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.
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.
Hmm I’ve got a similar setup. TV only on and used when I want it for certain things like rhythm games. Its not a great TV and 4k60 is its max but that seems accurate based on mangohud.
3 monitors: 1 display port, 2dvi Optional HDMI TV.
Check your cable perhaps, but also the HDMI forum sucks and prevented AMDs open source driver (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/ )for proper 2.1 HDMI support. Additionally many TVs have a “gamemode” or low latency mode that might help.
That said if you mean your system itself is struggling and not the display on the TV, I don’t have a clue what it would be.