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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I suspect the actual PC used is at least fairly powerful though. Like someone else said it's likely using ECC as its mission critial, so chances are it also has other expensive server parts inside. Not all powerful computers actually look like anything fancy at all. This post reminds me of things like the watercooling subreddit and the amount of effort and money they put into things like aesthetics, that don't actually improve performance at all. Even though the original point of watercooling was performance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

The most recent info I can find (2020) is that he's using a Threadripper. I daresay he might have upgraded it by now, but it should give an idea what he goes after. There are a few links from reputable sources around that time, here's one.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/24/linus_torvalds_adopts_amd_threadripper/

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When i was still into building computers, i really liked elaborate watercooled builds. But the whole maintenance and the little gain wasn't even worth it for me. I don't wanna know how much an average watercooled pc is suffering

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What kind of maintenance were you doing? Building the things is turning out to be a pain for me, but actual maintenance shouldn't be much more than for a regular PC. You still have to dust a regular PC after all. You do occasionally have to change fluid, but shouldn't need doing more than every 4 years or so if you use something like DP Ultra or car coolant.