Intel NUC has 24 Cores.
16 Cores for consistency and 8 Cores for efficiency.
What a overcook?
Power consumption is 750 Watts and Temperature of 96 Centigrade.
With Cooler setup OFF one can boil water on top of this box.
The cooler box costs more than the motherboard, I guess.
There are lot of untested coolers which have to fit in with smaller form factor.
In other words the metal box that hold it together.
This advice is to Intel, AMD and especially to mainland Chinese Manufacturers.
I come from the Linux background and Resource Management is the CORE to Linux Philosophy.
One does not need to put all the eggs in one basket.
It is absurd.
If I am designing a motherboard, my layout is simple and specific.
I won't put all the Cores in One Place to avoid overheating and fire hazards.
In other words I would not stack them one on top of a another.
They together heat up the system to boiling point and once it reaches this boiling point, one needs a Water Cooler.
My maximum is 4 Cores placed in four corners of the motherboard, so the heat generated is evenly distributed.
I would use 4 smaller cooling units or fans that switches on and off in a sequential order so that air flow in one direction, sideways and upwards (it cannot flow downward).
I am using my simple physics here not advanced computer technology.
More power does not mean better performance.
The efficiency of an average car is 40% and 60% is wasted as inertia.
I think a computer should be able to better this 40% barrier better.
It is not.
Two Cores are enough for me.
Basic Core is for the functionality of the motherboard where system components are activated in idle mode with throttling up to the need (for example power game) of the individual applications.
The second core is for the user designed overload or hyperfunctionality.
An average computer user can play one game at a time and that functionality should be dedicated to his or her requirements where threads can be used, reused as desired depending on the user.
There is another utility in Linux called swap space where pages can be loaded and off loaded.
I think this requirements is waning off due to modern graphic cards.
But in my case, I use twice the capacity of the RAM by default for SWAP partition.
Ultimately everything is RUN on the RAM.
If the RAM is as low as 4GB, the functionality dips.
DDR 5 is not time tested and won't work on 4 slots at present without change in BIOS.
In anyway it is a waste of money at this point of time.
I won't waste time on Graphic Cards except saying that, it is the one that heats up and eventually burn out, if it's speed is not finely tuned with the CPU.
Our brain can detect only 36 fps and anything bigger is interpreted as movement.
Our physiology is primitive and very limited and out of millions of colour shades in computer video we can barely distinguish 256 colour shades.
What I do with the two extra CORES.
Simple.
I will use them for Server Function in transferring DATA out to the Internet and Cloud.
They do not work effectively, to help the Graphic Card blow outs.
That is the gamers ultimate desire.
So spending money on fancy stuff may become counter productive.
Best option is to wait till the market settles to new norms.
One need not burn one's computer by wrong configuration.
One should leave the Linux distribution to do it's own homework and choose a Linux distribution dedicated for gaming.
Linus Torvalds should do some pioneering work on this, so that the user can enjoy the gaming experience.
The gamers instead of fiddling with the computer, should give his or her feedback to the game developers (the games they wish to play and where upgrading and refinement are needed).
I am too old to play versatile games but Bridge is my basic game and Water Sort is my recent Discovery.
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
My Design of a Computer Circuit Board
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