My Xeon W-1270P processor and Gigabyte W480 Vision W motherboard
arrived from Hong Kong on 12/16.

32 Gigabytes of ECC memory arrived last week.

I ordered a CPU cooler today.

Soon I will purchase a power supply, HDD, and sound card. I can reuse
my video card and monitor (but I may consider new ones as well).

However, the big part of the job will be building the software
system, including the kernel. This will be done via cross compilation
and will be mostly automated. But I need to acquire the compile
parameters that are specific to this processor, especially the cache.

I can use a Gentoo live USB to get these parameters and then do
the cross compilation from my old system.

Yes, it's a lot of fucking work but the end result is a system
that is far better that any distro could provide.

Working off and on and here and there I expect to be finished by
the end of February 2025 (this is when a new kernel and glibc will
be released).

Then I will have Xeon W with 8/16 cores powered by GNU/Linux.

There can be no better system.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:16:46 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:

>
> I ordered a CPU cooler today.
>

Here is the cooler:

https://www.newegg.com/p/13C-004C-000A5

It may appear to be a flimsy cooler ($39.95) but my MB
will be located on a rack that will have more than sufficient
air flow with external fans.

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

On 12/18/24 11:16 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> There can be no better system.

It might not even work on Xeon.

On 12/18/24 3:22 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:16:46 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
>
>>
>> I ordered a CPU cooler today.
>>
>
> Here is the cooler:
>
> https://www.newegg.com/p/13C-004C-000A5
>
>
> It may appear to be a flimsy cooler ($39.95) but my MB
> will be located on a rack that will have more than sufficient
> air flow with external fans.
>
>
>
>
>

Oh, that place cries to have a tomcat ..

But the setup can get assaulted by elements other than presence of a
tomcat of course. Do you breathe? All that moisture deposits on various
surfaces on your electronic device whose surface temperatures are almost
always different from that of the room's, and the condensation right
away begins slowly ruining them.

I worked 10 years in a warehouse of a Chinese electronics company. I
know what I'm talking about. They didn't even dare placing a/c's in that
hot as Hell place during summer, cause they knew their parts would
gather condensation. So everybody had to work almost literally in Hell
so those expensive electronic parts (mostly belonging to computers)
would last long enough to get either used or sold. You've got no idea
how much salt my body got rid of in that 10 years. Think of in units of
tons.

They used their parts too because they'd later added a huge laptop
repair department to the place as well, yes inside the hot as Hell
warehouse section of those buildings.

Moisture is just one of the elements. There are more :)

On 2024-12-18, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
> My Xeon W-1270P processor and Gigabyte W480 Vision W motherboard
> arrived from Hong Kong on 12/16.
>
> 32 Gigabytes of ECC memory arrived last week.
>
> I ordered a CPU cooler today.
>
> Soon I will purchase a power supply, HDD, and sound card. I can reuse
> my video card and monitor (but I may consider new ones as well).
>
> However, the big part of the job will be building the software
> system, including the kernel. This will be done via cross compilation
> and will be mostly automated. But I need to acquire the compile
> parameters that are specific to this processor, especially the cache.
>
> I can use a Gentoo live USB to get these parameters and then do
> the cross compilation from my old system.
>
> Yes, it's a lot of fucking work but the end result is a system
> that is far better that any distro could provide.
>
> Working off and on and here and there I expect to be finished by
> the end of February 2025 (this is when a new kernel and glibc will
> be released).
>
> Then I will have Xeon W with 8/16 cores powered by GNU/Linux.
>
> There can be no better system.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

After reading a few of your nebulous, confusing, word salad posts I would
suggest you engage someone who actually has the skill to build this system of yours
because I am 100% confident that you will fuck it up and that just might be a very
expensive lesson.

--
pothead

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On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:39:02 -0000 (UTC), pothead wrote:

> After reading a few of your nebulous, confusing, word salad posts I
> would suggest you engage someone who actually has the skill to build
> this system of yours because I am 100% confident that you will fuck it
> up and that just might be a very expensive lesson.

One nice thing about software and computer hardware is it's relatively
hard to destroy it. Not like fucking up an engine build.