Rich Freeman wrote: > 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. >
On my main rig, I need at least two monitors. One for web browsing, email and other stuff and one for watching TV. I may add another monitor to that, at least power it up when I need to manage a lot of files. It may not run full time, at first anyway. It's one reason on this different build, I plan to use a four port video card. I'll still have one port left over. The video card, it isn't much by modern standards. I booted the NAS box up since it has one of these cards in it but one just like it will likely go in the new build. From lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [NVS 510] Of course someone pointed out that a display port thingy on the mobo can be turned into two outputs, I think. I didn't know that before. Your idea tho, having a PCIe v4 video card or plugging the card I have into a X4 slot might work, if the card allows that. As it is, the faster drives I need will be connected to the mobo ports. Drives that can be slower, such as for torrent sharing, will be connected to the little SATA cards. My average upload is about 13TBs a month. That's a lot of sharing. I'm not to concerned with the speed of the torrent sharing as it works well enough now. Back to video, current card is v2. If I found a card that was v4 or so then it would likely be as fast or faster than my current v2 card even if in a X4 slot. I don't play games. Likely the biggest load is my TV. A lot of videos are 1080p, some are 720p. Some are so old, they are less than that and not HD at all. My main rig that I'm currently typing on has this: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] It has so far served me well for my monitor and TV. I think the NVS above is more powerful than the GTX. It's hard for me to know which is better since it is like comparing apples to oranges when looking at model numbers. I'm pretty sure the NVS is a good bit newer which usually means faster. At some point, the mobo that is on the way will be the drive box, NAS if you will. Then a newer build will be the new main rig. I'm hopeful that slots and such can be sorted out by then. Maybe some new way to connect a lot of drives will appear. Hopefully not USB. My current rig will be a spare or something. After all, it does work well enough. Could even be a NAS box that runs 24/7 and serves up my TV video. Maybe. I dunno yet. I'm getting a faster CPU, more memory and still have a few PCIe slots. It's a start. :/ I hope I kept the version and slot width straight up there. It's kinda hard to keep track. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Stuff still in State USPS hub. Hasn't moved yet. May only have mobo and memory tomorrow and may have to be the squeaky wheel for rest of stuff, to get it moving. That means no CPU either. Hey, I got the little m.2 stick. I also have a cute little cooler for the m.2 stick on the way. :-D
