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I never got two cards being useful, alas. It is supposed to be possible with Nouveau but ...
Current (larger)Â screens are 1600x1200 so that would be the target.
> On 2 Aug 2017, at 14:02, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/08/17 10:06, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>> That all makes sense, but ...
>> I looked up the purchase - the main board; processor; current RAM was
>> bought in 2011.
>> Estimating it's running hours, they are similar to the MTBF.
>> So, it lacks some modern features, and the box is going back to the shop
>> for some electrical tests and at least a new mainboard; RAM; CPU set.
>> Most of the rest is younger and may yet be saved.
>>
>> i7 or AMD equivalent and 32 or 16 GBytes depending how hard I wince at
>> the quote I think.
>>
>> ... the AMD equivalent... Good stuff?
>>
>> Being GPT would account for Grub being unable to install in the MBR
>> perhaps. If so it could have said.
>
> To be fair it *did* work so the Grub2-efi component was initially fine
> in Stretch's preferred default of UEFI+GPT: when it started crashing you
> reset the firmware back to BIOS which effectively kicked the feet out
> from under the system and rendered it unbootable. You're going to run
> into the exact same issues with your new system by the way so now is
> probably a good time to start familiarising yourself with the whole
> modern way of doing things. Your new hardware may not even offer the
> option of falling back to BIOS mode (good!).
>
> As you presumably don't care about traditional Windows gaming single
> core maximum performance metrics, you are the perfect market for the new
> AMD Ryzen CPUs. Depending on how much you want to spend, I wouldn't
> worry too much about 16 vs 32 Gb of DDR4 RAM, that's a comparatively
> tiny cost. I'd be looking at the very soon to be released massively
> parallel AMD Threadripper CPU + X390 workstation motherboard platform if
> I were you: add a workstation class (not a lame 'consumer' GPU) graphics
> card, install ECC RAM and a NVME SSD and you'll be in business.
Or if youâd like a proper workstation build. Iâm preparing to sell off some really nice high end machines at reasonable prices - Its mostly because Iâve successfully consolidated my workloads onto a chunky VM server.
System 1 is a xeon based hackintosh in a corsair carbide cube case running on a pice M2 drive, 8GB ram , and ATI Radeon 7580 (3 at 1080 - good game perf). DVD, Nic, USB3, US82 , Modular gold spec PSU. Lots of room for expension - water cooled win and H55.
System 2. a dual cpu , quad core xeon (2009) Mac Pro (Mac 4,1 spec) , 12GB , 250GB SSD , CDRWDVD , Dual Nvidia GT120âs (drive 4 at 1600x1200), (when using windows,Linux will also use non apple EFI GFX cards (currently running with an RX480 to drive 2x4K displays)
System 3. (2013) Quad core i7 Asus 15â, 8GB , 240GB ssd, wifi(bgn) , NIC, Bluetooth,USB3 USB3,HDMI Out
All run Hackintosh or OSX, Windows 10 or Linux without any issues. These are very fast machines with min 8 cores at 2.2GHz. TB to 2.7 and 3.4.
If anyone is interested to make offers before they get to eBayâ. Iâm Happy to preload a main stream Linux distort either, Fedora 26, Centos or Debian. Or BSD (trueOS) if thats you thing.
>
> Cheers
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