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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by jagger27 on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:19PM (#26916284)
I’ve been doing big C++ builds (think gcc, LLVM-sized projects) on my Ryzen 9 5950X and I wouldn’t have it any other way. This thing saves me so much time every day. It’s so nice not to have to do remote builds to get a quick prototype.

The best part is that it was a drop in replacement for my 2700X. I already had a great Noctua air cooler so I was all set.

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Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model by pdimitar on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:01AM (#26923971)
Ah, Ryzen 5000 and Threadripper 3000 series are absolute beasts, no doubt about it.

I want to work with Rust more and when I get to that point I'll likely start gathering money for a TR Pro but until then, and me mostly working with dynamical languages, even old-ish i7 CPUs are more than adequate.

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