Re: [vfio-users] (good) working GPU for passthrough?

2019-02-11 Thread Tobias Geiger
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 11:03:03PM +0100, Tobias Geiger wrote: Hello! after nearly 5 years of passing through my Radeon HD7800 - it feels old and slow when used with newer games and 1GB of RAM also doesn't feel right anymore... I tried a VEGA 64 - i was able to live with the ACS patch n

Re: [vfio-users] (good) working GPU for passthrough?

2019-01-30 Thread Tobias Geiger
, at 1:39 PM, Bronek Kozicki wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, at 10:39 PM, Kash Pande wrote: On 2019-01-17 2:03 p.m., Tobias Geiger wrote: I tried a VEGA 64 - i was able to live with the ACS patch needed here (Z170 Chipset... not needed with the old HD7800, but whatever...) - but i couldn't stan

[vfio-users] (good) working GPU for passthrough?

2019-01-17 Thread Tobias Geiger
Hello! after nearly 5 years of passing through my Radeon HD7800 - it feels old and slow when used with newer games and 1GB of RAM also doesn't feel right anymore... I tried a VEGA 64 - i was able to live with the ACS patch needed here (Z170 Chipset... not needed with the old HD7800, but what

Re: [vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

2016-05-13 Thread Tobias Geiger
;m using vt-d and passing through a GPU so I assume I'm on a working version. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:14 AM Tobias Geiger wrote: yes, here some links in increasing credibility order :) : https://m.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/3smipw/psa_thousands_of_cheap_e5_xeons_flood_ebay/ h

Re: [vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

2016-05-13 Thread Tobias Geiger
or. I currently use the E5-2670v1 and am not aware of a vt-d issue. Do you have more information about that? On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:07 AM Tobias Geiger wrote: Hi Ryan, ok now im confused: my understanding was i need a SR0KX version of the E5-2670, cause the SR0H8 hast microcode issues regardin

Re: [vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

2016-05-13 Thread Tobias Geiger
th my SuperMicro board. The biggest issues have been related to AMD/nVidia specific issues. The asrock motherboard you linked is not compatible wit hthe E5-2670 cpu though. The one you linked is a Socket R3, you need Socket R for the E5-2670v1. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:28 AM Tobias Geiger wrote: Hi,

Re: [vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

2016-05-13 Thread Tobias Geiger
Hi, great suggestions - thanks so far! Seems i have the choice between - this really good price/value E5-2670 Dual Xeon and this board: http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EP2C612D8#Specifications (the Supermicro one is at least here in Germany much more expensive - and

[vfio-users] Hardware recommendation?

2016-05-12 Thread Tobias Geiger
Hello List! yesterday my beloved dx58so with its first gen 920 i7 got broke :( im really sad, except for the astronomicaly high power usage i was 100% happy with the system. Now it suddenly only recognizes 2998MB (?!) of the installed 16GB RAM - all of a sudden, dont ask me why. it also fails t