[PLUG] How do AMD Ryzen 2nd gen processors/boards go with Linux

[Arun Khan]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 2:36 AM Ravishankar Rajagopalan
<rravishankar at mail.com> wrote:
>
> Just to add, the boards I saw on the net are all gaming boards. I need something for software development (not necessarily an ultra-powerful gaming system). But I do use VM's. If anyone has tried and tested recommendation for boards and graphic cards too, please let me know.
>

Haven't kept up with the AMD CPU line so don't know if the Ryzen
lineup support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) [a]

If you plan to run to VMs then more vCPU you have, the better it is +
the RAM to support.  Lenovo gaming laptop has Core i7-8750 (6 cores)
and with HT you get 12 vCPU.  RAM start with 16GB (1 DIMM) and leave
DIMM slots for later expansion.

[a] (Hyper Threading in Intel lingo for multiple (2) threads per core).

-- Arun Khan