Technology @lemmy.world schizoidman @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

www.tomshardware.com Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

They're not show-stoppers compared to Western tech, but they could still be good workstations.

Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17489781

Technology @lemmy.ml schizoidman @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler

www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/motherboards/motherboards-and-systems-with-chinas-loongson-cpus-now-shipping-to-us-customers-options-start-from-dollar373-for-a-dtx-board-with-processor-and-cooler

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No thanks
- Why not? Those CPUs got perfect scores on Red Star OS.
  
  Party approved!
  
  I would buy it. No US fed backdoors, just Chinese ones, and I'm not in China.
  
  Does it run Linux?
This is not a good deal. First of all I highly doubt this mobo and CPU will be Windows 11 compatible so you're out of luck there. For $373 you can find an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and mobo combo deal that will vastly outperform this Chinese CPU. Also AMD's AM5 platform is DDR5 while this Chinese CPU and mobo combo is DDR4. $373 is a ridiculously non competitive price.
- Who the fuck uses Windows 11?!
  
  Me 😢
  
  I have a critical work app that will not run in wine or with proton.
  
  I’ve even contacted the devs and they suggested trying to run the android version on Linux, but it doesn’t work either.
  
  The majority of businesses and a lot of consumers. 46% of steam users. Few years it'll be the majority.
  
  I do, I've been trying to get off it and onto Bazzite but I tried to do a test run by installing it on my laptop before my pc and the boot loader won't pick up the usb 😔
  
  I don't feel comfortable doing it on my pc without first seeing it work, so it seems I'm stuck on windows
- No Intel Management Engine though.
  
  Is that a bad thing though?
- Give us some links for combo of motherboard, CPU and fan. I assume it needs a fan.
  
  Here:
  
  https://www.amazon.com/AMD-RyzenTM-6-Core-Mortar-Motherboard/dp/B0C1P856RB/
  
  https://www.amazon.com/PCCOOLER-Paladin-Nickel-Plated-Anti-oxidant-Protective/dp/B0CN66YDXT/
  
  CPU + Mobo combo plus a CPU cooler which adds up to about $381.40 which is $8 more than Chinese CPU + mobo combo. I think that's close enough to be within the margin of price fluctuations. That AM5 mobo comes with four memory slots, PCIe 4.0, USB 3.2 and Wifi 6E. Those features may be worth extra $8 for some.
Might be helpful to have this hardware if you want to develop malware targeting systems in China.
A few years from now we may be seeing US tariffs on these just like EVs today.

China is developing fast and it took US trade war seriously.
No fuckin thanks
- So you want to continue using the American spyware. I'd give the Chinese spyware a try, to even the ground.
  
  Nah.
Why would anyone want this? Maybe they are forcing Chinese nationals to buy them and inflate their popularity as a product for Papa CCP.
- They probably sell them dirt cheap domestically, no need for coercion
- Could be for devs? China's long term goal is to wean itself off western software and hardware.
  
  Speaking strictly in the US, which is what this article is about.
Apparently the instruction set is off-brand MIPS64?!
- I don’t think that is what they mean by “which is a bit like MIPS or RISC-V.“
  
  It is. Originally they were a MIPS-like, then they licensed it and became MIPS-compatible, then they extended it into their own instruction set.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
- I'm having a hard time finding a bullet point list of all it's features.
  
  Some articles are telling me it's a match for Haswell others are telling me it has AVX2. None of them seem that reliable. Do you happen to know?
I believe these still not beat the bang for the buck of X79 and X99 PCs.

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