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How to choose the best Linux hardware for PC Building? (linux-hardware.org)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I see the raise of popularity of Linux laptops so the hardware compatibility is ready out of the box. However I wonder how would I build PC right know that has budget - high end specification. For now I'm thinking

Case: does not matter
Fans: does not matter
PSU: does not matter
RAM: does not matter I guess?
Disks: does not matter I guess?
CPU: AMD / Intel - does not matter but I would prefer AMD
GPU: AMD / Intel / Nvidia - for gaming and Wayland - AMD, for AI, ML, CUDA and other first supported technologies - Nvidia.

And now the most confusing part for me - motherboard... Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports "high end" hardware?

Let's just say also a purpose of this Linux PC. Choose any of these

Blender 3D Animation rendering
Gaming
Local LLM running

If you have some good resources on this also let me know.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This only matters if you are running large models. If you stick with Mistral sized models you don't need nearly as much hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These days, there are amazing "middle sized" models like Qwen 14B, InternLM 20B and Mistral/Codestral 22B that are such a massive step over 7B-9B ones you can kinda run on CPU. And there are even 7Bs that support a really long context now.

IMO its worth reaching for >6GB of VRAM if LLM running is a consideration at all.