Firstly, don’t think I am loaded here this is an ideal list that I will chip away at over time - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xVL9kf

I am looking at getting a fractal desigm north xl second hand, I presume there is no danger in that other than standard non new concerns.

Are case models universal or will I need a specific motherboard and then specific cpu/gpu etc.?

  • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    Brilliant, when I first looked at doing this a few years ago I kept getting conflicts and it got a bit annoying - purely based on not bothering to resolve the issues. This is great thank you. I am going to change cooler

    I am doing a linux build thus the AMD build. A guy at work has said Nvidia are the only option in trms of high end, it doesnt appear that clear cut to me for my use case - am I cutting my self short with te AMD?

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      My last 2 cards have been AMD. The only big loss you will see is with games that use raytracing. I saved some money and went mid to higher end AMD and love the card. It handles everything i throw at it, and if the game features raytracing, I either set to very low or turn it off. It doesn’t really matter much to me. Seriously, everything else I have thrown at it runs incredible even at 4k for most games.

    • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      I am on linux with AMD, too. but I used my old GTX1060 for a while and in my experience it depends on use case, distro and budget. So what are you going to use the system for?

      • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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        3 days ago

        Gaming, I want to move from console gaming. I will also use it for streaming movies and such but anything that is gaming capable will handle plex or jellyfin.

        I am looking at bazzite I think, I am about to try it out moving from mint.

        Budgetwise it is all top tier at the minute and aim toward it over time, there are bits I can pick up like SSDs and memory and the case and then get the most suitable cpu gpu when the time comes to commit.

        • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 days ago

          Then I see no issues with an AMD Card. There are some edge cases I know about where nVidia seems more suitable due to their drivers/software support. But to be honest, I don’t do high end gaming, so there could be things that nVidia generally does better than AMD, independently from linux.