[GTALUG] Running Dell branded Nvidia gtx 1060 in non-dell system

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:12 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
<talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> | From: Alex Volkov via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | The other system I have is from 4 years ago, based on AM3+ platform, so it's
> | only has PCI v2 (there's a mention of PCI v3 requirements in ROCm
> | documentation), probably no exposed CRAT tables, and sketchy IOMMU support.
> | Just installing the card into it would likely not work, and upgrading the
> | system to something that will support ROCm stack properly would cost more then
> | $500, whereas just getting gtx off kijiji would be less than $200.
>
> I just assumed that my Haswell systems have PCIe v3.0, but I don't
> actually know.
>
> <https://rocm.github.io/ROCmPCIeFeatures.html>
>
> Googling for a way of testing for PCIe v3 from the linux command line
> isn't too rewarding.  In the output of "lspci -vv" I see 8GT/s so I
> think that I have PCIe 3.0.
>
>   LnkCap:       Port #2, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <256ns, L1 <8us
>
> According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
> 1.0: 2.6 GT/s
> 2.0: 5.0 GT/s
> 3.0: 8.0 GT/s
> 4.0: 16.0 GT/s
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For reference yes thats correct Hugh. If you look through the Intel
Assembly Manual it probably mentions
it there . Through I don't think that Haswell has the SHA512 extension
in hardware. Not sure when that
was added but I believe it was in a later version.

Nick