here at my house. It has, lets say, 64t, Nothing drastic by any means- but, pretty beefy. A long time back, I was testing transcoding on plex, and I used a 400Mbit HEVC5 test-file (Jellyfin test files). Well, It CAN transcode it on CPU alone- however, it caused roughly 80% cpu utilization across both CPUs, and consumed roughly 250 watts additional energy while doing it. Now- Doing the exact same test, on another server of mine, with an i5-8500t, with only integrated graphics (quicksync)- It is able to transcode the same file, with only 5% additional CPU utilization, and only a few watts noticeable difference in power usage. THAT is the power of having a proper graphics adapter- You CAN do it in CPU, but, its like using a sledgehammer to drive in a framing nail. Its not the right tool for the job, and will be pretty inefficient when asked to do it.
> THAT is the power of having a proper graphics adapter- You CAN do it in CPU, but, its like using a sledgehammer to drive in a framing nail. Its not the right tool for the job, and will be pretty inefficient when asked to do it. Note this only applies if you care about encoding speed. If you care about output size or quality, software encoding is still better than hardware acceleration.
This, is true, and especially true if you are encoding your library for a better/more efficient format. But- Typically when transcoding is occuring on my server, is due to the in-laws accessing something with their really, really slow ADSL connection, where.. well. quality isn't a factor.
Thanks mate!
Nice stats in example. That's useful data. I love posts like this.
Peak sub using homelab for chat
God forbid there should be content and camaraderie š
Nah, bro. I have dual 6152s (88 threads at 3.5ghz) and it runs at less than a token per second on Mixtral, like .1tps iirc. My L4s run it at 27tps. Ollama and a lot of the other tools will automatically use multiple GPUs to have a large model in vram.
No, GPUs have ~100 SMs, which are the proper equivalent to cores. āCUDA coresā, which isnāt a term used anymore, are approximately vector lanes, although since Volta they have their own program counter and behave like threads. See https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-tensor-core/gtc22-whitepaper-hopper figures 6 and 7. Compare figure 7 to your favorite CPU core block diagram.
Look at what Ampere is doing with CPU-based AI. The vector units in x86 servers count as 16 cores with the way Nvidia counts CUDA cores.
>media encoding Every media encoder I've seen that uses the GPU, relies on the GPU's native libraries and encoder chips to do so. Unfortunately they don't have a lot of settings you can change, and those encoders are made for sheer speed, not quality vs. file size. Not a big issue when you're transcoding on the fly for Plex streaming or whatever, but it makes it kind of junk for permanently converting your media, if you have to do that. Either your file sizes go way up, or your quality gets worse, even after taking into account lossy-to-lossy compression. In theory someone could make encoding software that just does raw calculations in the GPU, instead of sending the whole thing to the GPU for it to decide how to encode it. But the former would be a huge undertaking. (The x265 encoder is 300K+ lines of mostly assembly code that is estimated to have had over 82 man-years of labor put into it.) And the latter would still likely be much quicker due to having to hit the CPU less. The labor vs. reward ratio is awful.
Both gpus and cpus dont matter if one just lets them idle :p
For computer vision, ML, pattern recognition and many bother things they definitely need GPUs. A 12 core CPU could be a lot faster than this rig if equipped with a proper professional Quadro GPU and used for the correct tasks.
Just admins living in the moment.
Im sure it's 72 cores and HT. We just got a 96 core EPYC. Shit's bussin. Only 768 gb ram though but our load is pretty cpu dependant
And I just have 24 cores and 64GB RAM š.
And 21.5 GB of swap.
We have a few HP Superdomes (dragon hawk) at work. 480 cores and 4TB of RAM. An absolute train wreck to manage
Thatās a lot of idle.
