asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: intel and amd both have 'cache-as-ram mode', find it.

asciilifeform: e.g. an 'amd opteron' wouldn't cost any less than what we pay for it here, wherever else on the planet you might go

asciilifeform even now running amd hardware ('tyan' circa 2007) largely because amd mobos with ecc support and multiple pcie-16 slots have vanished into some mysterious black hole. ☟︎

asciilifeform: everyone's on amd << thought it was just me.

asciilifeform: intel is arm of usg. amd - produces clones at the crown's pleasure (see agreement with intel)

asciilifeform: very telling detail - neither intel nor amd publish microcode documentation. (intel's microcode loader is known only from the leaked ami src, afaik. amd's is public. intel crypts their patches, amd - no. both release opaque binary blobs for microcode, no docs.)

asciilifeform blows dust of volumes of intel & amd cpu manual

asciilifeform: decimation: for some years, there were fpga on the market that fit into an intel or amd cpu socket

asciilifeform: or rather, 'amd socket f'

asciilifeform: the 1kg and similar nice thermal hedgehogs unfortunately won't work here (i run dual-socket boards, 'amd type f', there is just enough room for ordinary one)