From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DAB2F1582EF for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (bobolink.gentoo.org [140.211.166.189]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay-lists.gentoo.org@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27F03343204 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A57511047D; Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hognose1.porkbun.com (hognose1.porkbun.com [35.82.102.206]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6BFF91102A2 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail.porkbun.com (unknown [35.86.129.66]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: whiteman808@paraboletancza.org) by hognose1.porkbun.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9749145D27 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:52 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=paraboletancza.org; s=default; t=1740079134; bh=w1+fS4vzgBPpvSsgYeOBod5AvR1ufzkOwg+Lzrn9alw=; h=Date:From:To:Subject; b=X7HHrF0JsFTjZVF7fSDqqbfi6oPABd0H61maW9c7T9LdxybrVS6olV3l2uQRF+J9T Pi6rSMkP7wZKkql1QYwHmCkQmR7CjOoExYBnjDMgBgxQYi4FkvhxL2XlakxKW4ornV xB9+sEBKWvIPv6VTA7Vch2NZYH1BB1UF8xUt2ScI= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:52 +0000 From: whiteman808@paraboletancza.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Need help with recommended budget for hardware Message-ID: <96de22955d2d1852f423c349d7ca5e80@paraboletancza.org> X-Sender: whiteman808@paraboletancza.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 201e5a25-abe1-4ad0-bec5-5c830a29a1a8 X-Archives-Hash: 8b701e1734d5f5ae5863fc9af8e069eb Hello, I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money should I spend on it. To clarify, I'll tell more for what I'm going to use PC: * computer will be mostly used for programming in languages like C, C++, sysadmin, and testing stuff in the LXC, Docker containers, virtual machines, * I'll program mainly desktop applications using ncurses, wxWidgets, and embedded, * I'm completely not interested in doing computer graphics nor gaming (either playing games and creating), * computer will also be used as Gentoo binary package server for my other machines, including server, and general for compiling stuff on Gentoo so the number of cores and threads is very important for me, * I don't ever plan do any dual boot with Windows, I'm going to install Gentoo on PC once and use it, * I don't want to have Intel CPU and NVIDIA GPU, only AMD CPU or GPU, even integrated Radeon will be okay for me, * after I buy PC it's possible that I'll want to upgrade RAM up to 128 GB (I won't need more than 128 GB ever, I think), * it's very probable I'll want to add one or more HDDs with capacity >= 4 TB, connected by SATA, * motherboard should have many USB ports, even better if it would have USB 3 and a few USB type C, * I'm going to work on three monitors displaying tiling wm with my workflow based on tmux+neovim+qutebrowser+neomutt etc. Can you recommend an example PC configuration that will meet my requirements? Will PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and motherboard with installed 64 GB RAM be fine? This cpu supports up to 128 GB RAM and has integrated graphics and isn't too expensive for me. Thank you, whiteman808