[GTALUG] PC build recommendation

Alex Volkov avolkov at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 12:29:12 EST 2018


Jamon,

Yes, the whole Intel Ethernet, wifi and bluetooth combo should not raise 
any issues in Linux.

On 02/26/18 20:03, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
> On 2018-02-26 07:36 PM, Alex Volkov via talk wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> I'm assembling a computer and I'm looking for some feedback.
>>
>> The computer I'm building I'll use for development, run some VMs, edit
>> video time-to-time.  I also already have a 1Gb hard drive which I plan
>> to use for VMs.
>>
>> One of the big requirements is to be small size, lots of memory
>> (eventually upgrade to 32GB) and have a somewhat beefy CPU (Thus Ryzen
>> 2400G).
>>
>> I've chosen Asrock AB350 mini ITX because it's small and it's got dual
>> HDMI.
> I have the same motherboard, CPU, and RAM. Zero issues, ethernet, wifi,
> bluetooth, everything worked out of the box when I tried it with Ubuntu.
>
> I already have an Intel SSD, but the m.2 port is appealing and I'll
> eventually get something to populate it with.
>
> I'm waiting for RAM to come down in price - my only regret now is that
> it has just 2 slots, so I can't add another 16GB.
>
> Cheers, Jamon
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