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.
oh hey your build and my friend’s is almost the same: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/bDzZh3
just a question are you set on a Micro ATX build?
Reason I’m asking is cause:- you could upgrade the Air CPU cooler with an All-In-One (AIO) liquid cooler like the Thermalright Aqua Elite [$44.99 USD as of Aug 21, 2024]
- you could save a significant amount of money on the case with like Be Quiet’s 500DX [$56.90 USD as of Aug 21, 2024]
- it’s kinda crazy that the white variant is even cheaper than the black case as there’s usually a ‘white tax’ for white colored cases
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…
Yep, NVIDIA’s gpus can cause inexplicably weird issues with Linux, they’ve gotten a better but honestly you’ll have a better time with AMD rather than NVIDIA.
- even tho NVIDIA’s previously announced open sourcing their drivers it’s only kernel space code which is still barely better than not open sourcing at all
besides the suggestions made above, I see nothing wrong with your build. Even with your current selection of parts, Wayland should just work no matter which distro you go with👍
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