Sereiya

I Agree. "Everything was at peace. Then the PUBG nation attacked."

Don't expect many useful tips after questioning the knowledge of people who tried to help you - especially after implying the usual "Nvidia is generally better than AMD" fan mud-fighting stuff doing so. ? You really messed up in this thread.

Yeah, because they were way behind in the past years. Using a 5700 XT myself. There's no reason not to go team red unless you really want (and can afford) the most powerful card on the market. It also gives you the option to buy a Freesync monitor later, which usually are way cheaper than G-Sync. They also pair great with the current mid-range king CPU (Ryzen 5 3600). ?

Not for me? There is the 1660 on the top if being sorted by user rating. If I sort by value the RX 570 is at the top.

Yes, your CPU hitting 100°C is neither healthy nor good for performance. It probably clocks itself down way under its base clock to avoid cooking itself. I definitely wouldn't push such an old CPU like that if you want to still use it for a while. Regarding your video card: As long as only its fan is spinning fast and not the whole card with the motherboard attached to it you're probably fine. Just install GPU-Z and give us its exakt name and sensor readings after 10min of Furmark / MSI Kombustor running, then we can tell you more about that too.

With Freesync / G-Sync? Or powerful enough for smooth 60fps with Vsync on?

Thanks for answering. I actually already got my machine to work properly. It's based on Gigabytes X570 Aorus Pro, the Ryzen 7 3700X, a 5700 XT for passthrough, a GTX 960 for host ('cause I already had that one - have to use the nouveau driver though because of that pesky freeze- / stutterproblem caused by Nvidia's driver which still gave me bad performance after deleting the corner-option in my system settings) and plenty of RAM. I either was incredibly lucky, AMDs driver support for Linux is way better than Intels (which isn't really much of a secret, is it?) or things improved a lot since you built your system. I don't want to assume Vt-d being worse than AMD-V at this point since I can't test it. I'm passing through my (only) mouse and keyboard, making use of some qemu commandline options and the hardcoded CTRL + CTRL hotkey for switching from host to guest and vice versa. I also passthrough my sound this way and let qemu send it directly to pulseaudio almost without any latency (it shows up as just another program making sound). It has to match pulseaudio's standard settings, of course. (in case you wonder: using arguments (arg) instead of environment variables (env) is QEMUs new standard, you don't need to export those variables on your host anymore. Still worked great though.) For the switchable passthrough of my input devices to work properly I had to add two VirtIO devices before the standard PS/2 devices so the guest gets something more reliable to work with. <domain xmlns:qemu="http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0" type="kvm"> [...] <disk type="block" device="disk"> <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="none" io="threads"/> <source dev="/dev/sdc"/> <target dev="sdc" bus="sata"/> <shareable/> <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="0" unit="2"/> </disk> [...] <input type="mouse" bus="virtio"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x0e" function="0x0"/> </input> <input type="keyboard" bus="virtio"> <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x00" slot="0x0f" function="0x0"/> </input> <input type="mouse" bus="ps2"/> <input type="keyboard" bus="ps2"/> [...] <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value="-object"/> <qemu:arg value="input-linux,id=mouse1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-A....._G3-event-mouse"/> <qemu:arg value="-object"/> <qemu:arg value="input-linux,id=kbd1,evdev=/dev/input/by-id/usb-CM_Storm_Keyboard_--_Trigger_Z_gaming-event-kbd,grab_all=on,repeat=on"/> <qemu:arg value="-audiodev"/> <qemu:arg value="id=pa,driver=pa,in.fixed-settings=on,in.frequency=48000,in.format=s32,in.channels=2,server=/run/user/1001/pulse/native"/> </qemu:commandline> </domain> It's also highly advisable to set the EA-modes of every virtual hard drive to "threads", otherwise QEMU will try to process all the I/O in the same thread, possibly causing input lag. I'm not sure if it's actually necessary if you pass your HDD through rawly (directly pointing at /dev/sdx), but it had no impact on its performance, so I did it anyway. The passthrough also worked quite well, almost every single device on the X570 Aorus Pro got their own IOMMU group. AMD / Sapphire even put the HDMI audio device on their 5700 XT in an own group for whatever reason - never tinkered with that though. As far as I could see the board also got at least 2 different USB controllers, if not 3. Since there are three 3.1 (one being USB-C), three 3.0 and four 2.0 USB ports on the back panel with 4 front USB headers (2x 3.0) onboard, there surely is at least one controller I could passthrough. Didn't try though since I got everything I want in that Windows machine. Since the GTX 960 also appears as a device with their own IOMMU group (together with its audio device though) I can confirm that the first two PCIe 16x slots (running 2x 8-lanes) of this board are definitely working great for gaming VMs. the GTX 960 in the second slot showed up as PCIe 1.0 x8 in UEFI when I configured it, which was kinda weird - but didn't annoyed me too much since the 5700 XT gets 4.0 x8 being the high-performance card in this system. The thing I definitely know I was lucky was the network working with their standard settings being set to macvtap (device e1000e, source-mode bridged). It just worked out of the box. I only had to use pci-passthrough for the GPU. Everything else worked (after some tweaking) using vfio, libvirtd, qemu/kvm, virt-manager. My distro of choice was Arch Linux, using their kernel how it comes. The only problem that is currently unfixable and somewhat annoying is the inability to shutdown and restart the virtual machine because of the "Unknown PCI header type 127" kernel/driver bug with AMD GPUs. Once the VM runs I usually don't shut it down, having Win10 configured to do as less as I can command it to do. My Ryzen is giving me more than enough power to do so until gnif got his patch working for my card. Performancewise I can't really tell the difference to my native Win10 machine. Games like PUBG, Trackmania 2, NieR:Automata, GTA5 or FAF work flawlessly. I even get my ~120fps @ 3840x2400 in Rocket League using VSR (1920x1200 16:10 display). Didn't run benchmarks yet, but from everything I see I can't tell the difference until I see the 7 cores and 14 threads of a "3700X Eight-Core Processor" in Windows' Taskmanager. So... yeah, works great for me. I actually started writing on a full Beginner's Guide for all of this since it worked so well for me, from picking your parts to having the Win10 Gaming VM running on a self-configured Arch Linux. Will take a while to complete that though, since I aim to explain every single step & command so people new to Linux actually know what they're copy-pasting. ?

