So my nephew wants a gaming pc, he's saved over £300 for the year. It's his 10th birthday soon...
I have a i7 6700, GTX1070. I thought easy enough I'll just upgrade & he can have that Oh boy was I in for a surprise...
Pandemic and supply chain woes I didn't know about! The deal is done over a zoom handshake. I'm giving him my deconstructed setup, for a 'contribution', which will go back into his savings pot mysteriously later.
So I'm looking primarily to knock up a new linux workstation/dev. I'll be heading back to AMD, having left around the Thunderbird/Opteron days...
AMD based 3900x/5800x
B550.
RM650x.
I'm not really a gamer but have put a few more hours in these last few months...homeworld, space engineers, factorio will do me. I do use a 32" 4k, but I play at 1080/1440p.
Work wise, docker, vm's, ruby, elixir, so the 3900 is ott. But I do want to run slack and something else
Graphics is where I'm stuck. I'm primarily thinking something sensible price wise, something comparable to the 1070, but more linux compatibility. Although it all runs fine in Pop_OS atm.
Noting that OCUK have RX 580 (£240) in stock and a RX 5700 XT (£390). The RX580 would give me about the same perf as the 1070 I think... The 5700XT a good bump. I can worry about a major bump; 6800, when supply chains are back. Would dual boot till a single passthru (6800) is an option, or next upgrade.
However a few comments suggest the MSI RX 5700 is loud. If it's quiet on desktop use, I'm happy.
Any other thoughts?
I have a i7 6700, GTX1070. I thought easy enough I'll just upgrade & he can have that Oh boy was I in for a surprise...
Pandemic and supply chain woes I didn't know about! The deal is done over a zoom handshake. I'm giving him my deconstructed setup, for a 'contribution', which will go back into his savings pot mysteriously later.
So I'm looking primarily to knock up a new linux workstation/dev. I'll be heading back to AMD, having left around the Thunderbird/Opteron days...
AMD based 3900x/5800x
B550.
RM650x.
I'm not really a gamer but have put a few more hours in these last few months...homeworld, space engineers, factorio will do me. I do use a 32" 4k, but I play at 1080/1440p.
Work wise, docker, vm's, ruby, elixir, so the 3900 is ott. But I do want to run slack and something else
Graphics is where I'm stuck. I'm primarily thinking something sensible price wise, something comparable to the 1070, but more linux compatibility. Although it all runs fine in Pop_OS atm.
Noting that OCUK have RX 580 (£240) in stock and a RX 5700 XT (£390). The RX580 would give me about the same perf as the 1070 I think... The 5700XT a good bump. I can worry about a major bump; 6800, when supply chains are back. Would dual boot till a single passthru (6800) is an option, or next upgrade.
However a few comments suggest the MSI RX 5700 is loud. If it's quiet on desktop use, I'm happy.
Any other thoughts?
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