7nm AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU with 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Core Intel Xeon: $25K-50K)

Re:7nm AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU with 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Cor... by rolleiflex on Saturday June 22, 2019 @08:25AM (#20249230)

No, generally if you're doing the Hackintosh the modern way, you pick your components beforehand from those supported by Mac OS natively (which are excellent components you should already be picking regardless, with the exception of GPUs), and then the only thing you need is the SMC driver I mentioned. I didn't build this machine for Hackintosh, so I have a few drivers (4-5 I think? It tends to need fewer and fewer every OS X update), but that's it.

> Threadripper with many NVidia GPUs as well?

Yes, it works with Threadripper, but not with NVidia GPUs, but that's because regular Macs don't work with NVidia GPUs as well. My understanding is that it's a standoff between NVidia and Apple largely due to NVidia's poor behaviour the last time NVidia was included in Macbook Pros around 2012.

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Re:7nm AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU with 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Cor... by ComputerGuru on Saturday June 22, 2019 @02:33PM (#20251001)

> My understanding is that it's a standoff between NVidia and Apple largely due to NVidia's poor behaviour the last time NVidia was included in Macbook Pros around 2012.

Yes, I have one of those famed 15” rMBPs that many devs say “over my dead body” when you suggest upgrading to a newer model. Zero GPU complaints after the initial bugs were ironed out (and the bad batches replaced).

Note that AMD offered virtually no competition to nVidia in either the mobile or the workstation configurations (power or efficiency) up until at least the availability of the R9 Fury a couple of years ago.

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Re:7nm AMD EPYC “Rome” CPU with 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Cor... by cududa on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:17PM (#20251769)

A drunk coworker threw my (personal) bag with one of those in a lake. I despise my 2018 MBP.. I miss that thing so much

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