I understand that AMD drivers are open source and less of a hassle to work compared to Nvidia. But what else? What model should I look for? I don’t care for raytracing or other dumb gimmicks. Just want to run my map games and cowboy games without lag and crashes. Upscaling compatible is preferred in case I want to play newer slop without buying a new card.
I am so very much not a gamer. I have one desktop that doesn’t have a GPU, and my workstation is running on an nvidia 730m that I pulled from a shitty Dell about 15 years ago I guess. Two gigs!
The workstation is packed to the gills with 192gb of ram tho. Whatever that’s worth.
with that much memory, TELL me you have tried to utilize as much as you can just to see what you can do. You have, right? 2,3 photoshops open at once? 100 chrome tabs? What is your max? whats your numbers? I’ve never gone above 60% utilization of my 64GB ram.
I’ve had well over 100 FF tabs running. Multiple plex encoders/streams running at once with the FF tabs, two VMs, music streaming, everything. Bottleneck is always the CPUs/motherboard. I’ve always run Linux and never been a g*mer so graphics has never been an issue. ram utilization never got about 25-30% before it would shit the bed. It’s a z620 workstation with dual Xeon e5-2600v2’s. Ancient at this point. I have all eight ram slots populated w 24gb sticks of ddr3 ecc ram. Six in the main motherboard and two on the 2nd CPU’s daughter board. I got them for like 8 bucks a stick off eBay. I’ll never use it all, and I’ll never use it as it was intended for- mine was originally outfitted with dual quadro 4000’s in SLI.
It’s huge. It’s heavy. It’s loud. It’s hot. During the wintertime I just pop the side door off the case and heat my bedroom w it. It’s old and outdated but it still works when I turn it on so I’m gonna use it til it dies.
Thank you for this description, i seriously love your computer.