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On Thursday, December 29, 2016 9:36:43 PM CET thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> On 12/29/2016 08:06 PM, Dale wrote: |
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> > thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> >> I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, |
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> >> Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). |
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> >> |
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> >> - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, |
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> >> - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache |
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> >> - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 w/ DDR3, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan |
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> >> - Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR3-1866MHz CL10 Dual Channel Kit |
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> >> - Samsung 850 EVO Series mSATA Solid State Drive, 1TB |
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> >> - Asus GeForce GT 720 Silent CSM, 2GB, PCI-E w/ D-Sub VGA, DVI, HDMI |
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> >> |
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> >> Will I have any problems installing Gentoo on this configuration, eg. |
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> >> with Video Card etc.? |
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> >> Do I need more RAM? |
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> > I built a rig a while back and have 16GBs of memory. I also have |
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> > portage's work directory on tmpfs. There are times when I wish I had |
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> > more memory. I'm planning to upgrade to 24GBs and eventually, 32GBs. |
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> > I'm not sure what your board can hold but may want to think about future |
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> > upgrades. I run KDE here, there are times where I use a lot of memory. |
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> > I'm using ~8GBs as I type. |
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> > I've been using a Gigabyte board for a long while. I'm happy with it. |
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> > I actually still have a 2nd board that I upgraded from. It was a first |
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> > step to upgrade memory and such. I think I had to change the IOMMU |
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> > setting in the BIOS. I think that was the name of it. It's something |
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> > like that. I think I had to add something to the kernel boot line too |
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> > on that. Let me know if you need it, I'll go dig. |
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> > One other thing, I have a UPS that shows what amount of power my system |
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> > is using. It shows ~150 watts. It will jump to ~190 when compiling |
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> > heavily. You may want to make sure that P/S is well made. I've never |
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> > used a P/S that came with a case. Generally, they are cheaply made. |
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> > May want to make sure of that before you use it. Nothing worse than a |
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> > crappy P/S. |
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> > Dale |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> Thank you for the input Dale. |
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> Yes, Power Supply is a good point. I think I'll change the case and |
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> select different PS. Any hints as to which brand is good? |
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> I think they are all made in China :-/ |
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> Thelma |
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I agree with Dale. |
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Make sure you have a good P/S. As for which are good, check reviews online, I |
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am sure Dale and others know which sites are reliable. |
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"Made in China" <> "Made in China", I know of Chinese manufacturers that make |
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really good and reliable products. I also know some that simply don't care. |
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In this case, replace Chinese with American, Dutch, German,.... and you end up |
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with the same statement which will also be true. |
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As for the specs: |
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- 8 core CPU: nice |
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- mSATA SSD: Make sure it fits your mainboard. NVMe is faster, but also more |
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expensive. |
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The Samsung EVO series are good for normal work-loads. The performance does |
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tend to drop when the write-cache starts to fill up. With multiple VMs using |
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disk and swap, that can happen quicker then you think. Check your |
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requirements. |
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- memory: Personally, I would increase this to 32GB with the fastest spec that |
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matches the CPU and mainboard. It helps a lot, especially with Virtualbox. |
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What isn't used by applications/VMs will be available for disk-cache. |
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- Graphics: Can't really comment, for normal desktop effects, this will be |
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more than enough. For average games, the same. For high-end games, you'd be |
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speccing your computer differently anyway :) |
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I also would consider, if you're using VMs, a large (size) spinning disk to |
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store VM templates and ISO-images. These are not used often, but this way you |
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can keep the SSD available for VMs, installed software and your documents. |
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Laptop harddrives are generally quite power efficient. |
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