asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if yer ~leasing~ a box, will get what the people have, not what you want. even in that ukr thing diana_coman found that supposedly opterons. they'll be with ipmi etc. this is inevitable.

asciilifeform: aite. would be a shame to lose opterons on acct of skimping 5 $ of cab tho.

asciilifeform: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-10-08#1942320 << if they're un-fritzchipped (i.e. pre-2014) opterons, and sans-ipmi, i'ma be impressed. but even any kinda opteron offer -- rare nowadays .

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a calculable function. 4 'heavy' (32cpu opterons) added up to just 5kg short of the max permitted 'overweight'. anything lighter (e.g. rk plant) poses no pain from mass pov. but the suitcases i (specifically) bought for expeditions, are in fact of max permitted phys. dimensions. (w/ 2 u in ea. + paddings and fixators.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i expect ~99.99... of ye olde golden age opterons have been melted down by nao, just like bolix etc

asciilifeform let it go on 2 diff opterons and 2 intels

asciilifeform: also so happens also that the most recent piece of iron in the torture room , excluding FG, is from '09. ( the opterons in the box i'm sitting on nao. )

asciilifeform: (if its for opterons, fughet it, hard enuff to get ~here~)

asciilifeform: (inside cabinet with multiple red-hot opterons etc)

asciilifeform: the 'here is what we have' of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-02#1779933 is fulfilled by what mircea_popescu termed 'the random garbage in the log' (in fact a complete actionable description of asciilifeform's inventory.) the 'what we will EVER want to get' , and asciilifeform is multiply on record re subj, is more of exactly same , 63xx/61xx opterons , from same surplus contacts where asciilifeform previously obtained the 3. ☝︎

asciilifeform: btw laplinker , recent ( 2013? 14? and after..? ) amd opterons suffer from similar problem : http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552690 ☝︎

asciilifeform: in other noose, turned up that the pilot opterons in asciilifeform's torture room have a disappointing onboard raid that supports only sata2 (3Gb/s). upgrading'em with sata3 raidtrons (6Gb/s)

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-17#1740119 << similar here, with opterons. but they have the drawbacks already discussed. ( power hungry, run hot, not obtainable in arbitrary qty given as no longer made ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: you also running opterons, BingoBoingo ?

asciilifeform: y'know them opterons dun actually ~pull~ those 700w here on my desk, mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: opterons!

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: opterons too

asciilifeform: this is like the opterons thread all over again.

asciilifeform: a number of other opterons also.

asciilifeform: now i've thought about having a mobo for ~classic~ opterons made. but this would easily go 10,000 $ a piece in small qty. and needs docs that i dun have.

asciilifeform: incidentally, if it turns out that mircea_popescu had in fact buried 10,001 opterons somewhere in the desert, now'd be the time to dig'em up. and profit margin will be very respectable.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-18#1628916 << my opterons don't have a throttled clock, physically ☝︎

asciilifeform: ('these' being my opterons or mircea_popescu's phenoms)

asciilifeform: briefly returning to the opterons, unfortunately they are quite useless alone, they must be stockpiled with ~period mb~

asciilifeform: in mostly unrelated news, i finally got a new pair of opterons.

asciilifeform: also opterons run hot.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not all opterons are created equal

asciilifeform: $maxint opterons