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MauryG5:
Excellent Classic, then tell us how you configure the new computer, with all the features and any additional cards you will put ...!

ClassicHasClass:
It's to become my new primary system. Most of the stuff in my dual-4 will get moved to it, and then the original dual-4 will become a spare. When my POWER6 serving Floodgap finally gets too long in the tooth and the POWER10 systems are out, if the dual-8 is still working well the dual-4 will be put back into service as my new frontfacing server (if the dual-8 craps out I'll just buy a POWER10 then).

MauryG5:
I get it. But which model of Power 9 have you decided to put in this new Talos? Yes Power 10 will be phenomenal but it is still far away, but I am waiting more for the new Power 9 which will in any case be a big step forward and will have a lot of power under the hood ...

ClassicHasClass:
Dual 8 core POWER9s (DD2.3), like I said.

MauryG5:
Sorry I have not seen the post where you wrote the type of CPU you are going to mount. I read long ago your article related to the discussion of X86 and Power, their constant comparison and you wrote at some point that Power competes with X86. I am not much with this statement because I know that by nature instead Power has always been superior as an X86 micorproccesore for a variety of reasons. There are too many people who are still very ignorant today and do not realize what is really out there, so I think we should have no problem reiterating this concept in my opinion. Days ago I came across an article where he talks that in all likelihood, Apple from 2021 will bring all the Mac eco system on ARM. Under the article there were obviously several comments and a guy made a comment related to the past that made me angry a lot. He expressed his doubt about this step and wrote that at the time Apple did well to make that step because X86 is far superior to Power PC while now not sure that according to him this step can give real advantages. At that point I replied saying: nice friend you see that X86 has never been and will never be far superior to Power put it on your head. Apple at the time only switched to Intel for commercial reasons, the possibility of running Windows natively and bragging that it was much faster than a normal PC and for the reason that Power heated too much on the portals and therefore it was not possible to mount them and since it has always been their main market on the Mac side, this obviously damaged them a lot. Alche 'replies with even more ignorance and arrogance, making absurd comparisons or Macs of 2005 now no longer updated as hardwere and increasingly in difficulty' obvious and with the increasing handicap of the universal code applied from that moment until end of his days and an Intel system that was increasingly optimized and updated! Obviously that way you see the best performance on X86 we are all so good! In the end I sent him to that country for excessive ignorance and not knowing how to look beyond his nose and I ended the conversation. All this to say how many people are too convinced today, just because one thing has more trade than another but that has never meant that it is the best just because it is more commercial. So I think every opportunity is good to say and point out to these beasts, that Power is another thing and that is above them!

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