Motherboard and graphics card recommendations for building a Linux Box

Ed plug at 0x1b.com
Mon Mar 4 18:33:46 MST 2019


I prefer an AMD based motherboard, more cores is important with
containers, and the new Nvidia 1660 is looking good - more research is
needed beyond that - also https://camelcamelcamel.com  can be helpful.

I don't think Intel boxen (nucs) are upgradable very much.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 4:52 PM Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 7:47 AM Aaron Jones <retro64xyz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Times have changed. Most stuff works out of the box with little tinkering. What do you plan to do with the box?
>
> Good to hear. It'll be mostly used for development work, so I'll be
> using Docker and Vagrant quite a bit. I'll probably be doing a bit of
> gaming on the box, nothing fancy but I'd like a reasonable graphics
> card.
>
> > Space requirements?
> >
> > I use multiple Intel NUCS and I love them but if you are looking for a behemoth box to support your 50 card collection of ASICS, well I can point you that way too.
>
> I'd been looking at NUCS but didn't know how upgradable they were.
>
> Cheers
>
> Adam
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