New Linux Gaming PC Build

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Budget (including currency): around 1,250 USD

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Light code editing and gaming. (DOOM Eternal, MCC, Team Fortress, ect.)

Other details

 I’ll be running Fedora Linux.

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I’d like to upgrade because I want to run heavier workloads. I love my laptop, but it isn’t delivering as much performance as I need. 
 

EDIT: I’ve got a small list of parts set out, but I’d like to see what people recommend before I invest in anything.

[Penpilot]

do you care about aesthetics? what is MCC? the only MCC i know of is Minecraft championship. what resolution do you want to play at? and since you run linux, do you mind me pairing you up with a intel A750?

 

here is what i mad with the info-

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LrhLZw

good CPU, good GPU decent storage and good upgradability. mot much to say. perfectlf.... fine

[evievi]

3 hours ago, shreshta said:

do you care about aesthetics? what is MCC? the only MCC i know of is Minecraft championship. what resolution do you want to play at? and since you run linux, do you mind me pairing you up with a intel A750?

 

here is what i mad with the info-

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LrhLZw

good CPU, good GPU decent storage and good upgradability. mot much to say. perfectlf.... fine

I think MCC is probably Halo Master Chief Collection, a bunch of remastered Halo games that has pretty low requirements to run: 

 

[evievi]

As some other people have suggested, because you're looking for linux gaming, AMD cards are probably your best bet because generally they work better in Linux. Polaris Cards and RDNA2 cards are known to be generally be the best in terms of linux compatibility so I would go for either of those. That's not to say NVIDIA GPUs won't work, I definitely have friends who run linux distros on nvidia (mostly 9 or 10-series cards).

 

I noticed that you also said you'd be doing some light coding- what languages would you be working in? Obviously if you want to write some CUDA you'll need an nvidia gpu, but a lot of other workloads will benefit from nvidia. If you're using python with pandas and machine learning you probably will want to use an nvidia gpu and use nvidia's cuda distribution of pandas and numpy. This would also apply if you were using Julia or languages that use LLVM that tend to have high CUDA support. If you're just doing web development in javascript then yeah for development you'd just want integrated graphics and at least 16gb ram and 6+ cpu cores for multitasking between stackoverflow tabs and fast compilation/load times.

 

Considering also that your current gaming needs are pretty low GPU wise, you might be able to push your budget under $1000 if you skip on an rx 6650 and buy a used rx 580 for around $90-100. The RX 580 is slightly better than a 6500xt so you'd be getting relatively that level of performance except with more PCI express bandwidth and more VRAM.

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MCC is master chief collection.

 

I'd like to use a Corsair 4000D as my case.

 

Those parts seem pretty nice.. Thank you. Would you like to see an earlier list I made?

 

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Oh yeah! On my concept list I had a 6700 XT as my GPU.

 

Ill probably be doing very low-level game development and some web development. I am also planning on trying to get into some sort of Linux Development, so that'd be C.

 

I want this PC to be for everything that I'd need to do. Gaming, programming, web browsing, ect.

 

My list was -

Corsair 4000D

Asus prime b550-plus AM4

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8 core 3.8 GHz

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 gb ddr4 3200

XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB GDDR6 (The 6950 is the same price at microcenter right now.)

A samsung m.2

and I can use a corsair 750w psu i have laying around

 

That brought me up to around 1300 USD

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21 minutes ago, evievi said:

As some other people have suggested, because you're looking for linux gaming, AMD cards are probably your best bet because generally they work better in Linux. Polaris Cards and RDNA2 cards are known to be generally be the best in terms of linux compatibility so I would go for either of those. That's not to say NVIDIA GPUs won't work, I definitely have friends who run linux distros on nvidia (mostly 9 or 10-series cards).

 

I noticed that you also said you'd be doing some light coding- what languages would you be working in? Obviously if you want to write some CUDA you'll need an nvidia gpu, but a lot of other workloads will benefit from nvidia. If you're using python with pandas and machine learning you probably will want to use an nvidia gpu and use nvidia's cuda distribution of pandas and numpy. This would also apply if you were using Julia or languages that use LLVM that tend to have high CUDA support. If you're just doing web development in javascript then yeah for development you'd just want integrated graphics and at least 16gb ram and 6+ cpu cores for multitasking between stackoverflow tabs and fast compilation/load times.

 

Considering also that your current gaming needs are pretty low GPU wise, you might be able to push your budget under $1000 if you skip on an rx 6650 and buy a used rx 580 for around $90-100. The RX 580 is slightly better than a 6500xt so you'd be getting relatively that level of performance except with more PCI express bandwidth and more VRAM.

All righty! I'll keep that in mind.... Thank you!

 

 I am only considering 6700 because I'd like it to be able to play nearly all games I throw at it at at least 60 FPS.

Edit-

I am currently on an 8th gen mobile core i7 with an Nvidia quadro P600… 

[evievi]

29 minutes ago, HonkHOnkGoose246857 said:

Oh yeah! On my concept list I had a 6700 XT as my GPU.

 

Ill probably be doing very low-level game development and some web development. I am also planning on trying to get into some sort of Linux Development, so that'd be C.

 

I want this PC to be for everything that I'd need to do. Gaming, programming, web browsing, ect.

 

My list was -

Corsair 4000D

Asus prime b550-plus AM4

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8 core 3.8 GHz

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 gb ddr4 3200

XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB GDDR6 (The 6950 is the same price at microcenter right now.)

A samsung m.2

and I can use a corsair 750w psu i have laying around

 

That brought me up to around 1300 USD

Yep sounds like you will probably not benefit from CUDA at all, so an AMD card makes sense for you then. If you go AM4, the 5700G is a good choice but I might spend the extra $10 on a 5700x for the 32MB L3 cache. Intel QuickSync is often why you justify an iGPU for Intel CPUs but AMD's equivalent only works on Windows. That means in Linux the integrated GPU will just be sitting there doing nothing. Better use of your $ to get the extra L3 cache even if it'll only occasionally help you out. Everything else I generally agree with. Depending on how much your development needs scale up you could go for 32gb of ram but you could always sell and buy a 32gb kit down the line.

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2 minutes ago, evievi said:

Yep sounds like you will probably not benefit from CUDA at all, so an AMD card makes sense for you then. If you go AM4, the 5700G is a good choice but I might spend the extra $10 on a 5700x for the 32MB L3 cache. Intel QuickSync is often why you justify an iGPU for Intel CPUs but AMD's equivalent only works on Windows. That means in Linux the integrated GPU will just be sitting there doing nothing. Better use of your $ to get the extra L3 cache even if it'll only occasionally help you out. Everything else I generally agree with. Depending on how much your development needs scale up you could go for 32gb of ram but you could always sell and buy a 32gb kit down the line.

All righty!! Thanks!! This has been very helpful!! I’ll keep that in mind

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22 hours ago, HonkHOnkGoose246857 said:

Oh yeah! On my concept list I had a 6700 XT as my GPU.

 

Ill probably be doing very low-level game development and some web development. I am also planning on trying to get into some sort of Linux Development, so that'd be C.

 

I want this PC to be for everything that I'd need to do. Gaming, programming, web browsing, ect.

 

My list was -

Corsair 4000D

Asus prime b550-plus AM4

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G 8 core 3.8 GHz

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 gb ddr4 3200

XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB GDDR6 (The 6950 is the same price at microcenter right now.)

A samsung m.2

and I can use a corsair 750w psu i have laying around

 

That brought me up to around 1300 USD

Other than switching that 5700G for a 5700 or 5700x (go for whatever is cheaper) as others have already mentioned, this build should work flawlessly out of the box for what you want to do.