Hi! I succesfully used a Toshiba Satellite, 8GB RAM and 500GB hard disk. And a Dell Latitude with 4GB RAM, Nvidia card and 250GB hard disk. But maybe this is not high end to you...
Cheers, Sylvia On 14 August 2016 at 22:14, Drew Samson <netp...@q.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using Fedora inside Virtual Box on a Windows 7 host for a few > years now so I can learn Fedora / Linux before taking the plunge and unplug > from Windows more permanently. I think I'm ready to take the plunge and > build a new desktop with Fedora 24 being my primary os and at most run > Windows (should I need it for some reason) inside a VBox vm. I suspect > running Fedora inside a vm is really different than running it right off > the hardware like changing a hdd controller with a mouse click is much > faster & easier than swapping a cable and/or setting or adding an adapter > so I'm trying to do my homework before spending $. > > My question is: what hardware would someone recommend for building a > non-gaming high-end desktop? About the only non-negotiable element are my 2 > 30" dell u3011 monitors both running at 2560x1600. Since I'm a day-trader I > need really good color & resolution for my trading charts but things like a > high frame rate for gaming are not necessary. I have no amd / intel cpu > preference - just 8 cores preferably and probably 4 ram slots on a mb since > I don't want less than 32gb ram. Recently I saw someone indicate nvidia > graphics are not linux friendly and since that's what I've always used on > my builds an alternative is needed. I've had really good results with > Gigabyte mb's but am willing to try another brand. I'd also like to use an > ssd hdd so does Fedora support sata3 or even sata 3.2 well? Am I correct in > thinking ddr3 or ddr4 or ram specs of any kind (latency) are pretty much > irrelevant and Fedora would support all such hardware? Does Fedora have > issues with hardware raid which I usually use? Does Fedora care about 3 or > 4 channel ram configuration? Not being a gamer I don't use SLI but since > we're on the subject about compatible hw...does Fedora / linux / > open-source have any capable sli graphics cards which work well and easily? > > If someone has built an entire system like this recently would you be > willing to share your component build list? Or if you have a graphics card > which installed easily and would support my resolutions would you mind > sharing it? If someone was frustrated with a particular component would you > mind sharing what to steer clear of? > > I would prefer to avoid the click & pray approach to component selection > so I'm asking what has worked well for others...or what was problematic. > > Thanks for any advice & feedback. > > Drew > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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