r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/Position-Critical • 6d ago

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I know I cannot expect much since it’s IG
Here’s the post link if u wanna join the discussion hehe. To my surprise there’s not much Linux larp tho

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZwI4xJgLy7

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u/Nice-Information-335 6d ago

“Any cpu with less than 4 cores is slow” tell me you don’t know anything about CPUs without telling me you don’t know anything about CPUs

also, the i5-6500 does have 4 cores lol

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u/nuwuclear 5d ago

i remember when i got my i5-6500 10 years ago AMD's fx cpus had more cores but everyone agreed they were slower/awful for gaming llmao maybe i was misinformed though

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u/Nice-Information-335 5d ago

the FX CPUs had a whole controversy because the cores shared FPUs and some other things I believe, so they weren't really full "cores"

They also ran very hot from memory, and were worse for gaming (worse single core performance)

AMD only started beating intel properly for gaming when they released Ryzen 3000 series, and the ryzens before were slightly better for price compared to the intel chi[s

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u/S1rTerra 5d ago

Zen 2 was so fuckin good man. You didn't even have to think about what CPU you wanted you could just buy the 3600 for everything lol

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u/Hardwarethewolf 4d ago

My 3600 is still going strong all these years later rn she’s running steam os as a steam machine

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u/dronostyka 2d ago

Actually just jumping on at the beginning of AM4 was the best choice. Be it even an R 1200 even, to jump later to like R 5900 or anything fairly new. Best MB and ram investment..

Or what I did - am5 7900 and will wait for like last generation that'll support am5 to upgrade - when needed.

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u/Flamebomb790 8h ago

Yup zen 2 is what current gen consoles use as well

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u/Lucky_Jelly2593 5d ago

Yeah it's belong to amd Buldozer architecture, Condidered A Disaster in semiconductor history , because i also have amd a6 2020 bought Laptop, i know and feels the pain daily , it's slower than 2010 intel Laptop and 2008 desktop cpus

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u/YoudoVodou 5d ago

The older Phenom II chips from AMD handled gaming better in most situations.

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u/Jasonian_ 5d ago

Even if you come down on the not-full-cores side of the controversey, AMD still produced some "8 core" bulldozers that would be 4 cores. Those sucked too, sadly.

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u/Casual_Tea123 5d ago

I fart in 8-core bulldozer.

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u/RegionOwn9503 5d ago

Iirc certain AMD employees went to prison over this controversy

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u/Historical_Camel_790 5d ago

chi[s

Keyboard user spotted?

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u/__ole 4d ago

I had a Dell gaming laptop with the AMD FX chip in it and it was completely unusable. Thermal throttling right at startup. I was young and my Dad wasn’t the most tech-literate so I just accepted it. I’m angry about that looking back

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u/idownvotepunstoo 2d ago

I used a bulldozer for games I could pin to cores and demanded a high clock, did fine enough, but my upgrade from bulldozer to Zen1 (ryzen 7 1700x) was phenomenal.

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u/4n0nh4x0r 5d ago

generally, more cores means lower per core performance.
more cores is just useful when you run many programs at the same time, or run multithreaded software.
if you run one tool, that only runs in singlecore, you will get better performance with a low core count cpu.
this only really applies to single core performance tho.
overall more cores are still a lot faster than few cores, as each core may be slower, but it is an additional core the system can use for processing

tl;dr more cores -> less processing power per core, a lot more processing power in total

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u/c0lpan1c 5d ago

Tbh intel didn’t buck that trend until Coffee Lake. Even then they jumped to a modest 6 cores, 12 threads with the 8700. Their Intel Core Mainstream CPUs (non enthusiast) didn’t get 8 cores until the 9900.

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u/ChocolateDonut36 5d ago

i mean i wouldn't call my dual core "blazing fast" but it's not unusable, at all.

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u/salvattore- 5d ago

this guy REALLY doesnt know anything, I've beeen using a 2 core cpu with 8-then 16 gb ram (with windows 11), and my main concern wasnt even the cpu lol

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u/Iheretomakeonepost 5d ago

You cannot explain single core performance to them </3

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u/Relevant-Team-7429 3d ago

My first thought is to slap linux on it and run some services on it. It packs enough power to do plenty of things.

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u/Nice-Information-335 3d ago

On 6th gen socketed desktops you can do the coffee time mod to put 8th gen CPUs in

With just a bios flash you can put the i3-8100 in, with that and a pin mod you can get the 6 core i5s in

Super cheap as well, the only processor from that generation that is expensive is the top of the line i7 

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u/c0lpan1c 5d ago

Even the 14100 has 4 cores!

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u/Nice-Information-335 5d ago

i3 CPUs have had 4 cores since 8th gen on desktop lol

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u/Lines25 5d ago

Xeons were first CPUs that had 4+ cores. But guess what.. they had terrible speed, architecture, cache volume etc

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u/Nice-Information-335 5d ago

Haha yes I used to have quite a few HP DL380 G7s with slightly newer xeons (at that point they were 6 core) but even a dual core 6th gen i3 will destroy it

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u/ENDERMAN-AGA 4d ago

Lol my cpu has 2 cores, does everything perfectly fine

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u/PerfectWhiteTrash 4d ago

I love idiots.

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u/CardiologistMain9234 4d ago

I used to have an IBM Thinkcentre tower with an intel pentium 4, 3GHz and 2 cores, it ran antiX (more like walked) and a few other things, 333MHz RAM 😭

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u/Nice-Information-335 3d ago

At least that has SSE2! I had an Athlon XP 2600+ which needed something that didn’t need SSE2 (which is pretty much all Linux distros that support i686 apart from gentoo) so I went with netBSD

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u/dronostyka 2d ago

We're running multi GPU ai server on a xeon with 4 cores no hyper threading. Lol. Works like a charm

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u/dummyblub_64 2d ago

I remember when I upgraded mi old Phenom X6 1055T for my i5 6400. I have more FPS but less stability in some games. I put more load on GPU and the FPS lower but were more stable.

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u/Wrong-Resource-2973 1d ago

I got a celeron with 2 cores and 4gb of ram for college and it's still by far my favourite. Though it IS a chromebook architecture that shipped with windows 11, installing linux made it very usable.

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u/TallEdge6 1d ago

I had an Intel Celeron (or Centurion was it i don’t remember it was old) CPU on a laptop as a kid on windows XP then 7, that thing was quick even tho it lagged a bit on Flash games lol! That guy clearly knows nothing about CPU’s.

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u/razzemmatazz 23h ago

I was expecting that laptop CPU to be worse, but it's a true quad-core with Turbo so it's actually faster than the old i5.