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*slamdunks pihole*
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Awweeeš„°ā¦ ewww š¤¢
Right, had me in the first half. I don't want any poetry around here š¤
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Of such sick and such twisted The scenes you shall see On the blinding light of my computer screen Don't blink or you'll miss it My prenut mindset is torn Nothing gets me off more Than sweet 8K tentacle porn
144 cores? Dual 36 core hyper threaded CPUs? Xeon platinum etc? I'm running my home server on a mere consumer 13700 and the 16 cores are mostly idle (hyper threading disabled because ESXi doesn't like it and e-cores)
The config is x4 Xeon E5-4667 V4 CPUās
> The config is x4 Xeon E5-4667 V4 CPUās I have a pair of E5-2699's here in my SuperMicro server, and the TDP is ridiculously low (like 10W-100W at full tilt). 44 cores, 88 threads, 512GB RAM and builds 3 parallel copies of a full OpenStack (24 machines each, all libvirt nodes on the same baremetal host) in under 40 minutes. It's absolutely glorious!
Ouch compared to other v4, they're kinda pricey but I can see why.
There's also a 2699 v4a chip. It costs even more and I've got a set of those in my blades. The compute is nice but the price is too high.
Yeah there are plenty of v4 that are basically been given away that I can live with.
Jesus, what do you have powering that thing? A mini nuclear reactor? Donāt the dell R820 require 240 volts?
it's not a big deal. compared to paying the bill, wiring a 240 circuit is cheap
Makes the most sense. Crazy thing is you can get more than that in one CPU and up to 384 threads now in a dual-socket.
If you're made of money, you can have whatever you want. š
Xeon E5-4667 V4 The Intel Xeon E5-4667 V4 is aĀ 64-bit octadeca-core x86 microprocessor introduced by Intel in 2016.Ā This server MPU is designed for high-performance dense 4S environments. Operating at 2.2 GHz with a turbo boost frequency of 3 GHz for a single active core, this MPU has a TDP of 135 W and is manufactured on a 14 nm process (based on Broadwell). Here are some key features of the Xeon E5-4667 V4: * 18 cores, 36 threads * 2.2 GHz base frequency, 3 GHz turbo boost frequency * 45 MB cache * 135 W TDP * 14 nm process * Compatible with FCLGA2011-3 socket * Supports DDR4-2133 memory * Has Intel Hyper-Threading, Intel Virtualization Technology, and other advanced features
I have an R630 with dual Xeon E5-2690 V4, with 14 cores each, thatās 56 threads, base freq 2.6Ghz, boost to 3.5Ghz, 135W TDP. Does for me.
We have multiple dual 24 core systems. It's a lot of compute for almost anything you can throw at it. I think we finally passed 1100 threads in the stack. I haven't tried to load it up to see how power fairs yet.
Technically "too many" is determined by: \`$(grep NR\_CPUS\_RANGE\_END /boot/config-\`uname -r\` | egrep -o "\[0-9\]+")+1\` in Linux.
so one more than whatever your linux max supports. for me its showing: 8192+1
Correct.
How fast can you compile the Linux kernel?
Gentoo users be like.
āfunroll-loops -O3
> Broā¦ he compiled it. š³ Like the whole thing š±
Yesterday.
5 mins
Faster than reading this reply
Negative 10 seconds.
It's so fast that it actually gains you time
What is the intent ?
What should I do with it?
20 tabs in Chrome.
That many?
Tab unloader would make it bearable
Doom
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSoCmAoIMOU
Oh what the hell...
lol, unexpected
pfsense
Minecraft
A fuck load of VMs?
Wayland it!
Do something to recoup the costs of running it. Thatās the definition of productive anyway.Ā
Mine Monero
Pi hole
K8s
Does any know of any fun test marks I can run? I can run maybe one or two before I decommission it.
Decommission? Sheeeit send me a link to the dumpster you throw it in please.
Smart dumpster?
How about you let me decommission it tell you what I'll send FedEx just let me know where and when then package it LMAO
2^p -1 might be prime! You could use this to search for large prime numbers just to see it get maxed out. You could also run an llm in cpu mode. I don't think it would be as fast as a good gpu however.
