I just managed to grab a 5800X for $650 CAD this morning so i'm also jumping on the Zen 3 bandwagon.
That`s a fairly reasonable price considering the situation, congratulations! The 5800X is also a very solid processor, I was debating between the 5800X and 5900X personally since I knew firmware building could benefit from the extra cores. But pretty much nothing else that I do will. It came down to having the budget for it, so I went for it.
Based on your workflow totally understand.
I was tempted to go with the 5900X because the difference in MSRP isn't huge but most of my work won't benefit from the extra cores. Plus finding a 5900X in stock right now is difficult. I'm see alot more 5600X and 5800X in stock that quickly leave.
The same place I got the CPU was charging $800 CAD for it a week prior so I was watching their stock and pricing like a hawk the last couple days. It also helps the store is literally 5 mins walk from my place so no online ordering for me.
congrats are in order first !
jumping the curiosity bandwagon here - what OS do you run on the "beast" @RMerlin ?
I have a 5900X ordered since November 24th. Still nothing. Strangely enough it took me only 4 days to get an RTX 3080 in that same week. The market is a mess right now.
Great phrase. And congrats on your custom box. Nice specs!the human malware
Out of curiosity had you consider Google or Amazon cloud to compile?This will save me a LOT of time.
Out of curiosity had you consider Google or Amazon cloud to compile?
I don’t mean leasing a machine I mean buying cloud time.There's no way I could get anything faster than even my former i7 without spending thousands of dollars per month.
you can get 24cores cloud servers for as low as 32$/m - of course on some less known providers like https://datasoft.ws/ctcloud24core.phpThere's no way I could get anything faster than even my former i7 without spending thousands of dollars per month.
Signing up for server time. Back to the future.I don’t mean leasing a machine I mean buying cloud time.
Need multiple high IPC cores for the build process to be faster.I don’t mean leasing a machine I mean buying cloud time.
Dedicated vs shared. 24 shared cores especially at a cheap reseller generally means highly overallocated resources.you can get 24cores cloud servers for as low as 32$/m - of course on some less known providers like https://datasoft.ws/ctcloud24core.php
A good part of those results is from upgrading from 6 threads to 20 threads in my build VM. But the single thread performance also has a significant impact as seen by the RT-AC68U build time which dropped by roughly 25%.
Even on a VM - wonder how it would be on metal, probably even faster
have you looked at ccache? I using this for both host cc and the cross-build, and this does help in my environment
I'm doing multi-thread builds - I'm based on openwrt these days for a side-project on MIPS... and this keeps things running while threads are doing more time intense things like C++ and cmake, which take forever relative to c code...
platform.mak:export PARALLEL_BUILD := -j$(shell grep -c '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo)
Very punny.That can't be parallized
I hope the situation in silicon isn't like the one faced by anyone trying to buy ammunition (law enforcement, competitive target shooters, etc.). Remember toilet paper last April? That's been the ammunition market for 9 months now. Hopefully silicon won't be that scarce for the next year.and i refuse to buy from a scalper! So i guess another couple of month waiting...
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