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I took a hard, rational look at Ryzen for my latest workstation purchase. Ultimately I went with Intel due to all the reports of crashes under heavy SMT load on Linux.

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That's understandable, but it's also worth pointing out that that issue is now understood and affects only processors manufactured before June 2017. Any affected processor should be returned for replacement or RMA.

You can RMA affected chips (I've done so), which were from early batches (apparently). It's inconvenient but it's not the first and won't be the last piece of hardware that has to be RMA-ed. At least you can RMA them! Intel didn't offer that when TSX turned out to be broken.

After compiling things on an 8 thread Haswell Xeon, and now a 16-thread Ryzen, I really want a ThreadRipper...

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