Better than forcing it

Posted Nov 2, 2025 22:02 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Better than forcing it by pschneider1968
Parent article: Ubuntu introduces architecture variants

> We should not have to scrap hardware that is still working fine and does its job, just because it's old.

There are sometimes very good reasons to scrap hardware that is "still working fine".

In early 2024, I replaced a pair of Xeon dual-socket 2600v2 servers (that I got for free in 2018) with a single dual-socket Xeon 2600v4 server. The "new" machine had a higher total core count than the previous pair, each individual core was faster [1], and nearly 2 years later it has paid for itself about three times over just from the difference in my power bill.

[1] In terms of raw MHz, general IPC, and being able to utilize AVX2 optimizations (ie x86_64v3). Oh, and considerably faster (yet more power efficient) RAM too.