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Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://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!

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[–] loki@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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?

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/first-conformant-m1-gpu-driver.html

[–] BarryZuckerkorn@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

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.