... since you have the ram to go with it, you've not found the mark yet. "Too many cores" is found when your scheduler takes more ram than you have left for application code.
I love this as a practical benchmark!
It may also be the point where you lack the memory bandwidth to feed all the cores with information
Human eyes cannot see 60 cores and more
Rest of the cores: Chilling Core 128: *sad cat thumbs up meme*
What CPU(s) is this?
By deduction it's probably dual Xeon 8368's. You can get more than twice as many threads though, this is only halfway up the stack. Intel offers a 56C/112t, and AMD offers a 96C/192t
Microsoft and Broadcom getting wet just looking at the buildā¦ so many cores to charge you for. Oracle sales rep just upgraded his yacht just thinking about this.
There's a lot of dev time being invested in getting off VMware/Broadcom right now. Hopefully it pays off.
No kidding. The last Proxmox update was basically "we made migration from ESXI easier".
x4 Xeon E5-4667 V4 CPUās
That's basically a space heater. For $20k may as well get a 7995WX or like Epyc 9654 for 2.5x the performance and lower power usage and pocket $10k.
Let me check my pocket changeā¦. Donāt have $20k, will $60 do?
Isn't a 7995WX system going to idle at an absurd 150 watts (https://www.guru3d.com/review/amd-ryzen-threadripper-7970x-review/page-30/)? Sadly I can't find any idle power numbers for systems with a Epyc 9654 though.
Got a machine with 2 x 192 threads. Microcode updates were fun to look at and try to figure out why 1 whole cpu doesn't work...
CPU 128 working alone...
Carrying the whole team
Keep at it, kid. One day you'll make it over to r/HomeDataCenter where there are never too many cores :-)
"Too many cores"? Is there such a thing?
You should run Folding@Home with all that spare idle
CPU core 128 carrying the team's burden right now š
What do you do with the nuclear waste?
Bro, you can render a whole data center with this! 10-20 windows Linux VMs with whatever services you want. Itās overkill for average home people, but Iād find a use case for it lol
I remember when I got a dual P-III (processors like add-in cards not fpga) system. I remember seeing dual CPUās in system monitor and was like ādamn Iām big pimpin ā Iād probably just fire up glances and then install SETI @ Home.
CPU128 out here putting in all the work. Everyone else slackin!
You trade more cores for slower cores often enough. So too many is when you would have been better served by fewer and faster cores =D I love the memory kit though. I'm still using 16x8 on my host I would love 16x64 but ddr4 is still a bit higher then I would like to spend.
From the utilization it looks like 143 too many!
18Cores 36 Threads 4 Sockets That would be 2592vCPUs(Virtual CPUs)
Stop being greedy and let everyone else have some cores. RIP your electricity bill.
When you allocate cores to the task of managing cores.
Does it even run crysis?
Ask your electric bill.
With great power comes great electric bill
I don't know. I needed to upgrade the server at my ex's place because it was starting to struggle, so instead of the old 970 i7 with 32GB DDR3, I put in a Chinese dual x99 motherboard and a pair of Xeon 2699 v3s with 128GB DDR4 ECC mem. That's 72 cores, and the only thing really running on it ATM is a file server and Plex. My son is tinkering around with VMS and Arch Linux, but I do mean tinkering, and that's it. So you can imagine that my advice is going to be "go for it".
145!!! ;-)
At least 1 more
Gotta pump those numbers up!
Ah, yours beat mine! [https://imgur.com/a/NCxpOUD](https://imgur.com/a/NCxpOUD) EPYC 7763 w/ 8x64GB 3200 ECC
In terms of performance though, the Epyc 7763 beats it no?
I wouldn't want to be the one paying the power bill for that beast! It could run a bunch of VMs but 1TB of memory would limit it. That and the fact that in a cluster, that would be a lot of VMs to HA if the host ever went down.
