On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the G model has graphics, but gives up a little speed. Or as I > put it above, a wiiittttle bit. LOL >
I'll be honest - you should probably think about how important multi monitors are as a priority - is this a desktop or a server? Also, if you REALLY need the extra monitors, I'd consider sticking the video card in a smaller slot and using the faster one for IO/etc. If you're just doing web browsing or whatever you can get by fine with a 1x slot for your GPU. Just don't try to do 3D graphics that way (video/2D will be fine most likely - not GPU encoding though - not that your cheap GPU will get you much of that). You might get better results if you dedicate things more to storage vs compute vs desktop. Sure, it is more hardware, but you probably won't have to spend as much on any of them individually. For example, a box that is JUST doing storage won't really become obsolete anytime soon - you'll literally be able to run it until it breaks, or you need more drives. You can also tailor the RAM to whatever it actually needs (usually not much unless you're running Ceph or really want good cache performance). The compute box will always be a slave to moore's law, but you won't care about how many PCIe slots it has, so you can just spend on the CPU+ram. The desktop for non-gaming could be a really cheap small quiet box that actually doesn't take up much space on your desk - probably something off the shelf. Those name-brand desktops can be really handy as they'll run off of USB-C, support things like USB-C video, and so on. -- Rich
