<div dir="ltr">Thank you folks for the suggestion on the craigslist approach.<div>Where can I check compatibility with Linux for motherboards ?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I would NOT buy a new cpu from craigslist. It comes with no warranty and CPUs have infant mortality like hard drives. Unless you're replicating/replacing an existing/explicit system, buy cpu, ram, mobo from a dealer than can provide a warranty. Static damage is subtle and craigslist doesn't do dealer reputation tracking.<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 9:07:13 PM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com" target="_blank">savithari@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">As always, Thank You DJ.<div><br></div><div>I am not that concerned about the power aspect of this whole thing.</div><div><br></div><div>I found this CPU <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:medium"> </span><a href="https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/sop/d/intel-core-ighz-cpu/6284494809.html" class="m_7862562555015304853gmail-result-title m_7862562555015304853gmail-hdrlnk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Intel Core i7 2600 (3.8Ghz) CPU</a> for sale on craigslist.</div><div><br></div><div>This CPU has a Pass score of 8217. I presume purchasing the CPU on craigslist is safe in terms of reliability. </div><div><br></div><div>I have to purchase cooler, paste for the motherboard.</div><div><br></div><div>Where can I check compat issues of Motherboard with Linux ?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:33 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Look at other builds on other sites. Look at their parts list. Do you<br>
have all those things?<br>
Case, PSU, compatible video card, HDDs, cables, power cords, .... CPU<br>
thermal paste? Oh - and a CPU cooler? Some CPUs come with a cooler,<br>
others do not. Usually old CPU coolers cannot be used, but old ATX<br>
cases and ATX PSUs work fine, unless you have a $500 GPU that needs 2<br>
extra power connections to work.<br>
<br>
I have never needed more than 10G of RAM. My main VM server has 16G, but<br>
8G is always used for disk buffers. I think having more is a waste,<br>
unless it is cheap. DDR3 is fairly cheap. DDR4, not so much. My media<br>
center server (not a player) has 8G.<br>
<br>
OC is 100% optional. You only need a MB that supports it if you want to<br>
do it.<br>
<br>
Did you leave CPU performance overhead for the extra non-transcoding<br>
things you want? You might be able to assign specific CPUs to specific<br>
VMs, if that works on these AMD CPUs.<br>
<br>
Did you consider the CPU watts in your calculations? AMD has a history<br>
of using 30-50% more power. Is that acceptable? The newer Ryzen CPUs<br>
were 125, 95, and 65W (I think). I was specifically picking a 65W<br>
version that included a CPU cooler.<br>
<br>
I would search for Linux compatibility for that motherboard and whatever<br>
GPU you've got. Support for some older AMD Radeon GPUs has been dropped.<br>
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On 09/04/2017 06:02 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
> Need to pick your brains on finding the best CPU/MB/MEM combo. Please help.<br>
><br>
> Let me start off saying I am taking a cheap route.<br>
><br>
> Went to get Passmark of 5500 and above from<br>
> <a href="https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c<wbr>pu_list.php</a><br>
><br>
> Cheapest reasonable cpu at Microcenter with these ratings. Prices below<br>
> are at Microcenter.<br>
><br>
> Intel Core i3-7100 @ 3.90GHz 5895 $96<br>
> AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core 7509 $80<br>
> AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core 8942 $100<br>
><br>
> If I pick the cheapest one at $80, I work from there to motherboard on<br>
> pcpartpicker.<br>
><br>
> Here I see many, but what criterion for motherboard, Star ratings ?<br>
> Dont know if video is built in? I dont need video builtin since I have<br>
> vid card<br>
> 4 mem slots is good. Atleast 32G supported is a good thing to consider<br>
> right<br>
><br>
> I picked Gigabyte<br>
> (<a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/T69KHx/gigabyte-motherboard-ga78lmtusb3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pcpartpicker.com/prod<wbr>uct/T69KHx/gigabyte-motherboar<wbr>d-ga78lmtusb3</a>)<br>
> for $55, comments say not overclockable but CPU in microcenter is Black<br>
> Edition aka Overclockable, so need OC board right ? (cant find that info<br>
> on the summary page though for mother boards.)<br>
><br>
> From here I worked towards DDR3 2400 memory. This is Corsair 16G $120.<br>
><br>
> Is this pretty much it ?<br>
><br>
> My cost is coming to $260.<br>
><br>
> Is the approach I am taking correct ?<br>
><br>
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