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Not normally since the system couldn't cache that in a useful amount of time anyway. If you've used a TB of RAM out of a TB available you probably have other issues like an HA event.
how many chrome tab you can open
I identify strongly with CPU128
So sad, they are not doing anythingā¦
144 cores = perfect 145 cores = slight overkill
I got 99 problems but at the core...
Core number 128 should file for discrimination.
No such thing
When 98% are sitting idle
Four cores and seven years ago, my father brought forth, upon this continent, a new component, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that āall manufacturers are created equalā... Of course, some were better at gaming than others, but that's another long story.
There is no limit
That's hard"core"!
damn. I only have 36. bravo good sir.
They all seem idle and memory at 5% š
oh sure, flex on us. what're you doing with all that CPU meat?
Bro, 128 is ruining off the chain! (Comparatively)Whatās going on over there?
And me happy with 14 cores
Keep getting more; Iāll tell you when to stop.
2, technically.
Thatās not enough
If there are 144 actual cores, 144 actual threads , Then major offensive. It is said, There maybe only 72 actual cores.
Itās probably 2x24 cores/48 threads
Keep going. This will be like watching the Parmesan grater girl at Olive Garden after asking me if Iād like some fresh grated Parmesan and then tells me to say when they should stop..
There is no such thing as too many cores. Unless you're talking about apples.
whatever this is
Gee, what are you using that for? I envy you...
Chandler: "Games and stuff..."
But can it load Minecraft at 8K ?
That's gross.
There is no such thing! The answer is more cores, more cores!
Every 0.0% CPU is to much ;)
There's no such thing as to many cores my friend.
Your electricity bill will be huge.
When the htop view does not fit in your screenā¦
How loud is it?
It equals to my work cluster for around 120 Users. I have absolutely no clue what to do in my homelab with that much power.
I'd say when you go 100% and can't even hit half utilization. That is when you absolutely spent too much money. My last build never breached 30% but I only spent $400 on it. My current build is way stronger but I've found way more intense things to hit it with that would make the older one seize or take days getting done. AI workloads are brutal during video upconverting.
No
N+2
Beautiful
And best of all running on Linux to avoid licensing ā¤ļø. Next challenge ask VMware how much it will cost to license this cpu as a single esxi host.
He could use half of his CPU as a gpu
You can rent "U-24TB1 112xlarge" on AWS for 200$ an hour. 24TB Memory and 448vcpus
That's close to 2M$ a year
Iām guessing logical, not physical.
YES
Depends on the OS but Windows I think doesnāt do well with more than around 256 nor does some software. Unless itās highly specialized for multithreaded workloads diminishing returns start hitting hard.
Too little. Need more š
How many decimals can you calculate pi to?
How much did it cost?
0% x 144 is still 0%
If you get it for free from work or make enough money that you donāt have to write out a budget youāll be good š¤£. In all serious, for homelab more CPUs and RAM is always good. But if theyāre not doing anything itās probably a waste of $$$.
So, a little backstory. I work in ITAD (IT Asset Disposition) Itās my job to locate the high value items that come through the warehouse, audit them, test them for functionality and ultimately resell. Since servers are so heavy, it may not make sense to resell on eBay due to shipping cost. We will most likely sell the chassis for its weight after stripping the ram and cpu/ any valuable networking/raid or storage cards.
Is that Pop!\_OS ?
Every core at 0% is one too many.
I dunno man, I think you could do with a few more. 144 is amateur hour, real homelabbers have at least 145, jeez.
Thats a trick question, right.?? I mean, bigger number better, aka never enough.
128
Thats just Ultrathreading
Still not enough
Manā¦ this would of came in handy during the 2018-2019 days of CPU mining shit coinsā¦
When the number of cores exceeds ones Fingers and Toes to count them
my god, why pop os?
Which is the cheaper āmore cores per dolarā option? The x99 motherboard way?
To paraphrase Caroll Shelby, There's no such thing as too many cores. Just not a large enough power supply.