Blackbird Update 5
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Well, there is no update related to my own Blackbird. It is still not
shipped.
I just finished reading of Blackbird semi-review from Cameron Kaiser
[1]. As always it is very interesting. He made some points about
usability of such system. He wrote his experience with a minimal
Blackbird configuration (a 4-core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, no separate GPU
and the miniATX case).
He recommends to get a 8-core CPU, a discrete GPU, preferrably at least
32 GB of RAM and a bigger case (a minitower or bigger). Even then he
does not recommend to use such system as user's primary desktop
workstation.
Oh, that's exactly what I'm going to do. I ordered the basic bundle
(the system with 4-core CPU) and got just 15 GB of RAM. But I also
ordered a compatible AMD GPU and the minitower case. The system should
replace my main home workstation which is the old good SGI O2. But I
assume that in my case the boost of performace will be large enough to
satisfy my expectations (the O2 has a 250 MHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM and its
CRM GPU was already slow in 1999 and I'm still able to use it today).
References:
[1]
https://www.talospace.com/2019/06/a-semi-review-of-raptor-blackbird.html