Wols Lists wrote: > On 19/09/2023 00:40, Dale wrote: >>> I get it when you wanna do it your way because it always worked™ >>> (which is >>> not wrong — don’t misunderstand me) and perhaps you had some bad >>> experience >>> in the past. OTOH it’s a pricey component usually only needed by >>> gamers and >>> number crunchers. On-board graphics are just fine for Desktop and even >>> (very) light gaming and they lower power draw considerably. Give it >>> a swirl, >>> maybe you like it. 😄 Both Intel and AMD work just fine with the kernel >>> drivers. >> Well, for one, I usually upgrade the video card several times before I >> upgrade the mobo. When it is built in, not a option. I think I'm on my >> third in this rig. I also need multiple outputs, two at least. One for >> monitor and one for TV. My little NAS box I'm currently using is a Dell >> something. The video works but it has no GUI. At times during the boot >> up process, things don't scroll up the screen. I may be missing a >> setting somewhere but when it blanks out, it comes back with a different >> resolution and font size. I figure it is blanking during the switch. >> My Gentoo box doesn't do that. I can see the screen from BIOS all the >> way to when it finishes booting and the GUI comes up. I'm one of those >> who watches. 😉 >> > Well, in my case I've only recently upgraded to a system where AGPUs > are available :-) > > Plus, although I haven't got it working, I want multi-seat (at > present, my system won't boot with two video cards). You can run > multi-head off integrated graphics, but as far as I know linux > requires one video card per seat. > > Oh, and to the best of my knowledge, you can combine a video card and > an AGPU. > > Cheers, > Wol
I been on Newegg using their rig builder feature. Just to get rough ideas, I picked a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4. Yea, I did a copy and paste. lol It's a bit pricey but compared to my current rig, I think it will run circles around it. My current rig has a AMD FX -8350 Eight-Core Processor running at 4GHz or so. You think I'll see some speed improvement or am I on the wrong track? I'm also shooting for 64GBs of memory at first. I can put in two more sticks later. I got 32GB right now. Thing is, I have 18 virtual desktops now. o_O My problem is the mobo. I need a few PCIe slots. Most just don't have enough. Most have a slot for a video card. Then maybe 2 other slightly slower ones and maybe one slow one. I can't recall what the names are at the moment. I know the length of the connector tends to tell what speed it is, tho some cheat and put long connectors but most of the faster pins aren't used. That confuses things. Anyway, mobo, which I will likely change, CPU and memory is already adding up to about $600. I don't need much of a video card tho. The built in thing may be enough, as long as I can connect my monitor and TV. Either one DB15 and a HDMI or two HDMI will work. My monitor has both. TV is HDMI. Must have TV!! If someone knows of a good mobo, Gigabyte, ASUS preferred, that has several PCIe slots, I'd like to know the model so I can check into it. It's doesn't have to be the latest thing either. I tend to drop down several notches from the top to save money. I still end up with a pretty nice rig and save some money. I got to get a larger hard drive next month. After that, case. Then I start saving up to buy the other stuff. The big thing is the combo of mobo, CPU and memory. I like to get them at the same time and the same place. Just in case the smoke gets out. :/ Dale :-) :-)
