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'''ABSTRACT:''' In August of 2016, I pulled the trigger on a long-planned workstation build. That same month, Intel and NVIDIA dropped new product. Hot, salivation-provoking product: densely packed marvels bursting with FLOPS, rough dank beasts woven up from high-κ 16nm and 14nm strained-silicon FinFETs. Both companies, utterly dominant at their markets' high ends, announced pricing that shoved atom bombs up the ass of every computing enthusiast in the free world. | '''ABSTRACT:''' In August of 2016, I pulled the trigger on a long-planned workstation build. That same month, Intel and NVIDIA dropped new product. Hot, salivation-provoking product: densely packed marvels bursting with FLOPS, rough dank beasts woven up from high-κ 16nm and 14nm strained-silicon FinFETs. Both companies, utterly dominant at their markets' high ends, announced pricing that shoved atom bombs up the ass of every computing enthusiast in the free world. | ||
This is the rambling, poorly-edited, relentlessly technical story of that build. Also: epigraphs. You can skip to the [[# | This is the rambling, poorly-edited, relentlessly technical story of that build. Also: epigraphs. You can skip to the [[#Final_Bill_of_Materials|bill of materials]], if you just want specs. | ||
==Intro: 10 cores of garbage== | ==Intro: 10 cores of garbage== | ||