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on today's episode of the most expensive thing isn't always the best we are gonna

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take this the fastest server money can buy it's

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got 128 processing cores a terabyte of RAM

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it's got storage that can copy files at a hundred gigabytes a second and we're

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going to put a graphics card in it and play video games come along for a grand

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we'll begin by meeting the rtx 3090

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graphics card that we will be installing in our server and i use the word in kind

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of loosely here this is the supreme

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x from MSI and i actually get it that's

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a funny one MSI it's like supreme because you can't make enough of them

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and the prices get jacked up on ebay this thing has an absolutely massive

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triple slot cooler three eight pin power

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connectors three fans and of course everything else that you would expect

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from an rtx 3090 graphics card it's got a full metal back plate pci express gen

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4 16x connector down here and enough RGB

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to choke a horse why anyone wants to choke a horse though

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i've never been able to quite figure out here's the thing it's not as though a

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server like this isn't designed to have gpus installed in it it totally is

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there's a riser right here so the slot comes out at an angle you can actually

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see we're using pci express 16x slots in

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fact they're gen 4 as well for our storage drives which are installed here

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here here and here the issue is that server gpus come in

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pretty standardized form factors and a lot of the time they don't even have

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display outputs and or fans on them so they're designed to sit here and utilize

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the airflow that's already going through the chassis for their own cooling

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dell in their infinite wisdom also requires you to buy a special GPU

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adapter kit that comes with their proprietary cable so you can plug in

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your GPU and a bracket so

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we are going to have to get a little more

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creative than that i mean how ironic is that dell has a proprietary 12-pin

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connector so that i can go to dual eight pin and then back to a 12-pin if i put a

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filter fortunately

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we have a plan since we don't actually

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need to install this in a rack unit anyway we can just take a pci express

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extension jam it in there

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and run the graphics card wherever we

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please i could even put it on top of the monitor if i really wanted to it's not

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really that crazy if you think about it i mean the traces inside your

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motherboard are basically just you know strands of copper so all we're

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doing with an extension like this is extending the copper strands some more

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now we might run into trouble with pci express gen 4 signaling since getting

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the timing right on that is a bit more complicated but we already know that

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running an rtx 3090 even on a gen 3 slot

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which we can manually change it to if we need to is only going to cost us a

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couple percent performance so this seems like a reasonable compromise before we

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can fire it up though there's a little trick here we're just gonna put a little

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wire into the green and black pins on our atx 12-pin connector before turning

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our power supply on plugging in the server here we go

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you can really hear the performance look at this RGB

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it goes perfectly with our server

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all right arnold it's a good thing we set the fans to the quiet profile it's

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just loud because it has intrusion detection so if the top panel's off

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it spins up i don't know what we can do about that

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where's the intrusion detection at the back but i think it's electrical too

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so even if you push it down it needs to also be grounded hold on i got this

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oh my god do not unplug that power supply

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oh man they call me the pc surgeon

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that's some open heart surgery right there okay so what i'm hoping

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is that we can trip the chassis intrusion detection thing

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so that we don't have to listen to this noise quite so loud yeah there might not

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be any getting around it no i'll just deal with the noise it's easier for this

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to get dragged off the table if the cables are

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hanging up okay i just need to keep those clear of the fans you need fans

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for good cooling hey andy make sure you get this by the time this video comes

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out that thing might finally be on lttstore.com wait lttstore.com that's

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where you get this oh yeah ltd store this game will unlock in approximately

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less than an hour there we go all right so we might actually get to play this in

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the meantime for anyone who didn't catch it in our first video about this

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that's task manager

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double flex the reason there's so many drives in this thing is because this

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machine is actually going to end up being our main video editing storage

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server so those are all going to be put together in some kind of Linux raid or

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multi-disc or something like that but we're focused on the GPU rtx 3090 baby

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also there's a terabyte of RAM in here which

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are using 148 gigs do you still have a RAM disc installed

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yeah that makes sense um we're not gonna end up using that for gaming though we

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had intended to like install all our games in RAM but what we realized is

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that every RAM disk software we tried and there's like half a dozen of them on

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here was limited by the software itself

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not by the speed of the memory so our honey badgers even though we've only got

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i think two of them like Windows rated together it's actually faster than a RAM

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disk before we game we've got some unfinished

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business though blender wouldn't run because we didn't have a graphics card

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last time so it's time for a blender CPU rendering flex now even auto tile size

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defaulted to 64 threads and i keyed in

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256 but i have a feeling that is not going to

