Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop | Jeff Geerling
www.jeffgeerling.com

cross-posted from: https://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!

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    11 months ago

    They reversed the M1 GPU driver to an impressive amount, but Hackintoshes won’t have Apple GPUs. In fact, I don’t think the server CPUs this article is referring to even come with any hardware acceleration at all, they’re server CPUs and servers generally use dedicated GPU cards for any real workload.

    To use these, you’ll need to plug in a GPU. Without drivers there should be some kind of fallback driver, but it’s slow and unusable. To use such a plug-in GPU, you’ll need manufacturer (or open source) drivers for macOS.