The mainboard we need, but not the one we deserve
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Nathaniel Baker
William Fisher
Jayden Cook
PCIe 4.0
CAPI 2.0
up to 1 TiB RAM per socket
POWER9 Sforza scale-out CPU
fully open source firmware:
git.raptorcs.com
Joshua Hall
CPUs go up to 22 cores, with SMT4 (four threads per core) for a max total of 176 threads.
Tyler Myers
Low core count chips (4 and 8 core) get double the usual 5 MiB of L3 cache per core.
Parker Powell
Zachary Adams
No silly RGB, just pure POWER
Carter Carter
You can get it without the proprietary SAS controller if you so desire
Brayden Morales
Or with it, since it's isolated with IOMMU groups, there isn't a big risk.
Besides, you are encrypting your hard drives anyway, right?
William Brooks
So is Power9 backwards compatible with most or all instructions of the G4/G5 chips that Apple used to use before 2006? I'm interested in MacOS 9 and OS X Tiger emulation through QEMU. If the hardware is compatible I would be able to just use kernel VM and get insane performance, right? This really arouses my almonds.