So i have a gaming desktop that not the best or the newest. What takes up most of my drive space is games, updates, and software’s. Im wondering if i should switch to linux and if linux will improve any performance for my main machine? If you believe i should switch what os should i go with or why or why not should i switch?
I mostly game and do mess with ollama/ai tools because i think that’s cool. I want to do more things in the future but that might beyond my drive space?
What would you advise?
64 GB DDR3, interesting. That’s a lot for that old tech.
It’s a Xeon, workstation and server CPU, so made to take a lot of RAM, 4 memory channels.
Still a lot for that old tech and a desktop gaming computer.
For a server, it’s not a lot.
Yeah but why wouldn’t you when sticks are so cheap now? I have an E5-2680v2 and 32GB of RAM. I can have SO many browser tabs open, and games actually run quicker because Linux does a really good job of using excess RAM as file cache. If a game accesses a texture more than once it almost always ends up in cache. I probably will upgrade to 64GB at some point, because I’ve got two 16GB sticks so only using half the memory channels. Wanna get an E5-2697v2 first though, much better single core performance.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t. I have 64 GB of DDR5. 🤷♂️
I was just reacting to the fact that 64 GB is unusually much for DDR3, since DDR3 is quite old and people usually didn’t have that much RAM back in those days.
I reiterate: I’m not saying it’s a bad thing. Add as much RAM as you like. Who cares.
Well, yeah, but seen as it’s old now it’s dirt cheap, so anyone still running it is gonna have a lot just because they can. It’s not like those old computers aren’t upgradeable lol
There’s no “but”. 🙂 I’m not disagreeing. I was just reacting.
It’s like seeing a whole heap of fossils in one place. It’s super cool and a neat find, but you react because it’s a lot.
I know computers are upgradeable.
Fair fair :)
Doesn’t the E5 2690 support up to 512GiB LRDIMM? Pretty sure my 2697v2 do.
🤷♂️