Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-22 19:31, Pankaj Jangid wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
David Christensen writes: > On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: >> I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI >> Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them >> a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining >> technolog

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-21 21:06, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining technologies. I want these cards to be put to us

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Steven Mainor writes: > Well I can say that I have a ryzen 7 2700X in my desktop and I am very happy > with it. I don't know what question specifically I can answer for you but I > have no complaints about it. > > I would look for a motherboard with components(sound, sensors, network > contro

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:39:45 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: ... > The AMD cards probably don't function without a firmware blob, > even with otherwise open-source drivers. Depends what you mean by "function" :) IIRC, my system with an RX-570 would boot to console without the firmware packages install

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:36:11AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI > Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them > a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining > technologies. > Ther

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I don???t want any proprietary software to run on these systems. And hence > exploring possibilities. My questions: > > 1. I had a look at i7 and Ryzen 7. For multi-threading applications, it >appears that Ryzen is better choice because it allows more number of >sim

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-22 Thread deloptes
Pankaj Jangid wrote: > 3. I’ll also put these machine to serve local copy of all my data. I’ll > synchronize it with some cloud space. I need recommendations for > reliable hard disks. A combination of SSD/HDD to balance between > cost, performance and reliability will probably be best. But I real

Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-21 Thread Steven Mainor
On Friday, January 22, 2021 12:06:11 AM EST Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI > Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them > a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining > technologies. > > I

Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

2021-01-21 Thread Pankaj Jangid
I am setting up one (or may be two) home-office servers. I have 6 ATI Radian RX580 graphics cards that are lying in cold storage. I used them a couple of years back to experiment with various crypto-mining technologies. I want these cards to be put to use for experimenting with multi-threading wor