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    I5 9600k @ 5.0 Ghz, is this ok as voltage?

    For a chip that doesn't have hyperthreading that's not a surprising result. Add another .02-.05V with HT and that gets you to the ~1.3V most chips need to reach 5.0GHz.
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    I'm not making the argument that "Intel is in trouble", I've actually been arguing against that premise from the beginning so I don't think we're really in disagreement here. What I am saying is that AMD Epyc CPUs offer some long-needed competition in the datacenter market, and are worthy of...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    Whether or not AMD Epyc-powered hosts are best reserved for an isolated environment, or as the platform of all compute hosts for an entire environment depends on the needs of the customer. Some environments do not have cross-datacenter or cross-cluster failover, but only n-1 redundancy within a...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    You probably should've read the rest of my posts, as I'm definitely not suggesting that cross-vendor VM migration is as simple as flipping a switch. I only said that it can be planned for.
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    In addition to supply issues (for both vendors), there is a very real lack of demand for AMD CPUs outside of desktop market segments.
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    Any still running an overclocked i7 5820k? (haswell-E)

    5820k was always the garbage clocker of the family. I had one for awhile with a massively overkill custom loop and could never get more than 4.4GHz out of it, no matter the voltage. Eventually put that board and chip in a friend's rig and he's been running at 4.25GHz for the past couple years...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    https://dolphin-emu.org/docs/faq/ "With four cores, Dolphin has two cores for the main emulation threads, a third core for other tasks, and another core for the operating system and background tasks to run without taking resources from the emulator." 4 threads, then. That puts most CPUs in the...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    Seems like Zen2 has largely caught up. Anandtech tests CPUs with Dolphin 5.0. https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2550?vs=2558 Ryzen 9 3700x: 259 seconds Core i9 9900k: 251 seconds Core i9 9900ks: 245 seconds The difference there is quite small at just 3-5.4%, and really just comes down...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    First of all, I didn't make any of those statements. What I have said is that there is an industry-standard for change management. Most enterprise I.T. departments do adhere to ITIL/ITSM standards. I don't know what you do in your environment, that's up to you. It is funny that you want to...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    If you're creating an outage every time there is a new security patch related to side channel attacks your systems are down almost every day. It's not just microcode updates, there's other firmware updates, hypervisor updates, O.S. updates, and a litany of application and plug-in updates...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    This is a strawman. The only person that suggested "taking systems down every other week for patching" is you. I described our maintenance process in a general manner previously, it most certainly doesn't involve taking systems down every 2 weeks. Your description also doesn't take into...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    What do you do you for a living? Your assessment appears to be spoken from a place of ignorance to the realities of daily operations of an I.T. department, let alone ITIL standards. If you think that mission-critical systems can be brought offline at a moment's notice every time a new patch is...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    On the original subject matter: I know Charlie Demerjian both personally and professionally. He's very knowledgeable about this industry and has good sources for the most part, but he does have a tendency to predict doom and gloom, particularly for Intel and Nvidia. Intel just announced...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    First of all, I'm not bragging, only stating that my job includes duties which grant me ample opportunity to engage in the application of security best practices, primarily at a systems level, though also at the network level from time to time. Second, your assertions are ludicrous...
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    "Intel in jeopardy" from insiders. Much much worse than what they tell.

    Oracle Database servers LOVE to just "be restarted whenever" too
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