About to build my first Linux PC :3

a year ago by BOLOID to c/linuxfurs

CPU: Ryzen 9 9900X
Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 90 SE
GPU: Radeon RX 9070XT
RAM: 2x32Gb DDR5 6000MHz
Mobo: ASRock 620AM PRO-A
SSD: Kingston 1Tb
Power: Fox Spirit HG 1000W

The choice of GPU is because this will be a Linux machine. I plan to install PopOS on it and use it for video editing, digital art, gaming, and streaming thereof.

I've had Mint installed on my side computers for a while, but i don't do anything complicated with them. This is the big one, the one where things can actually go wrong. Pray for me lmao

Schmuppes 11 points a year ago

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forgetful_fox 3 points a year ago

gekker

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BOLOID 1 point a year ago

I want to go on the record that i only spent a little bit more money for the brand and it's a good brand.

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andyburke 5 points a year ago

That looks like a fun rig.

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Truscape 3 points a year ago

Fire!

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LordAmplifier 3 points a year ago

Hell yeah, that looks like a sweet setup! Seeing newer PC parts always blows my mind, especially DDR5 RAM that casually goes up to (and beyond) 6,000 MHz.

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BOLOID 2 points a year ago

Having not built a PC recently, the size of the M.2 drive blew my mind, i didn't expect it to be so small. The CPU as well.

I was also surprised at how small the cooling heatsink is, but not in a good way, i think i may have undersized it haha

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LordAmplifier 1 point a year ago

Yes, the size of drives is insane these days. I always forget how small the M.2 in my PC is, but I had to remove it a while ago and was kinda surprised because it was even smaller than I thought it was. I don't know anything about heatsinks, but there are some small and some really big ones. I replaced my stock cooler (AMD Wraith Stealth) with a much bigger one (bequiet Pure Rock Slim 2), and it keeps the CPU 2-10 degrees cooler than the old one.

I hope you have (had?) a lot of fun building your PC! It's always a special day when you get to build one after spending who knows how much time researching parts :3

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BOLOID 2 points a year ago

Oh yeah it was emotional, i've been passively researching this for ever.

The build turned into a 10 hour stream. The motherboard's manual didn't make it clear which headers were for the front panel so i connected the power button wrong, that's where three of those hours went.

CachyOS gave me enough frustration that i'm reconsidering my decisions, but that's a problem for later haha

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LordAmplifier 1 point a year ago

Manuals really aren't what they used to be. My first motherboard came with a big manual that explained every last detail of it, but when I bought the same model again (because I managed to break the old one), it didn't even include a link to an online manual. I kept the old manual, fortunately, because figuring out the front panel without it would've sucked.

Looks like CachyOS is an Arch-based distro. I don't know anything about Arch because I've only ever used Ubuntu-based distros (mostly Mint), but from what I've heard, Arch users spend a lot of time reading the Arch wiki. Don't be afraid to try out different distros before you settle down!

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pigup 3 points a year ago

I just built dual Xeon machine and used two of those coolers. They're a but weak but do get the job done. Check the fan direction, I got it wrong at first.

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BOLOID 2 points a year ago

Yeah, i should have bought an AIO watercooling, but then i had a dad moment and said "i don't want water anywhere near muh PC i don't care how safe it is".

It'll be fiiiine

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yistdaj 2 points a year ago

Looks like a very good machine, hope it goes well!

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swab148 2 points a year ago

Congrats! What distro do you plan on installing?

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manefraim 4 points a year ago

Or... Read the post.

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swab148 4 points a year ago

Oh, duh. I woke up too early lol, my eyes glazed over that part.

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manefraim 2 points a year ago

You're great. Respect.

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pixel77 2 points a year ago

@BOLOID@pawb.social Pretty neat! Definitely interested in seeing how that 9070XT is on Linux, since it's a bit newer. o:

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Occultist0178 2 points a year ago

I have one with Fedora KDE, works like a charm for gaming

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spacebeef 2 points a year ago

I didn't manage to get this working with my 9070XT, I tried 3 or 4 different distros with KDE and screen just went black after boot menu. Tried gnome and no problem at all after that. First time trying out linux so not knowledgeable enough to understand what exactly the problem is.

But it does work like a charm for gaming once I managed to get into the os.

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BOLOID 2 points a year ago

According to my research, to run a 9070XT you need the latest Linux kernel and the latest Mesa drivers package. Some distros don't use the latest because they want more stability.

My planned distro (PopOS) is one of those, so i'll have to manually update. Haven't done anything like this before but it'll probably be fine.

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pixel77 1 point a year ago

Oh, sweet. I was looking at it, but was told it was currently underperforming on Linux for some reason. Must've been ironed out already.

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Occultist0178 1 point a year ago

In Expedition 33 for example I had similar fps as reported by hardware unboxed in W11, so I would argue that mine is performing well. But maybe it's game dependent?

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pixel77 1 point a year ago

Maybe. I'm currently on Arch Gnome, and have had some issues with Nvidia. (3070)

I don't know if it's an Nvidia issue, but Vesktop is having a weird black bar flickering on my screenshare, and it's like an 8/10 chance whenever I go to screenshare.

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BOLOID 1 point a year ago

According to my research, you need the latest Linux kernel and the latest Mesa. PopOS doesn't have them, so i'll update to them manually.

Thankfully the CPU does have integrated graphics and the motherboard does have an HDMI port, so even if it doesn't work out of the box, i'll at least be able to operate the computer for the time needed to get it working.

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Focal 2 points a year ago

Nice! I have a windows build that I recently decided to install Linux on myself. Nobara in my case. Have already done streaming and video production on it! Only issue is Nvidia doesn't always play nice.

Which video editor are you gonna use?

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BOLOID 1 point a year ago

I've been learning DaVinci Resolve. I wouldn't recommend anything else whether it's Windows or Linux, but it happens to be natively compatible with Linux.

Admittedly though i haven't actually used Premiere because i didn't make it past the installation process. The only video editor that i've spent time in aside from Resolve was Kdenlive, which is clearly not up to par.

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Focal 1 point a year ago

I used premiere a lot when I had windows. Great program (begrudgingly) that crashes too often. After swapping to Linux, i also jumped to DaVinci. It's different, but also really good. There are some limitations in the Linux version, especially when it comes to audio, and I had to change my game recording setup a bit, but once those kinks were ironed out, it was all good!

I wish you the best of luck, friend! You're going to have a blast

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