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[Weaver]

[Alex Atkin UK]

[Weaver]

[Alex Atkin UK]

Well that was the 5950X, basically the fastest desktop AMD.  Problem is GPUs are so expensive right now they can really crank up the price, Intel 12700K is probably the best value at the moment.

[Weaver]

No GPUs at all, compiling code only. Unless GDC ie GCC for D and LDC2 ie LLVM can exploit a GPU?

[Weaver]

[burakkucat]

[Chrysalis]

[Weaver]

[Ronski]

How much ram and storage would it need?

[Ronski]

Here's an example I knocked up https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/Ron-ski/saved/TT4RK8

Or if you really wanted an air cooler then there is the Noctua NH-D15 for a similar price, but the Artic Liquid Cooler II 360 is the better option, and its sealed for life.

[meritez]

Does it need to run Windows?

[Ronski]

[Alex Atkin UK]

The Intel Alder Lake platform has nice potential, but because of the big/small architecture I consider it too early, it has scheduling issues on windows, it has issues with denuvo DRM, and its unknown how well it works on Linux and BSD currently, but I expect not optimal until new schedulers are made.  Its big cores do win on performance per core though vs AMD 5000 series.

Seems its still early on Linux too https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.16-Lands-ADL-ITMT-Fix
Though to be fair, I think most of the issues are lower performance than on Windows, which is not exactly the end of the world in the short-term.  But for compiling I believe AMD wins on performance anyway, its single-core where Intel is again on top.

That said, I've not tested the 5950X on Linux as I enabled TPM + Secure Boot for Windows 11 which breaks loading the proprietary NVIDIA driver, plus my GPU being a 3080 I doubt its properly supported in the open-source drivers so not even bothered trying.  Its my gaming rig, no real reason to put Linux on it.

[Alex Atkin UK]

A useful site for a comparison of CPU's https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-9-5950X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-5900X/3862vs3870

That site has a very poor reputation in the PC building community as being not at all a good comparison site.  I always use passmark which is not foolproof (no benchmarks are) but a better guideline IMO.

You can't really beat finding some benchmarks of people doing exactly what you intend to use it for.  Does this help perhaps? https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/build-gcc&search