Motherboard and graphics card recommendations for building a Linux Box

[Stephen Partington]

NVIDIA performance is best with their drivers. It also is one of the better
ways to use the extra compute centric features.

Intel graphics are now fully in the kernel so anything 2017 on should
require minimal effort.

AMD has made good progress towards their driver stack and software but i am
not as familiar with their current development.

At this point the fewer software dependant features the easier. The biggest
is on board soft raid. But so much of the rest works really well with an up
to date kernel and minimal tinkering.


If you want product recommendations knowing more about what you are
expecting to throw at the system would help.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 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?
>
> Cryptographics?
> Machine learning?
> Posting memes on facebook and trolling 2channel?
>
> 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.
>
> > On Mar 3, 2019, at 11:07 PM, Adam Mercer <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I planning on building a new machine fairly soon, I want the box to
> > primarily run Linux and I'd like to make sure that I can use as few
> > binary drivers as possible. Any recommendations for motherboards
> > etc...
> >
> > I last built a PC probably about 20 years ago and finding a board and
> > graphics card that supported Linux well was challenging (in fact I
> > needed to patch the kernel to support my graphics card ), hopefully
> > things are better these days.
> >
> > Not sure of the OS I'd be using yet, contenders are currently Ubuntu,
> > or Manjaro... depends on how adventurous I want to be.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Adam
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