Is this possible?

[rikona]

Hello Mark,

Monday, October 3, 2016, 11:51:44 AM, Mark wrote:

> I don't recall the MB in that machine off the top of my head, and I'm at
> work right now, but I'll dig it up and email you directly if you like. I do
> know mine is 64GB RAM, expandable to 128GB and UEFI.  I have a mix of HDD
> and SSD drives in that server as well.

> I don't have all the specs,but that's a start.  I'll email you the rest
> once I get home this afternoon.

Thanks very much...

> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:44 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

>> Hello Mark,
>>
>> Monday, October 3, 2016, 8:02:22 AM, Mark wrote:
>>
>> > Actually, the FX9590 8-core series is well faster than any Intel
>> > chipset and I've run Fedora 23/24 on it for quite a while now
>> > without a single issue. (Granted it isn't Ubuntu, but it /is/
>> > Linux.)
>>
>> What MB are you using? 32Gb mem? Chip set? Large disk/UEFI? These last
>> 3 seem to be the source of many current problems.
>>
>> > FWIW, I've not bothered with Intel chips for several years now and
>> > never had a single issue with them running any version of linux that
>> > I use regularly. Mostly RHEL/Fedora and Gentoo/Arch.
>>
>> I've seen a couple of Arch sites that have been quite good and
>> informative. I'm not a computer guy, though, so a bit hesitant to go
>> that route...
>>
>> > While I don't completely disagree with Liam's Intel comment, I find
>> > AMD's performance better than stock Intel setups more often than
>> > not.
>>
>> I've been using AMD for several years with little/no problems. Is my
>> parallel processing approach likely to be helpful, given how I use the
>> box? I'd appreciate your opinion...
>>
>> > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:35 AM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>> >> Hello Liam,
>> >>
>> >> Monday, October 3, 2016, 4:43:07 AM, Liam wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On 3 October 2016 at 06:57, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> >> >> AMD 4or6 core processor [have a 6 core]
>> >>
>> >> > Why?
>> >>
>> >> > Apart from at the very low end, Intel is faster than AMD and has
>> >> > been since the Core 2 Duo range.
>> >>
>> >> My hope is to do things in parallel. I work with a fair amount of
>> >> data, and a large data run may take 12 hours. Sometimes I can split
>> >> that and run it as multiple processes. While that is running, I may
>> >> have multiple browsers, each with perhaps 50 or more tabs open. This
>> >> load makes my current box unusably slow, swap is maxed out, and
>> >> something very often crashes - I may lose several days of work. And
>> >> there's email, editing of docs, making diagrams, etc, etc. Perhaps
>> >> Intel can do one 12 hour job in 4 hours, but I still have lots going
>> >> on during that 4 hours.
>> >>
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>> >>  rikona
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