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• Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  ask if it can it play crysis!

• pxmonkee - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Asking if something can play Crysis is the modern "Yeah. but how many FPS does it get in Quake 3?"

• Drumsticks - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  That's so last year. The 2017 version is "Can it play Crysis with Chrome open at the same time??"

• Glock24 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  The question should be: can it play Crysis... in software rendering?

• Alexvrb - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  I for one can think of no better use for a $10K server.

• orderofmag - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  It would be great if times were also posted in UT or GMT

• murak01 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Yes, from Sweden here.

• Exodite - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  UTC4Lyfe!!one!
  
  Seriously though, while it's not a huge effort to look up the time differential anything that caters to even a remotely wide audience should be presented in UTC.
  
  Everyone can reasonably be expected to know their local offset by heart after all.

• extide - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Honestly it takes very little javascript to have the times always show local time no matter wherever you are. That is what they should do.

• plopke - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Sometimes i wonder if Ian Cutress is like a ping pong ball across a world map.

• EasyListening - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  AMD up 7.8%. INTC down 1.5%. Long AMD.

• NBM77 - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  And people will probably bench those with games...

• Makaveli - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Who is gonna spend the money on server hardware to bench games on them?
  
  Don't be a CS GO bro gamer with a one track mind. The use case for these is not for gaming its for people that actually do work and generate income.

• Threska - Monday, June 26, 2017 - link

  I could see a GAME DEVELOPER using machines like that, with the odd, "got plenty of money and time" gamer thrown in.

• davegraham - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  ah shoot. I was supposed to be there but....enjoy the time!!

• Morawka - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  WOOHOO Lets go AMD, Undercut Intel BIG TIME to remind them what competition feels like!

• satai - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  Pretty curious about thecvooler support. The socket looks enormous...

• satai - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  s/about thecvooler/about the cooler/
  
  I am terribly sorry.

• Gothmoth - Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - link

  tomshardware:
  
  AMD provided some basic benchmarks, seen in the slides above, that compare its processors to the nearest Intel comparables. The price and performance breakdown chart is perhaps the most interesting, as it indicates much higher performance (as measured by SPECint_rate_base2006), at every price point. It bears mentioning that Intel publicly posts its SPEC benchmark data, and AMD's endnotes indicates that it reduced the scores used for these calculations by 46%. AMD justified this adjustment because they feel the Intel C++ compiler provides an unfair advantage in the benchmark. There is a notable advantage to the compiler, but most predict it is in the 20% range, so AMD's adjustments appear aggressive. We should take these price and performance comparisons with the necessary skepticism and instead rely upon third-party data as it emerges
  
  mhm......

• Threska - Monday, June 26, 2017 - link

  While here any further details on encrypted virtualization?

• bluewaffles - Monday, November 20, 2017 - link

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