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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by slowmirai on Friday August 05, 2016 @04:33PM (#12235562)
I'm having trouble finding actively cooled ARM boards that are clocked higher than 2Ghz. I don't even care about the fact that I might need to buy multiple boards and form a cluster but for a cluster of 8 rasperry pi 3 including sd cards, network equipment, etc is more expensive and still far slower than of some cheap AMD CPU like the fx8300 with 8GB RAM, a 320GB hdd, psu and case which can be had for less than $300.
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Re:A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out o... by aidenn0 on Friday August 05, 2016 @10:41PM (#12236782)
There are some POWER boards that offer much better single-package performance vs. ARM, but they are also much more expensive than an x86. In the mid-to-high-end laptop/desktop business it's hard to beat the economies of scale that x86 has.
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