Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop | Jeff Geerling
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591

This is the fastest Arm desktop in the world, yes, even faster than the M2 Ultra Mac Pro. And today, I made it even faster.

I upgraded everything: Faster RAM, 128 core CPU, 40 series GPU, I did it all, and we’ll see how much we can obliterate the M2 Mac Pro.

As of today, I have this thing running 128 CPU cores at 2.8 GHz. I upgraded the RAM to 384 GB of DDR4 3200 ECC RAM, specifically six Samsung 64 GB sticks. I installed an Nvidia 4070 Ti.

It’s running both Ubuntu 22.04 Server and Windows 11 for Arm now. I even got Steam installed on Ubuntu, after so many commenters kindly pointed out Box86 and Box64 exist!

  • @Sparrow_1029English
    21•11 months ago

    I booted up that system and after waiting an hour or so for Windows Update to finish

    … 🙄

    Crazy workstation though – wish I had need for all that power so I could justify buying one to play with

    • @[email protected]English
      4•11 months ago

      To clarify, that was on the windows dev kit running snapdragon, not his beastly Ampere system.

      • @Sparrow_1029English
        2•11 months ago

        Ahh I missed that!

        Makes more sense then – that seemed a bit long for any update