Advice On Repurposing Computer? - Linux User

[TheAndrewMan]

Hello,

 

My computer rig is sporting an AMD Athlon II X3 with an Nvidia GTX 460 and two HDD's. I want to convert it to a small home server. I plan to buy two 240 GB Samsung 860 EVO's, one for root and one for user. I was thinking I should downgrade the GPU since I won't be gaming on it anymore. Also, I'm concerned if I should take the heatsink and fan off the CPU, apply new thermal paste, and put a new heatsink and fan on it.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

[mahyar]

why a separate ssd for root?

yeah changing thermal paste

and definitely change that gtx 460 it is a power sucker 

[TheAndrewMan]

I guess I could just get one larger capacity SSD. You think the GeForce GT 1030 or the RX 550 would be good choices? I want something newer but less powerful than the GTX 460. Preferably single slot and low profile, but dual slot is okay.

 

I grew up using Mandrake, then Mandriva, and now Mageia.

[Kisai]

2 hours ago, TheAndrewMan said:

Hello,

 

My computer rig is sporting an AMD Athlon II X3 with an Nvidia GTX 460 and two HDD's. I want to convert it to a small home server. I plan to buy two 240 GB Samsung 860 EVO's, one for root and one for user. I was thinking I should downgrade the GPU since I won't be gaming on it anymore. Also, I'm concerned if I should take the heatsink and fan off the CPU, apply new thermal paste, and put a new heatsink and fan on it.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks,

 

Andrew

nVidia discontinued all drivers fore pre-Maxwell GPU's on laptops last year. nVidia no longer makes drivers for anything prior to Kepler for desktop GPU's

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3473/~/eol-windows-driver-support-for-legacy-products

 

Quote

Effective April 2018, Game Ready Driver upgrades, including performance enhancements, new features, and bug fixes, will be available only on Kepler, Maxwell, and Pascal series GPUs.  Critical security updates will be available on Fermi series GPUs through January 2019.

So every GPU prior to the Geforce 9xx series has no newer drivers for it. This means the Linux driver (which they generally kept in sync with the Windows version) likely has no support either.

 

nVidia currently lists the minimum GPU supported by their current drivers as being the 6xx models

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/168347/en-us

 

The last driver supported by the 4xx is 390.141

https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/168290/en-us

 

So if you're not gaming on it, pick up a 9xx, or 10xx card, preferably pre-owned.

 

[LogicalDrm]

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