Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
by gambiting on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:36AM
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Well, actually making games requires that much power. I work at a games studio, run an 8-core(16-thread) Xeon + 64GB of ram + 1TB SSD and everything I do daily is just sloooow. Running the game in debug mode uses up all my ram, compilation times are between 20-40 minutes for the whole project even when using distributed build systems, and that 1TB SSD is not helping that much if it's nearly full all the time. If we could have our workstations upgraded to something like 16-core Xeons + 256GB of ram it would be a godsend.
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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
by imaginenore on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:46AM
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Talk to your management. Your time wasted is definitely more expensive than 256GB of RAM (around $3K).
Show them the numbers, make it an easy decision for them.