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01-23-2013 09:00 AM |
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Originally Posted by Cityscape
(Post 4875656)
This is a family desktop ny brother & I are building and he is a photographer and does video editing. So a budget gamer card is what we need and I think the 650 fits the bill! And we found a great sale on one. :D
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I wouldnt just hope or guess that the GPU will be used.......
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Originally Posted by 273
(Post 4875669)
My NVIDIA GT 640 required the usual driver changes to non-free and some changes using nvidia-settings. I'm used to it though as I run two displays and I found that only running a card that's about couple of years old through one display will tend to work without some messing around. The GTX's are the same generation and I'd expect them to be supported the same, despite my card's relative puniness. My experience is that, though you might need to get them from NVIDIA themselves, the NVIDIA Linux drivers are good and current.
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I wouldnt really call the GTX 6XX cards 'the same generation' as the GT 6XX cards. Over half the GT 6XX cards are rebranded GT 4XX or GT 5XX cards.
The rebranding alone is enough to cause troubles with nouveau and the closed drivers. As far as the closed drivers go, GTX 650 needs newer (304.51+) drivers than the GT 6XX cards (mostly supported from 295.53 onward, though made harder to know for sure by nVidias infuriating 'rebranding').
I havent checked with nouveau, but I'd suspect that most GT 6XX cards will run with nouveau versions dating from 05-2012 onward, GTX 650/650 Ti will need drivers from at least 10-2012 or later...and I wouldnt be suprised if it was a fair bit later, the GTX 650s are all G'K'epler 10X chips. The kepler architecture is new enough to have problems with nouveau.
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Originally Posted by Cityscape
(Post 4875656)
Great point! The board you suggest would be fine and I'd save $45 that I could put towards maybe an SSD or something. My original idea was to not go cheap on the mobo or CPU since they are not easy to upgrade. I already bought an AMD FX 1850 CPU, partly because I got a free $80 liquid cooling kit with it.
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Oh dear.....the FX-8350s are a better chip, and the water cooling you get with the FX-8XXX chips is nice for social cachet, but fairly crap if compared to 'real' water cooling...like the 'water cooling kits' the FX-8XXX water cooling can be beatern on all fronts by good air cooling.
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Originally Posted by Cityscape
(Post 4875656)
I was looking at the comments for a Gigabyte board on Newegg that has the same LAN as the Asrock board you mentioned and this was their comment: "The included Realtek 8111E LAN chip does not work in most Linux distros, even very recent ones." However some other people had it run fine.
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Newegg reviews arent worth the time to look at them in 99%+ of cases.
IIRC I've used a 8111E with linux and it was fine...havent got the board here to check with though so I'm not 100% sure it was 8111E. |
