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Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software

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Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> writes:

> Well I can say that I have a ryzen 7 2700X in my desktop and I am very happy 
> with it. I don't know what question specifically I can answer for you but I 
> have no complaints about it. 
>
> I would look for a motherboard with components(sound, sensors, network 
> controllers) that are well supported in Linux. 

Thanks. I am more inclined towards purchasing Ryzen 7.

deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> writes:

>> 3. I’ll also put these machine to serve local copy of all my data.

> whatever you take use raid. I use SSD when it needs faster write access. I
> use spinning disks for backup and data that is not read that often or does
> not need fast access. there were few thread around regarding storage here
> on the list AFAIK.

After reading all the responses till now, I feel that it is better to
put all the six GPUs in a single machine and save the cost of extra
motherboard. And use that saving for

2-SSDs, 2-HDDs; both pairs in RAID.

Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:

> On a price/performance basis, it's clear that AMD beats Intel at
> every price point.
>
> You should know that both Intel and AMD ship firmware blobs for
> their CPUs which are redistributable but not open source.

If I have no option then I’ll just go for it. Probably, we’ll have it
someday.

> AMD has more PCI lanes available than Intel, so motherboards can
> support more slots. 
>
> MSI, Gigabyte and ASUS, at least, sell extended-ATX motherboard
> with sufficient room between x16 slots to fit 3 double-width
> graphics cards. You may have trouble finding a suitable case.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try to assemble a case as well. Have
a friendly workshop nearby. :-)

> The AMD cards probably don't function without a firmware blob,
> even with otherwise open-source drivers. 

Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:

> Depends what you mean by "function" :) IIRC, my system with an RX-570
> would boot to console without the firmware packages installed, but X
> wouldn't start. I didn't experiment too much further to see how much
> functionality the card provided without its firmware.

"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> writes:

> There's a large thread going on about firmware elsewhere in Debian and
> on LWN.net :( Radeon RX580 card will almost certainly require the
> non-free firmware package - amdgpu from non-free. It may be that if
> you don't have that firmware in place that the cards won't work
> properly, though they should be recognised by the motherboard.

amdgpu is what I used when I was experimenting on crypto. And if there
are no options then probably I’ll have to live with it.

-- 
Regards,
Pankaj Jangid

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Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 06:30 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Steven Mainor <steve@degga.net> - 2021-01-22 08:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-22 19:20 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 10:00 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-22 12:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-01-22 16:10 +0100
  Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-22 23:50 +0100
    Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> - 2021-01-23 04:50 +0100
      Re: Help me setup home-office hardware with free software David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-01-23 07:00 +0100

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