On 12/07/2018 06:47 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, >>> you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string: >>> >>> CPU_FLAGS_X86="" >>> >>> and then do "emerge -puDN --with-bdeps=y @world". This is because >>> CPU_FLAGS_X86 is not empty by default. It contains sse and sse2 by >>> default, because these are supported by all 64-bit CPUs. >>> >> >> What I did, I commented out the whole line and ran it that way. > > If you comment it out, it will have default values. If you set it to an > empty string, you should be able to see which packages make use of the > default flags (like sse and sse2.) > > Note it's a pretend emerge (-p). Just to check which packages you have > installed that make use of these flags. > > >> One last question for anyone who has done this recently. When finished, >> I'll have a FX-8350 CPU with 8 cores at 4.0/4.2GHz, 32GBs of memory all >> on a Gigabyte 970 series mobo. Would there be any point in upgrading to >> a whole new rig or is what I have about as fast is reasonable to build? >> I don't do gaming or anything. Even the GTX 650 video card is likely >> overkill for what I do here. The older 200 series card is working just >> fine. On one hand, my current build is several years old. On the >> other, computers seem to have reached their peak. I'm sure there is >> more powerful systems out there but would I be any better off with one?
Since the AM3+ and its C32/G34 Opteron counterparts are the last and best x86 cpus without ME/PSP I would say you are better off with what you have - the best piledriver cpus like the FX-8350+ are still able to play the latest games and in a VM via IOMMU-GFX if you want. In any case I would consider a OpenPOWER (ppc64/ppc64le) arch system (like the blackbird or talos 2) as an upgrade path instead of any futher x86 stuff as there aren't any black boxes, there is documentation+firmware sources and the cpus are made in usa.
