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Bought myself an Ampere Altra system

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204 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | source
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timzaman ◴[30 Jun 25 05:48 UTC] No.44419851[source]▶
Offtopic, I'm so confused why this is top1 on my HN? Just a pretty normal build?
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szszrk ◴[30 Jun 25 05:52 UTC] No.44419869[source]▶
Normal ARM64 80 core system with $1000 EATX motherboard? How is this typical?
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1. tinix ◴[30 Jun 25 06:39 UTC] No.44420162[source]▶
EATX is a pretty standard server motherboard form factor.

It's not even a multiple CPU board...

This is indeed a pretty standard (and weak) ARM server build.

You can get the same CPU M128-30 with 128 3ghz cores for under $800 USD.

You can throw two into a Gigabyte MP72-HB0 and fit it into a full tower case easily.

That'd only cost like $3,200 USD for 256 cores.

RAM is cheap, and that board could take 16 DIMMs.

If you used 16 GB DIMM like OP that's only 256 GB of RAM, in a server, it is not that much... only one gig per core... for like $500 USD.

Maybe for a personal build this seems extravagant but it's nothing special for a server.