a secondary linux build?

[ultra99]

I've been dual booting for some time now, Windows for mining and gaming and Linux for everything else. I'm deciding to to leave my main rig exclusively for mining + casual gaming and build a new mini-itx machine for Linux as my main productivity machine. I'm thinking of an AMD with built-in graphics?
What do you guys think?

 

Current specs: Ryzen 3900x, Aorus Master x570, 32GB DDR4 (4x 8GB, I can use 2 sticks for each build), 1TB nvme, 1TB m.2 ssd.

[Bombastinator]

50 minutes ago, ultra99 said:

I've been dual booting for some time now, Windows for mining and gaming and Linux for everything else. I'm deciding to to leave my main rig exclusively for mining + casual gaming and build a new mini-itx machine for Linux as my main productive. I'm thinking of an AMD with built-in graphics?
What do you guys think?

 

Current specs: Ryzen 3900x, Aorus Master x570, 32GB DDR4 (4x 8GB, I can use 2 sticks for each build), 1TB nvme, 1TB m.2 ssd.

Built in graphics with AMD means APU which means 1080p max and not necessarily a ton of performance there

[KaitouX]

47 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Built in graphics with AMD means APU which means 1080p max and not necessarily a ton of performance there

 

1 hour ago, ultra99 said:

I'm deciding to to leave my main rig exclusively for mining + casual gaming and build a new mini-itx machine for Linux as my main productive.

You can kinda assume he's going to do most GPU heavy workloads and gaming in the main rig, so there should be no issue with using the iGPU for higher resolutions.

[brob]

What sort of work is meant by "main productivity"?

[ultra99]

1 hour ago, brob said:

What sort of work is meant by "main productivity"?

Mostly writing and programming in python.

[ultra99]

7 hours ago, KaitouX said:

 

You can kinda assume he's going to do most GPU heavy workloads and gaming in the main rig, so there should be no issue with using the iGPU for higher resolutions.

exactly.

[Toasterdog54]

9 hours ago, ultra99 said:

Ryzen 3900x

iirc 3900x has no integrated graphics so youre gonna have to go with a cpu that says G after it. 5700G is pretty good price to performance for an apu rn

[KaitouX]

24 minutes ago, ultra99 said:

Mostly writing and programming in python.

It depends on what level of performance you want, but probably something like the i3 10100 would be good enough, if you want more CPU performance maybe look towards the i5 12600K or i7 12700K, if you don't care about the performance of the iGPU, i wouldn't look at the AMD options. The AMD APUs are usually weaker than the Intel alternatives(and AMD own without iGPU) when it comes to CPU performance.