Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling

cross-posted from: 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!

snaptastic,

Not really the point of the article, but what do cpus like this mean for the hackintosh scene after Apple switching to their own arm chips?

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  • loki,

    You’d need to get a GPU with drivers for ARM macOS.

    I don’t really know much about this topic but didn’t asahi linux reverse engineer them already?

    rosenzweig.io/…/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.ht…

    BarryZuckerkorn,

    That’s a driver for Apple hardware running in a non-Apple OS. That’s different from tricking an Apple OS into running non-Apple hardware.

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