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work especially because we've got two CPU sockets and i don't believe blender

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is numa aware so it might be limited to just one but here we go bmw

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no it's utilizing it about 69

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not too shabba labby 48 seconds classroom is something i expect to be

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like a 5 to 15 minute test this is gonna do it in

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it's tracking about two minutes and 35 seconds of course because we're not

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benefiting from multiple cpus we'd be better off with a Threadripper now

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normally i would be impressed that we're getting just shy of 200 frames per

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second 4k ultra nightmare details do maternal except that

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when you're got a 60 000 machine you

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might expect more bang for your buck now the situation has changed a lot over the

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last few years in particular but video games are still relatively lightly

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threaded compared to other applications like 3d animation or

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video editing even video encoding in particular

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so what happens is if you've got a CPU like this that is all about

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width rather than per core performance

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well you can pop into your task manager and see what's happening here our GPU is

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running at like now that's not quite representative of the real situation but

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it thinks it's running at like 10 percent capacity now based on the heat

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coming off of this it's definitely working reasonably hard

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but the fans are also barely spinning that's

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crazy town we're using 24 40 CPU

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downloading a cyberpunk update okay

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that's some that's some heavy compression this

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is one good looking freaking game

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particularly with ray tracing on is that not unreal

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it's not get it this is at 4k with rtx on we're

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using dlss but we've manually selected

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the quality setting so that's why we're only getting

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43 FPS right now of course the question that we have

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right now is how well our poor

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at best three gigahertz processor is keeping up with our GPU

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let's go have a look shall we wow we are entirely GPU bound right now

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we are up to 75 degrees and at 96 97

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usage oh yeah GPU power usage is anywhere from 94 to 100 percent

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absolutely cranked so as long as you're playing cyberpunk at 4k absolutely maxed

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your 30 90 is gonna be the bottleneck for anyone who was wondering that's how

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many cores cyberpunk can hit assuming it has all the cores in the

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world to work with so we're sitting at like 17 18 usage

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man this game is the new crisis

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like nothing is able to run this absolutely

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maxed out remember we're using dlss we're only rendering at 1440p and then

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it's upscaling to 4k with that said from my experience with

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it earlier today dlss quality on this

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looks really good that is to say the dlss quality preset not the quality of

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dlss look at this fire Jake look at these shadows look at these shadows of

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the people walking around on the street there's no like stair stepping there's

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no like judder because they're only refreshing every tenth frame

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man remember how good this game looked when it came out it was hard to run too

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and it still looks good but compared to cyberpunk just now it's like ah no it

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looks 10 years older it really does like how fake the sun rays look and

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stuff

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all right so let's exit to menu and then we're gonna see if

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our load times don't suck because we have 128 cores i don't know we've loaded

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it up once just to make sure it's not cloud syncing a profile or anything but

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this is what 25 gigabytes a second in

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storage and 128 CPU cores gets you for

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gta loading times let's see if it helps at all like if you were to do this on a

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hard drive it might actually take like two or three minutes no i know i

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remember i used to benchmark this game on hard drives back in the day our test

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rigs had like 128 gig ssds like

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we couldn't have all the games on SSD feel like i'm a grandpa talking to like

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you know the young boys that grew up with solid state you know i remember i

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bought my that was not bad that's pretty good that's actually not bad it's not as

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good as it like could be like realistically that should have

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happened a little faster but it's still pretty good yeah not too shabby

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the game it's like oh look you know we got

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fake god rays and pre-rendered shadows yeah pre-rendered shadows oh nice

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i mean these soft shadows are they're pretty good for

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back then but it's no global illumination all right how hard is our

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poor GPU work in here

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oh boy GPU one power is

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anywhere from uh 65

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to 92 so we are a little CPU bottlenecked in

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some situations given it's running at a mere 2.9

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gigahertz that kind of makes sense if you wondered how many cores verifying

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your game cache takes uh the answer is one you might think you know oh 200 290

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FPS that's pretty good that is terrible i mean didn't we hit

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like 500 600 FPS on the new ryzen 5000

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chips yeah maybe at 1080p okay that's fair that's fair but still i

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don't think it scales that difference no i mean right now to give you guys some

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idea we all tab out we are now using um

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anywhere from 45 to 70 percent of our GPU because we are so CPU bottleneck

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only one core was actually doing anything so okay

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it's not a gaming machine but the good news is that the things that we will do

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with this fast storage fast networking actually

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are heavily dependent on having lots and lots of CPU cores so stay tuned because

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