Greetings buildapc!
I built my current rig during the parts drought during the pandemic or whatever, I scraped together whatever I could find and then stopped keeping up with PC parts for a few years. Looking to build a new rig, PCPartPicker attached, just looking for some double checking for any details I missed.
Use case: Linux and Linux only. It’s gonna run some FreeCAD and some LibreOffice and a lot of Firefox and a lot of Satisfactory. I’m trying to build it in time for Satisfactory’s launch on September 10, I’ve heard tell of a Ryzen 7600X3D coming imminently that I don’t want to wait for.
I have a Gigabyte M34WQ monitor (1440p ultrawide 144Hz FreeSync) that I’d like to take full advantage of in Unreal engine games like Satisfactory, the upcoming Subnautica 3 and such.
My budget is $1500, I can exceed that but for every $100 over I’m going to read you a vogon poem.
This is to be my first desktop AMD GPU. My current rig (Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080) is Nvidia, it was all I could get my hands on, and the 1080 predates a lot of the whiz bang acronyms like DLSS RTX OMG LOL, I have no idea how well any of that from AMD or Nvidia works in Linux, I don’t particularly care about raytracing. Word on the street is AMD is less of a pain in the head to deal with on Linux and Wayland stands a chance of running, so…
thoughts/suggestions/donations?
Update: Sub in a 7700X CPU and a 7900GRE GPU and…IT’S ALIVE:
Everything but the case arrived so I decided to go ahead and test bench it.
The Crucial P3 series is QLC-based, which I’m not a huge fan of because your performance is strongly dependent on the SLC cache. (Also, early QLC had endurance issues but no idea if that’s still the case.) I’d go with a TLC-based SSD if it doesn’t break the budget.
Other than that it looks like a decent build. Should perform well with Linux.
The last two machines I built used Samsung 980 Pros, I heard something about Samsung firmware problems?
There are a lot of these questions I engineered myself out of asking with my current machine. For example, my current machine has one NVMe slot, simple to deal with, it was PCIe 4.0, 4.0 drives were what was available, decision made.
This new motherboard has three slots, one supports PCIe 5.0. A few 5.0 drives are available, not a tremendous selection…should I bother with that yet or get a 4.0 drive, install it in the motherboard’s 4.0x4 slot and maybe install a 5.0 drive later? PCIe 4.0 is plenty fast to boot Linux from, hell if I go all NVMe it’ll outrun my NVMe / plus SATA /home setup I’ve got now.
980 pros are fine. You just need to update the firmware. Otherwise, there’s a small risk it’s one of the older batches that degraded quickly.
My personal recommendation would be either SN850X, SN770, or 990 pro if you’re feeling fancy. Unless you need a drive for something very specific, you’ll be happy with any of the bunch.
Should you bother with PCIe 5.0? Not really. The difference is barely noticeable. It’s like with monitors, big difference between 60hz and 120hz, but very small between 120hz and 240hz. Plus, you’re not reading and writing lots of data every second of using the PC.
Would you use the lower 4.0 slot or the upper 5.0 slot?
Doesn’t matter with 4.0 drives.
Probably just put it further away from GPU, which should always be in top slot, just to bring temps down a bit. Doesn’t really matter if you don’t, it won’t heat up much from GPU anyway.