Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591

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!

grue,

It’s a shame that motherboard doesn’t have enough RAM channels.

ares35,
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an hour for updates? took about 15 minutes, including downloading (on dsl) on a brand new $230 11th gen i3 laptop yesterday.. wu and store (where there was several dozen more 'updates')

magikmw,

I have no experience with Windows for ARM, but what I know of Windows update tells me the patch environment for that platform haven’t gotten up from before rollup era and a new image needed to process hundreds of updates. Especially if it was and “old” image.

lud,

It’s also possible that the update was a bigger feature update and those usually take longer, not 1 hour though.

Sparrow_1029,
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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,

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

Sparrow_1029,
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Ahh I missed that!

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

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