Building a new gaming rig and need some advice.

[blackninja50]

So, with windows 7 being murdered in 9 months I'm moving to mint Linux (#NeverWindows10) and rather then trying to shift from windows to Linux on my 10 year old work horse Desktop i'm planning to build a new one and upgrade. My plan is to build a new PC get it built up and running Linux then move my storage hard drives and data over to it.

 

I have a GeForce GTX 1060 (downgraded from an AMD Radeon 7950) that I could reuse but it struggles with even fallout 4 on high settings so I planed to go to a Radeon RX Vega 64, it should be all around better and play nice with Linux.

 

For the rest I was planning on a MSI B450 motherboard, AMD Ryzen 5 2600, EVGA 750 power supply and a Cooling master HAF 912-Mid tower As the case. Full build here.

 

Now, the main reason I'm posting is that I'm not really knowledgeable in PC parts or software and am not sure these parts will work together or even fit in the case or not. So now I'm here looking for any advice or input on my build or even a "that will explode if you do that"

 

Thanks.

[HeyYou]

I have a GTX 1060 FTW AC3 6gb card, and I run Skyrim (legendary edition) and Fallout 4 on ultra, with very playable framerates.

 

Getting various beth games to run under some flavor of -ix, is an exercise, I haven't tried it mind you, but, I've seen some interesting stories on it. Not all were successful. Running windows in a virtual machine (so you have directx....) isn't really good for performance either.

 

Windows 10 really isn't that bad..... you can turn off most of the telemetry, and end up with pretty much the same stuff Win 7 has. The install is quite a bit easier than 7, and driver support is REALLY good.

 

That said, "End of Support" does not equate to "use something else, or else....." I ran XP up until a few years ago, and then moved to 7. When MS was doing its very best to FORCE folks to upgrade to 10, I got a little script that removed ALL the windows 10 nonsense, (it downloaded 10 in the background......) and turned off automatic updates. I have yet to turn them back on, and I have zero issues with my machine. (well, software/hardware-wise in any event, not much I can do about the dust, and pet hair that tends to choke it.... just gotta blow it out every couple months. :) ) Sure, my O/S may be *out of date*, but, so far, I haven't seen that cause any issues at all. I will likely run 7 until my next upgrade, which will require windows 10, as there aren't any drivers to support old operating systems. Mores the pity...... (I think 6th gen intel processors are the last ones that support 7 and older, beyond that, gotta go with 10, if you want windows.)

 

Maybe dual-boot your new machine, and keep a win 10 partition for your games. If you have a valid win 7 license key, you can still use it to install win 10 for free. You can download the media creation tool from MS, and make a thumb drive with the win 10 installation stuff. Just gotta stick with the same version. (home, or pro.)

[blackninja50]

Thanks for the input.

 

I have used and set up windows 10 PCs before (still do on my laptop), it was the most frustrating, slow, ugly and unfinished OS i Have ever used (I liked pre service pack 1 vista more). For all this I found no benefits that mattered, I would be happy to stay windows 7 forever but the writing is on the wall one day I will have to move to a new OS. I know that for me getting games to work well on Linux will be like the doctor punching his way threw the Azbantium wall (changing to windows 10 would be about the same) but if I have to punch threw this figurative wall then I would rather the open source world of Linux be on the other side then the hell of windows 10.

 

I decided to get a Ryzen 7 instead of 5 and added a western digital SSD and have ordered the parts.

[HeyYou]

Good luck, and definitely let us know how it goes. :D

[MissingMeshTV]

OP: If this is your first build, I’d suggest spending some time researching your components using PCPartpicker.com.

You can compile a list of components you have on hand or want to use and the site does a pretty good job of alerting you to any incompatibilities. You can also take a look a builds other people have made with the components you have in mind and get a feel for how things are going to work together. You can certainly get a feel if what you want to use will fit into the case you have in mind.

 

After two decades of tinkering with hardware upgrades and swapping out components, I had never built a machine from the ground up until the beginning of this year. It would have been a much more stressful process if I hadn’t come across PCPartpicker and spent time doing my homework there. I was able to find some alternative component options that IMO were far superior for my situation that those I had originally planned on, which made my build end up being more cost/effective than I had initially specced out. Good luck!

[tekmage]

There are two pieces of software that will make Windows 10 more bearable. BC uninstaller and Classic Shell.

 

Have fun on your new PC.