I'm wondering what to do. I have a PC which is about 6 years old. A few years ago it had a component failure which necessitated the replacement of a few components - daisy chain effect. However, I've forgotten what they did... I was post chemo at the time and trust me it's like living on a bottle of vodka a day... So don't ask me what was new. Don't know. At the moment it seems to consist of the following - according to Ubuntu...
Memory - 16 GiB
IntelCore 8350 K CPU @ 4.000GHz x 4
Disk 2.3 TB
GeForce GTX 690
It's the GTX 690 which is irritating me. It was a card developed to be superfast about 12 years ago. It puts 2 GPUs on one card. Under Windows these two GPUs got used. Under Linux I don't know if they do both operate. I do know that SLI does *not* operate under Ubuntu and hasn't for a while. I'm unclear if the GTX 690 actually uses SLI at all because technically it's one card... The bits of the web I've seen are as vague about it as I am. Nvidia support for SLI on Linux ended some time ago... it was a technology that didn't go anywhere...
If the PC was just 6 years old I'd probably just replace it but there's the new bits and Linux. It's still quite hard to get a Linux box with the OS readily installed. My husband bought a PC recently which was without an OS but unfortunately they'd tested it with Windows so the residue of the OS existed and trust me, it was a headache to sort. So, I'd like to wait until the world is a bit more Linux friendly and the PC was built with Linux in mind...
I'm wondering if swapping the GPU for something else might add a little sparkle. And if so just what???? I had intended to wait until Bethesda released TESVI but that could be so long off that I'm beginning to wonder if I will see it! The other games I play run fine on the current rig because basically they're very very very old and there's no likelihood I'd play anything that wasn't TES... tried them didn't like 'em.
So, suggestions please? BTW the Linux part is non-negotiable. I've tried Windows, Mac, Android, iPad various mainframes and their various OS and I just like Linux. It feels right. We're quite capable of replacing a graphics card here. We're not hardware experts but we are ex-computer scientists and we've both replaced bits and pieces though neither of us has built from scratch. We were used to having technicians supporting us so we never bothered over the hardware aspects... the technicians were *much* better at that than we'd ever be... But I say all that to explain we have no fear of the insides and I shan't cry if it all goes pear-shaped. There are far more important things...
Thanks for reading this far!!!