After talking about my upcoming new PC build a friend told me that Intels Virtualization technology (Vt-d / Vt-X) is way faster than AMDs (V / Vi), and that if I want to pass a PCIe device through to a virtual Win10 guest system, I would get a hefty performance penalty on AMD because their Ryzens are not designed to directly access/control IOMMU groups and that I HAVE to get an Intel system to avoid those problems. There were some numbers during the conversation, ranging between "about 90% of possible fps on AMD, maybe less" and "at least 30% performance loss on AMD". Though I find one forum post on tomshardware with the "best answer" claiming Intel is "better" with IOMMU, I can't find any reliable data on that topic, especially if it comes to PCI-passthrough. I never heard about any noticable performance differences between team Red and team Blue regarding virtualization myself, which is why I planed to go for a Ryzen 7 / X570 based system on Arch Linux, including a Win10 guest system with a 5700 XT passed through for games. Hope you can help me out here, I really don't want to buy unsuitable hardware.

I'm planing to build a new system to finally "fully" switch to Linux, with a higher-end GPU passed through a virtual Windows 10 machine. Does someone know whether or not the "Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro" got separate IOMMU groups for all their connected devices? Though I just need one GPU to be passed through at the moment it would be highly convenient for future upgrade to also have the (then PCIe) M.2 SSDs in separate groups (if that's actually possible). Don't really want to order a >260€ board before knowing it will work at the end. Other boards are only an option as long as they got 8 lanes on the second PCIe 16x slot (most of the boards only give you 4). Though I only need one PCIe slot with a dedicated IOMMU group I'd like to have the better card in the first slot (which sometimes happen to be in the same group as the CPU) since most case designs expect the biggest card to be up there. System I'm planing to build (green = already owned): CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X (Stock cooler for now) GPU: Gigabyte GTX 960 (Linux host), RX 5700 XT (Win Guest, third party design as soon as they're on the market) RAM: 2x 16GB DDR4-3200mhz CL16 G.Skill RipJaws V Black Board: ?? Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro ?? PSU: FSP Aurum CM 750W SSD: 128gb M.2 WD Green, 480gb SATA Mushkin Triactor (Win10 Guest) HDD: 1x 1TB Hitachi HGST, 2x 2TB Seagate (Soft RAID 1), 1x 4TB Seagate (Win10 Guest) - (all of them are 7200rpm) Case: AeroCool Aero-500G RGB Various other stuff (DVD Drive for old Games, more fans, fan controller, RGB etc.) Main OS: Probably Arch Linux... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Any advice is highly appreciated. ?

Looking for an ultrawide monitor with 1440p, >=100hz, Freesync + LFC and ~1800R curve at max. 800€ (around 950$), I found this new monitor coming up. The data sheet looks sexy (especially the HDR10 feature, even though some critics say they've no idea how it should work with that display), but I'm wondering what you guys are thinking. I'll use it mostly for gaming and movies or stuff like coding. Was also looking at the Philips 349X7FJEW, but the BenQ seems to be better. I don't really want to import displays, especially because of the 21% taxes I'd have to pay and the problematic support in case of problems like dead pixels. Any tips or suggestions?

My ITX build back in 2014 desperately needed more cooling, so I bought a Dremel and solved this problem by completely fucking up the Lian Li TU-200 case. And I added more lights, because damn, who needs ceiling lamps? Southbridge still got roasted 6 months after that, so I had to maltreat a Zalman cooler onto the chip. Actually had to cut 50% of the fins so it would fit next to the CPU cooler. Also glued 4x 40mm fans on the back of the case (you can see them glowing blue behind the PSU), so in the end I had 11 fans in total. Since then it works like a charm!