Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
by jckahn on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:16PM
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This is extremely helpful, thank you! This is pretty much the sort of config I'd want (fast CPU and lots of RAM). I'm glad to hear you've had a good experience with this so far! :)
Re:AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks
by prewett on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:47PM
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Historically network and graphics drivers (and maybe sound?), and sleep mode were the things to check for Linux support. These days, all three major graphics manufacturers have Linux drivers, and I haven't heard any problems with networking for a long time. Sleep is probably still an issue... And most everything is already included for you (networking, sound, graphics) on the motherboard. So just check how good Linux support is for the motherboard you'd like to buy (and any PCI cards you'll add, if any).
It’s an i9-12900k on a Z690 motherboard (tons of these, I got a gigabyte model). I got a terabyte of nice NVME and 64GB of memory; made it out the door for about $1600 with a case, taxes, and everything. I didn’t buy a graphics card because I don’t need to drive anything other than some text editors and browser windows, and it’s really not a buyers market right now. I’ll probably pick up something in a year or so.
If you’ve never built a computer, highly recommend! It’s really not difficult, though can take time and it can be frustrating. Really rewarding when you boot it for the first time, though.