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the art of squirt.
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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
Plus it's for your kid anyways, so fuck him and his l33t specs
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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.
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.
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yeah f him.. da fuck needs a j.o.b
i can buy another r7 360.. but id wait until i can find one used.. i dont really want to put much money in the build.. i wonder what kind of performance a r7 360 and hd 7750 in crossfirex would be like.. is that even possible.. i know nothing of this shat.. but if it would work.. id just buy me a newer/used card.. probably a 1050ti.. a rx 460 is about 114 dollar aud on sale.. normally 150 ish AUD.. but its only a lil bit better than a r7 360.. ti is about 200 aud
1050ti is about 50% jump in da synthetics speeds.. and low power... i still havent found a hp psu upgrade for my hp z400 without having to mod. i actually stopped looking.... so lower power is goods..
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id expect him to start watching porn at 99 fps anytime now.. 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 from win sooner than later..
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Okay, so a 7750 is GCN1, which means you can run the AMDGPU-PRO driver on a modern kernel. The xorg (open source driver) is pretty good too, but no Vulkan if he wants to play vulkan games.
If you want to run xwayland/wayland(graphics compositing) you'll need to jump through some hoops with nvidia proprietary drivers on new kernels. You don't want to start off on an old kernel. But if you want to stick with standard xorg setups, then it might be the best out of the box experience right now. As someone learning, IDK why you want to run wayland, but some people do. IMO only one distro does wayland right out of the box for new users anyways, and in that case, anything would work okay.
If you want to run xwayland/wayland(graphics compositing) you'll need to jump through some hoops with nvidia proprietary drivers on new kernels. You don't want to start off on an old kernel. But if you want to stick with standard xorg setups, then it might be the best out of the box experience right now. As someone learning, IDK why you want to run wayland, but some people do. IMO only one distro does wayland right out of the box for new users anyways, and in that case, anything would work okay.
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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.
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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
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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
ill see 8k in 2045 if im still alive.. way before oz gets its interwebs in checks... i dont plan on 4k for 5-10 years as is..
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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?
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They'll work with a lil finesse, but if you're following along, the question is "what's the point?"
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smoke em if ya got em?!?
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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.
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.
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damn mane... you making linux sound like i needz to be a mechanic so i can service and repair my own cars.. but damn im tired of ms and they ways... but windows games and other softwarez i gots..
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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.
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.
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Dis hur is Murica.... we use Windows and spake Englisch!
GODAMNIT DIS HUR IS MURICA
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dis hurr is e-internationulz watas..
its also oz and we like junk...
on a pc/part search the past day.. idk y.. i could still tear apart me old i3.. but me gave it to da wife for office/word functionality shat... but she only uses it a handful of times a month.. she be on a tablet mo often...
sooo.. juss looking.. idk what gpu i want for da old build.. i should have bought those pair of 660 ti's months ago.. shit went cheap for aud..oh yeah dat p55 board dont support sli... dat y... in ways once i oc the x3470 and add a gpu.. it will be more game able than my current z400 wiff its current psu limitations.. ...i need to fix that... but at the same time i reallly havent been playing many games.. so whatevers
just looking for old systems again... looking for da deals.. y? idk.. mo parts i guess.. too bad they are dated parts.. i could have a room dedicated to sweet 6-12 yr old rigs maxing bs games of their time.... i need to stop it mane.. but i needzz a used hp z800
i may put the z200 back together and sell it with a 1st gen i3/5/7.. they can be had fairly cheap..i thought i had a spare one but i cant find it.. would pair it with another old quadro nvs i gots.. i probably should get me money backs that i spent on the z200.. i already sold the quadro 600 it came wiff.. add a 20 dollar cpu and sell da bitch for 100 bucks.. ill basically have me x3470 fo free.. dat was the plan.. just havent got around to it.. dem x3470 chips be getting 89-120 aud in oz still.. i got my fru dat used system to makes sures i gotz a working ones and to flip the skeleton.. afta selling the quadro i got the chip n the rest of the system still less than market value..
new goal.. stop with the old shitty tech collection..well unless i come across a cheap x58 sabertooth.. imma start setting change to the side for a future z800-820-840.. cause dis fuck...this used old fuckn xeon n z400 will still be cranking out fps for years.. damn im bored.. i need a motherfucking job..
sorry diary entry will continue wiff me other diary
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y me want mo hp z's... hp z's are da shizzles..
i need dat 12 core 24 thread z800.. used... primary use... gs:go...
dis be da z840
[video=youtube;sHYIeCLtDz8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYIeCLtDz8[/video]
i need dat 12 core 24 thread z800.. used... primary use... gs:go...
dis be da z840
[video=youtube;sHYIeCLtDz8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYIeCLtDz8[/video]
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