advice on building a high performance linux computer

[Matthias Lee]

My advice would be:
- NVIDIA GPU because they work very well, Nvidia is invested in this market
now, as much as Linus doesn't like them(because their drivers are closed
source) they have been doing a lot of good for the linux world lately. Also
I believe Nvidia and Valve have worked together a bit to make at least
steam work well with Nvidia. (source: I work with them under linux everyday
for GPGPU things)

- If you are building a system from scratch, it is not much of a concern.
UEFI & secure boot is mostly a problem of prebuilt machines since the
manufacturer will lock everything down. In my opinion, Ubuntu/Mint/Debian
is all very similar, with the exception of the Desktop Environment. Is the
person this is destined for relatively new to Linux? Ubuntu has the best
community coverage(just and opinion, don't have me Mint fans)

- I have no experience with that particular MB, but as long as it has
plenty of RAM slots, SATA ports and PCI-e, I think it will do just fine.

- I tend to stick the majority of my system files on an SSD and then stick
the homedirs on a spinning disk

Cheers,

Maze


On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net> wrote:

>
> it has been over 5 years since I built a system from scratch and the local
> store I used for advice has gone out of business.
>
> one of my college age friends is going to build a computer and asked me
> for tips. he wants to use linux but us interested in gaming.
>
> if you are building a system from scratch and planning to install one of
> the flavors of Ubuntu or the related Mint,  what concerns do you have about
> UEFI? The reading I have done online does not make it clear to me whether
> motherboards and cpus come with this pre configured.
>
> also, what about the availability of video drivers in determining whether
> to chose an nvidia graphics card vs an ATI card?
>
> experience with an msi970 gaming atx amd3 motherboard?
>
> using solid state (ssd) drive rather than traditional disk drive?
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