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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 Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Second the power supply. Nicer ones come with longer warranty (i think the Seasonic Titanium+ ones have a 10 year?). A bigger motherboard with more features/ports/slots can also be shifted to home server duty in the future better than say, an ITX board.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nicer ones come with longer warranty

Nicer ones also come from companies with actual customer support that will replace your PSU if it fails in that warranty period, too.

Be Quiet is good, Seasonic is good and uh, yeah. Buy one of those.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea what you're referring to, diablotek is a perfectly valid power supply manufacturer (/s do they even still exist? I heard they were legendary for exploding)

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 months ago

The really fun ones were the Deer PSUs.

They existed in one of two conditions:

Destroyed your entire computer, and currently on fire
About to destroy your entire computer, and maybe on fire