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  1. Yeah I just wanted to hear what you guys think also. I'm thinking the Gigabyte Aorus. It's like €940 atm.
  2. Oh no the nVidia is going to Windows. I'll be using the RX 460 for Linux. AMD has much better support for Linux now anyway, open source driver embedded in the Kernel.
  3. Because dual booting doesn't really work well. You need 2 full OSes and you are probably almost never going to use one of them because you are using the other and don't really want to reboot. I really really REALLY don't like Windows, especially after Windows 10 so I much prefer this setup. It works well for me, although I could go for a little more RAM tbh.
  4. Well I like to future proof and I have the money for the Ti. The thing is, as you can see from my signature, I have a weird setup and I'm not sure if I'm going to be getting all the juice out of it all the time. Because I'm going to be passing the Ti through to the Windows VM but mostly use Linux with the 460(which I don't know how well can handle 2k either).
  5. You think it's worth the extra €€€ huh?
  6. Yeah that's why I was thinking maybe get a 1080/1080Ti now and in case it's worth it, sell it and buy a Volta. But should I get a 1080Ti or is it not worth the money?
  7. I am planning to buy a 1440p(2k) monitor 144Hz and I would like recommendations on the GPU I should buy. I am currently running an RX 460(was a temporary replacement for a GTX 580 that died on me in December) and I am thinking of upgrading to a 1080 or a 1080Ti. The problem is, there is a cost difference and Volta are coming early next year(probably before Q3). The 1080 is about €500-600 and the 1080Ti is about €800 where I live. What do you guys think would be best to get right now for 2k 144fps gaming?
  8. So I'm making this topic because I heard @Slick wants to switch to Linux as his primary OS and use Windows only for games and other things that don't work well on Linux. I decided to do the same thing right after the Windows 10 launch late 2015, early 2016. I was mostly inspired by Linus' 7 Gamers, 1 CPU video. However, I didn't want to use something like Unraid for a simple home PC, so I looked around and found out I could just do it on any normal Linux distribution through KVM. What you are going to need: A CPU with IOMMU (Intel VT-d, AMD-Vi) 2xGPUs (1 of them can be an iGPU), 1 for the host Linux OS and 1 for Windows VM Any modern Linux distribution with proprietary drivers, preferably something based on Debian, Arch or Fedora. Virt-manager Time to fiddle around with it. Optional: Synergy 2xMonitors A second keyboard/mouse to setup everything easily, which will be replaced by Synergy. I've been using it for quite some time now and it's working pretty good. At first I was using an nVidia GTX 580 for my VM but it died on me recently, so I switched to a temporary RX 460 until I can get my hands on a more powerful GPU. For the Linux host I am using a GTX 260, not a very good choice since it is not supported by modern nVidia drivers. I'm running any game that works on Linux, through Steam and I just boot up the Windows VM to run everything else. You can even stream the Windows only games on the Linux host through Steam, but I don't know how well that will work with FPS, Online games and such. For the VM, I was originally using Windows 10 LTSB N, but after switching to RX 460 I've had driver issues with Windows 10 so I switched back to Windows 8.1. You can find a very good tutorial(for Arch and Debian distros) here, although half of the stuff explained there can be done through Virt-manager instead, which makes it much easier. I can also write a small tutorial if people want it.
  9. Currently using a GTX 580. Apart from the obvious upgrade reasons, I am running Linux on my daily driver and I want to test the performance of the new AMDGPU driver.
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