Your personal experience didn't make my CPU cost $2,000. Although Intel does a regrettable amount of market separation - it isn't quite that bad.
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:18 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/02/2017 01:43 AM, Joshua Lee wrote: > >> What do you mean by "iffy"? My $200 x99 board has seperate IOMMU groups >> per-device, and a i7 5820k/6800k or, if you want it cheaper, an E5-1620v3 >> or 1620v4, can do ACS and sane IOMMU groups with it for under $600 also, >> without needing to get a used processor... >> > Personal experience - I have never seen a reasonably priced intel system > that did it properly, whereas even AMD's "desktop" CPU's and chipsets have > it. > > I don't buy or recommend intel's stuff for exotic uses because I have been > burned too many times by their artificial market separation efforts, I also > do not like the fact that their newer products aren't owner controlled for > a variety of reasons (although now you can say the same about AMD as well) > which again isn't good for fringe uses as there is no ability to fix things > that the board vendor refuses to. > > There isn't anything wrong with buying a used processor, and $150 gets you > a 6386SE with 16 cores. >
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