On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 19:19 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > AMD PSP is AMD's version of ME present in the new AMD stuff - one has > to > buy an older 2013 or before AMD x86 CPU to avoid it generally. > > Todays options for *new* owner controlled performance hardware is > POWER8 > and 9 - x86 is dead and those who claim otherwise have no idea what > they're talking about. > > Your options: > Low/Medium Performance - KCMA-D8 for $260 with $60 4386 CPU (plus > ram > cpu etc) just abut an FX-8310 - KCMA-D8/KGPE-D16 have libre owner > controlled firmware - it is circa 2011 hardware but it will run > qubes > 4.0. I have one and it works great and supports IOMMU-GFX so you can > play games in a VM via an attached graphics card. > > Ultra High Performance (brand new hotness and truly special) - The > TALOS > 2 POWER9 workstation which is 100% libre and owner controlled > including > not just the firmware but the hardware too - price is 2K (plus ram, > psu > case etc) which is a great deal for high performance > workstation/server > hardware (ironic that the closed source x86 crap costs more) - Note > that > you would not be able to run x86 windows apps in a windows VM without > a > significant performance penalty so you would need to be entirely > linux, > it also supports IOMMU-GFX so you can watch movies in a VM or play > some > of the few linux games that have source code available (to compile > for > POWER) > > POWER9 supports 8 SMP threads per core so it is great for > virtualization > even if one doesn't buy one of the 12+ core CPU's. > > You would have to compile qubes for POWER as there is no POWER port, > but > that can easily be done.
Do you have a Talos 2 already - raptorcs.com says you can preorder ...? Sincerely, Joh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1504693527.4218.48.camel%40graumannschaft.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
