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Re:Factorio 1.1 is getting close by leetcrew on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:38PM (#25087806)
maybe I'm taking this post too seriously, but I thought the consensus was that factorio is mostly bottlenecked on memory bandwidth?
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Re:Factorio 1.1 is getting close by Dylan16807 on Friday November 13, 2020 @04:46PM (#25087875)
In that case still threadripper for more memory channels, but specifically a low-core version?

But in that case you can do even better than building your own. The OEM-only WX line has 8-channel memory, and the cheapest one is a reasonable 12 cores.

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Re:Factorio 1.1 is getting close by leetcrew on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:17PM (#25088183)
good point! kind of absurd, but then again I'm the type of person to buy a 9700k and overclock it to 5GHz just to get more frames in csgo.
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