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I'm thinking of building a PC - any advice? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My laptop is running out of storage space and I don't have anything I can remove anymore to increase it by much, so I'm thinking about building a pc. I'd also like to find a better gpu for doing video editing.

It will be the first one I've built, so I don't really know what I need. Also, does it matter for compatibility for Linux whether I go with AMD or Intel?

The high end of what I want to use it for is video editing with Kdenlive or Davinci Resolve, some modeling and animation in Blender, and some light gaming, like Minecraft or TUNIC.

I figure one of these guides might be useful, but I don't really know which.

Is there anything else I should know for setting up a PC to run Linux?

Edit: Maybe these guides from Logical Increments can help actually.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not sure if this would help, but I found this channel helpful for understanding the basics and mostly avoiding wrong parts. Also he has some videos were he explains why you should choose one part over another.

Scatter volt channel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Here's a video with some good builds at different price points. That should be a decent starting point.

https://youtu.be/8tUM-miOzBA?si=BNjOJeY3Qi_HbdyV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Go AM5. The 7600x3d is 300 bucks and nice

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (12 children)

you are getting advice that will make a good gaming pc but not a good workstation for what you said you're gonna do.

do the opposite of what most everyone in this thread is saying:

intel over amd (this could actually go either way depending on the price point), nvidia over amd, start at 32gb of ram and go up from there. prioritize cores over threads, sneak a rotational hard disk in, spend more on your power supply than you planned to.

plan on not using wayland.

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

Why should I plan on not using wayland? Is it because of the Nvidia support? I use Fedora normally so I'd have to install x11 after installation as Fedora recently dropped x11 support.