AussieBear
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Why wouldn't u just grab another 360 if you're gonna go the crossfire route.. you can grab one for like 100 bux and crossfiring the same 2 cards is always the simplest route.
Plus it's for your kid anyways, so fuck him and his l33t specs
There is no point in any bridged graphics modes. What did you expect your kid to do with it?
Since it's a learning machine, let them learn. What distro do you plan on using? If it's a first time, don't go with a specialized distro. But it's still important to understand that using the right distro means everything.
id expect him to start watching watch porn at 99 fps... idk.. id run civ 6 on it.. i know thats on linux steam.. other than that.. who knows.. i would look around for 3d/audio/digital art software for da thang... id want it to have some workstation/gaming ability... hell be using software before i know it.. and so will i if i transition over..
I don't know if Civ6 benefits from bridged mode in linux. When it comes to scientific tools in all fields, secure information, serving the entire internet, controlling the utilities, linux dominates the market. But game developers (that serve everything on linux systems) rarely optimize games for bridged GPU systems. Mind you, people rarely do bridged systems anyways, just because logically speaking, it's a shitty upgrade strategy. So it's a niche within a niche. But, you do have things like PCI-E passthrough, which means you can do isolated tasking with hardware through containers or VMs.
But yeah, with that hardware, what distro? Linux is simply a kernel, not an OS.
Are you telling me my bridged quadruple video card setup I invested 3,000$ into was a waste?
BUT I WANNA PLAY EVERYTHING IN 8K ON AN IMAX SCREEN
I don't know if Civ6 benefits from bridged mode in linux. When it comes to scientific tools in all fields, secure information, serving the entire internet, controlling the utilities, linux dominates the market. But game developers (that serve everything on linux systems) rarely optimize games for bridged GPU systems. Mind you, people rarely do bridged systems anyways, just because logically speaking, it's a shitty upgrade strategy. So it's a niche within a niche. But, you do have things like PCI-E passthrough, which means you can do isolated tasking with hardware through containers or VMs.
But yeah, with that hardware, what distro? Linux is simply a kernel, not an OS.
lots of fancy smart stuff to learn..
sure, i get the strategy being less than ideal.. but i do have two.. well 3 amd cards.. the 7750 and r7 360 are the only functional ones.. they are cheap from time to time on ebay if i want to pair them out.. nothing on cheap today though... i do see other cheap older pairs of amd gpus going from time to time too. this pc wont have my hp power restrictions.. so that opens up a lot of other cards..
would 2gb r7 360 in the 16x and 1 gb 7750 in the 4x work in crossfirex.. or do they need to be same model gpus and same gbs?
They'll work with a lil finesse, but if you're following along, the question is "what's the point?"
Yes, you can run different cards. But what I was getting at, you wont be doing much more than powering the second card and allowing it to generate heat. As it wont be used at all. It will be utterly useless. Unless you have a strategy to run the second card for some purpose (and in that case, why run it as bridged when you can just run a 2nd GPU unbridged... yes, multiple AMD cards in a system does not mean crossfire unless you actually USE crossfire modes).
See if some Ethereum miner wants to buy one of your cards and keep the other.
Here, get a feel for linux and what you want to do. Just install a maintained LTS like Mint 18.1 XFCE / Ubuntu 16.04 MATE / Elementary OS Loki. Skip mainline Ubuntu because they are migrating. Your hardware is a little iffy to run full-time as a KDE IMO, and Gnome is migrating to GTK4 (a major standards change).
https://www.linuxmint.com/ XFCE or Cinnamon
https://elementary.io/
https://ubuntu-mate.org/
*MAYBE* https://getfedora.org/ Also easy to use, but easier to break because many key RH repos don't focus on desktop users. Oh, and Steam on Fedora is LULz
Get the feel of these, and then you'll know better what and how. Those derivatives of the Debian non-free tree have the most support for desktop users and should work out of the box.
Gentoo, Arch are power user distros. Solus is also something for new users to avoid unless you strictly want to do grandma things like check facebook and send email. Slack has basically become the scientific tool distro over the last 6 years, and hardware support is tricky, plus it's an advanced user only system. Although TBF, Antegros makes Arch super easy, just not brand new user easy.
Everything else is really niche or server oriented.
A different OS is always different, but not necessarily difficult. It's as difficult as you want it to be. That's why I suggested the distros that I did, so you can just download and pretty much go. It's like learning a new language. Except most of the words are the same, half of the syntax is the same, but the objects in the culture are unfamiliar to you. The food is different, and people drive on the other side of the road.
When you try it. One step at a time and learn it. Don't do like some people and start deleting everything because you think you're making it faster by cutting out unused stuff. Just install the same way you would install windows by following prompts. And if you have any question for whatever distro you go with, google or ask here. I'll do my best.
I've been using some form of unix based distro since the 80s, and linux as a daily driver since the 90s. So chances are I can help with any distro, I just would prefer a new user actually start with a new user distro (and there is no shame in that, stuff like Mint is still fantastic and I run it on one of my machines that I don't care to fiddle with). I run Arch propper on all my daily systems, and if you install Arch(even Antergos/Manjero) as a newbie, I'm going to ignore you along with half of the community support.
Dis hur is Murica.... we use Windows and spake Englisch!
GODAMNIT DIS HUR IS MURICA