I’ve been slow to make an upgrade, and figure what better time to switch to linux?
Did what I could to try to research that the parts were all fairly linux friendly, with a warning about the motherboard’s wifi7 maybe not yet supported yet by the kernel.
Looking for a mid-high range build without going crazy on the cost. Build actually came in a bit cheaper than I expected, so feel like maybe I’m missing something here.
My monitor, which I’m planning to keep, does have G-Sync, but I don’t know that I’ll miss it.
PS: I know i can get more life out of my old hardware, but I want to turn that into a NAS.
EDIT: Fixed link.
I would say it’s a good build but I’m biased as this is near enough to the previous iteration of my own build (7950x/PS120SE/7900xtx/NR200P).
I’d disagree with other posters about it being tight; this is the biggest ITX case at 20L and the entire thing disassembles to make it easy to route cables. Your build will fit perfectly, and the NR200P can take a 3 slot GPU of at least 320mm, as per my own experience. Be aware you will most likely need to intake from the rear of the case though, where there is no dust filter.
The only notes I would have is, to echo another poster, go for the 9070 XT or even 9070 if it is within 20% of the price; and don’t cheap out on the mobo. Go for a B650 or even B850 at least, since as a general rule, connectivity now and in future will be limited by your motherboard. The Asrock B850i isn’t far off your choice currently: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9hqNnQ/asrock-b850i-lightning-wifi-mini-itx-am5-motherboard-b850i-lightning-wifi
Conversely, the only reason I transplanted my setup to the Lian Li Dan A3 is I wanted something with a teensy bit more room (26L) and more air flow paths (its basically all mesh). I will say that the slight step up to mATX brings a lot more options and negates the ITX tax. The NR200P is a GOAT case though and I plan to hold onto mine.
I don’t see any info about your use cases, but for distro, I would recommend taking a look at some of the “gaming” distros if that is even a slight ask; I myself have gone Mint -> PopOS -> Fedora and now landed on Bazzite, which has been a surprisingly good all-rounder for both work and play. It has done gaming better than any other distro for me, and even though it is marketed as an immutable gaming distro, it has a plethora of ways to install general use software. Check out Framework’s guide (or any of the multitude of others floating around) for an easy to follow setup: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Bazzite+Installation+on+the+Framework+Desktop/415
You figure the 9070 just has that much extra longevity here, or just that much more power?
As for the mobo, to be honest I mostly was just looking at something that seemed like it would fit the case well, but will give those a look.
Really appreciate the distro advice as well. I haven’t had a home linux since whatever version of fedora was around like 15 years ago.
hm yeah sure enough.
Looking to do some gaming, but don’t really care about it being ultra settings at 100FPS. Mostly single player stuff and do appreciate it looking pretty though.
Also looking to do a bit of dev work. Usually running IntelliJ or whatever other Jetbrains product fits the language I’m working in.
As always, it is price dependent; the 9070 series is a decent jump from the 7800 in a few areas, so if it is within say an extra $50 I’d consider it. The XT model is only like 5% more performance on top of that as well.
Happy to opine since I have been on the Windows > Dual boot > full Linux journey myself in the last couple of years. Regardless of distro, you’re in for a treat; any of the modern distros are pretty good now. I’m a KDE Plasma stan as well, but thats a personal taste thing haha
Definitely spend the extra for the 9070 then, price comment withstanding, as it will last you awhile.
I don’t do much coding these days since I stick to my crayons, but looks like most of these are cross-platform. It’s also worth mentioning that there are plenty of cool tools like Distrobox as well, which allow you to easily run any Linux distro + toolchain as a container to provide a sandboxed, mutable environment, so immutable distros aren’t a dealbreaker either.
This is why I like Bazzite so much for dual use, because if you are at all gaming, all of the baked in QoL features make setup easy when I have had many issues with other non-gaming distros in the past, and the rest has tools to make it work somehow. Immutable distros mean you can’t really screw up the OS either.