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Memory Bandwidth Per Core and Per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/12

I wonder if this has changed over the last few years since this got published early 2023: [Wayback/Archive] Memory Bandwidth Per Core and Per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

While we are looking at bandwidth per core, the performance per core has increased by 2.5-3x over the past decade.

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On-line PC part compatibility checker: Pick parts

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23

If I ever want to build a PC again, this site helps me assemble the parts and check their compatibility: [Wayback/Archive] Pick parts. Build your PC. Compare and share. – PCPartPicker

Of course it is not a 100% coverage or guarantee, but it will you a lot of hints when on-line configuring a system.

This is the system a friend was configuring and I was quite positively surprised:

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Posted in CPU, Hardware, HDD, M.2/NGFF, Mainboards, Memory, PC PSU, PCIe/PCI-e/PCI Express, Power User, PSU, SAS/SATA, SCSI, SSD, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

Still a great way to stress test CPUs: About Intel Burn Test…

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/16

IntelBurnTest is a wrapper around the [Wayback] Intel Linpack benchmark ([Wayback] Windows download) and still a great way to test CPUs.

From [Wayback/Archive.is] reddit – About Intel Burn Test… : overclocking:

“Pinhedd: “Both IBT and Prime95 are similar in that they stress floating point arithmetic and memory subsystems. They are different in that IBT uses Linpack (solving linear equations) while Prime95 calculates Mersene Primes.
IBT is generally regarded as being far more aggressive in the short term, which makes it great for testing ultimate stability. IBT will easily drive load temps up to 20 degrees higher than Prime95, this is well known and is a defining feature of the program.
Unfortunately, the Linpack benchmark was designed for supercomputers (hence the floating point part, for modeling continuous phenomenon) so it really pushes desktops to the limit, far beyond what any application will do. This means that IBT may fail on commercial CPUs that are running at stock settings simply because Intel doesn’t test them to that extent.

Too bad it is not open source and steadily at version 2.54, but then again, there is so little to maintain when the underlying tests basically do not change.

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