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> On 2 Aug 2017, at 14:02, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02/08/17 10:06, Adrian Midgley wrote: >> That all makes sense, but ... >> I looked up the purchase - the main board; processor; current RAM was >> bought in 2011. >> Estimating it's running hours, they are similar to the MTBF. >> So, it lacks some modern features, and the box is going back to the shop >> for some electrical tests and at least a new mainboard; RAM; CPU set. >> Most of the rest is younger and may yet be saved. >> >> i7 or AMD equivalent and 32 or 16 GBytes depending how hard I wince at >> the quote I think. >> >> ... the AMD equivalent... Good stuff? >> >> Being GPT would account for Grub being unable to install in the MBR >> perhaps. If so it could have said. > > To be fair it *did* work so the Grub2-efi component was initially fine > in Stretch's preferred default of UEFI+GPT: when it started crashing you > reset the firmware back to BIOS which effectively kicked the feet out > from under the system and rendered it unbootable. You're going to run > into the exact same issues with your new system by the way so now is > probably a good time to start familiarising yourself with the whole > modern way of doing things. Your new hardware may not even offer the > option of falling back to BIOS mode (good!). > > As you presumably don't care about traditional Windows gaming single > core maximum performance metrics, you are the perfect market for the new > AMD Ryzen CPUs. Depending on how much you want to spend, I wouldn't > worry too much about 16 vs 32 Gb of DDR4 RAM, that's a comparatively > tiny cost. I'd be looking at the very soon to be released massively > parallel AMD Threadripper CPU + X390 workstation motherboard platform if > I were you: add a workstation class (not a lame 'consumer' GPU) graphics > card, install ECC RAM and a NVME SSD and you'll be in business. Or if youâd like a proper workstation build. Iâm preparing to sell off some really nice high end machines at reasonable prices - Its mostly because Iâve successfully consolidated my workloads onto a chunky VM server. System 1 is a xeon based hackintosh in a corsair carbide cube case running on a pice M2 drive, 8GB ram , and ATI Radeon 7580 (3 at 1080 - good game perf). DVD, Nic, USB3, US82 , Modular gold spec PSU. Lots of room for expension - water cooled win and H55. System 2. a dual cpu , quad core xeon (2009) Mac Pro (Mac 4,1 spec) , 12GB , 250GB SSD , CDRWDVD , Dual Nvidia GT120âs (drive 4 at 1600x1200), (when using windows,Linux will also use non apple EFI GFX cards (currently running with an RX480 to drive 2x4K displays) System 3. (2013) Quad core i7 Asus 15â, 8GB , 240GB ssd, wifi(bgn) , NIC, Bluetooth,USB3 USB3,HDMI Out All run Hackintosh or OSX, Windows 10 or Linux without any issues. These are very fast machines with min 8 cores at 2.2GHz. TB to 2.7 and 3.4. If anyone is interested to make offers before they get to eBayâ. Iâm Happy to preload a main stream Linux distort either, Fedora 26, Centos or Debian. Or BSD (trueOS) if thats you thing. > > Cheers > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq