You can buy a mini pc for less than $550. For $200 on Amazon you can get an N97 based box with 12 GB RAM and 4 cores running at 3 GHz and a 500 GB SATA SSD. That’s got to be as fast as their current build systems and supports the required instructions.

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officeplant 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Those single memory channel shitboxes aren't even fast enough to be usable during big windows updates let alone used in production.

	▲	wtallis 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		One channel of DDR5-4800 actually competes pretty well against four channels of DDR3-1333 spread across two chiplets, which was the best Opteron configuration old enough to not have SSE4.1.
	▲	kasabali 21 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		not to even mention the "cooling" solutions they have

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1oooqooq 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

if you don't understand bandwidths and how long componenets can run at the 80pctile before failure, you're out of your element in this discussion.