Dale wrote:
The one I'm not sure about is the PCIe one which may break apart to fit
different connectors. I seem to recall that goes to a video card on
systems with those expensive and power hungry video cards. Since this
mobo has built in video, is that the right thing?
DUDE!!!
You are buying a video card. =|
Unless you've changed your parts selection since your post with the
links... AMD boards DO NOT have video functionality. It's the truth!!!
Some of their CPUs, going back to the FM2+ generation (which I have an
example of...) have SOC functionality which includes a few SATA
controllers and a few GPU cores. A typical x400G series chip will have 4
CPU cores and 8 GPU cores. The chip you selected is NOT a G-series chip
so therefore you need a GPU....
There are a number of factors that go into selecting a PSU. For example,
if you are running an RTX 4090, the reccommended PSU is 850 watts, so
that's what you get... For a small GPU, just sum up the power
requirements of all the parts in the system, add 10-20%, check to make
sure that psu has all the power outputs you need and get it.
My old threadripper was starting to burn out, the sound chip had gone
down so I decided to spend a little bitcoin and buy a monster rig for
the robot apocalypse, so I bought a new 32 core threadripper, installed
512gb ram, keept my Titan RTX gpu but added an RTX 6000 GPU, new SSDs,
and a RAID array. I had trouble getting the UEFI firmware working, but
once that was done my old gentoo install works like a champ. I'm
powering the rig with a 1600W BeQuiet PSU, powered with a dedicated 240v
circuit. (the motherboard has provisioning for overclocking and would
require dual PSUs for overclocking....)
Counting both new and re-used parts, the bill for the machine is in the
ballpark of $20k
The rig can run even 70B LLM AI systems in GPU memory. If you are
looking for a sexy AI waifu, I suggest a model called Midnight-Miqu, you
can grab it on Huggingface and the host software is lm-studio.
Also: Asus is getting bad press these days, check Gamer's Nexus. Yes, I
did buy their flagship board a few weeks ago, and I've had a terrible
headache getting it running decently well...
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