selfhosting.couchsurfing

after reading the leaked info on Intel #WildcatLake, I did a little digging on #TwinLake, its predecessor, and was very disappointed to find out that Twin Lake CPUs like the i3-N355 only support 16GB RAM.

maybe that's enough for many people building a Proxmox system with an N355 - an 8-core, all-E-core CPU with a max TDP of 15 watts, which is ~25% slower than an i5-8500T released 5 years earlier while using less than half the power - but I'd really rather it support 32GB.

then again, anybody buying Intel for a low-power mini Proxmox box probably has some other good reason for doing so, because #Intel hasn't been competitive in compute per watt for a while.

Feb 8, 2025 at 11:56pmWeb
Show threadselfhosting.couchsurfingFeb 8, 2025

the Twin Lake chips also have only 9 PCIe lanes, so depending what you want to use them for, you have to really hope that your motherboard manufacturer allocated them in a sane way - and read the fine print to find out whether they've done something like allocate only x1 PCIe lane to your NVMe slot.

all in all, I've soured a lot on Intel's all-E-core designs after learning more about them... and it looks like Wildcat Lake won't even offer any all-E-core designs, falling back instead to a design with 2 P-cores. which, again, may not be what people running Proxmox would prefer.