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.
The build looks solid to me, with the caveat that I don’t keep up with hardware unless I need to buy it. So, I’m not super knowledgeable about what parts are specifically the best and as to why, but I’ve been on an all AMD linux only gaming rig for a few years now and it works really well. I’d have to recommend sticking with all AMD solely so you have to do less (if any) fussing with drivers. All distros and installs are not the same, but most should have you situated and in a good place.
I’ve been using Plasma 6 and Wayland since Plasma 6 was stable. IMO, you shouldn’t have any issues using Wayland in todays landscape.
It has gotten a LOT better, but there are still niche cases.
I have a TV hooked up via HDMI and can only output 4K30Hz on Wayland and my system starts chugging. With X11 I can do 60Hz no problem.
I will need to take a hard look if I will go for Nvidia or AMD when I build a new system in a few weeks/months.