I’m half-way through buying all of my parts.

Pretend that my selected graphics card is the Lisuan G100. Because fuck AMD and NVIDIA.

My usecases are playing around with DaVinci Resolve and GIMP, small-time Godot game dev’ing, playing indie games, self-hosting (e.g. a Jellyfin instance for my movie/tv show for my LAN streaming needs) and just general browsing lol. I don’t intend to overclock, so 600-650W seems fairly plenty.

I had previously struggled with H.265 video formats, my previous setup with the i5 4670k and NVIDIA 750ti were barely keeping up with anything new, never mind newer standards (somehow runs Ghostrunner 2 @ 1080p 40fps in most terrains!). They held their weight pretty nicely over the years though.

  • Mugita Sokio@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Your best bet is to use Linux for your machine, as that won’t clutter your resources like Windows 11 will. The G100 will certainly be interesting to try out based upon a cursory look.

    Since one use case is video editing with Resolve (I’d recommend looking at Kdenlive, as I edited for CoculesNation using that), you need 32GB of DDR4 or DDR5, depending on what motherboard you’re using. GIMP is a fantastic choice for photo editing, so good on you for that. Developing using Godot (I’d recommend a fork called Redot, personally) will probably require some good CPU and GPU shenanigans. Indie gaming would definitely be interesting to do with a G100, as that apparently has good performance to that of an RTX 4060. Self-hosting… you’ll want another computer for that. One of my folks utilizes a Quadro P2000 for Plex, but I’d imagine you’d want similar, since the P2000 is NVIDIA. For browsing, I wouldn’t recommend using Chromium-based browser except Brave and maybe Vivaldi (as they won’t utilize AI slop), and just go for Firefox-based browsers like Waterfox, Librewolf, Floorp, Firedragon, Midori and the like. I like using Zen for checking my YouTube stats (and the stats and comments of my producer’s main YT). Also, those need to be hardened, since surveillance capitalism is the way everyone’s data is sold nowadays.

    For the CPU, I’d go Intel (despite them being in a hole right now), and find a motherboard that supports Coreboot, that being an MSI Z690-A from my research. I utilize AMD right now, but I’ll be switching to Intel so I can disable the ME spyware with a Corebooted MSI motherboard, the one I just mentioned.

    Hope this helps you…