Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Quote:
Andreas_Wolf wrote:
>> Power 9 is the wrong ISA to consider this for.
>First and foremost, it's the wrong microarchitecture for it. A CPU implementing Power ISA v3.0 and not requiring a fan might be possible.
I missed that. Hmm, Power 9 with "Optimized Frequency – Manage energy between threads and cores", eh?
That would make more sense,that or a fall back to something with a lower power draw from NXP's e5500 or e6500 cored products.
And I wouldn't even attempt to passively cooling anything above 65 watts.
And then there are the video card limitations.
I've seen a passively cooled Radeon HD 6750, but I can't locate one for sale.
I've also seen some passively cooled FirePro cards.
And newer cards? Well, there is a passively cooled RX 460.
The first card mentioned could be supported now.
The second option would depend on which gpu the card used.
And the last would require a new driver.
But for all of my preference for a Power 9 platform, this does appear easier to do with X64 hardware.
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