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On 21/12/2025 at 18:33, RaidenX said:

I was originally looking at an AMD 9700X CPU and an AMD 9070XT GPU. I was going to go with an AMD GPU since their drivers supposedly play better with Linux, plus the Nvidia 50 series seems to be a letdown performance wise. The more I'm looking though, the more I think I'll be waiting until this time next year. Zen 6 is expected late next year as are GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia. One thing I won't be waiting for though is ditching all the Lian Li fans. My system has 9 ST120 fans and I've had 5 fail. They seem to be garbage.

You and me both, brutha. AMD GPUs work better on Linux.

I'm looking at soon-ly upgrading my system to a AMD 5 9600X and a RX 9060XT 8GB. ;) 

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On 27/12/2025 at 04:18, ultimate99 said:

8gb....?

I'm not a gamer. I don't need some beefy card.

hellowalkman helped me a lot :) 

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Just got done setting it up. I know the cable management is like sh!t rn, but I'll get on that. Right now all I care is that it works. :) 

AMD Ryzen 9600X

AMD PowerColor RX 9060 XT 8GB (Thanks to @hellowalkman)

Case is that cheapo one off Amazon

PSU is a 1200W Thermaltake (had it over from an older system)

Kingston Fury 64GB DDR5 6400

2x (will have 3 soon) M.2 NVME 1TB (What I'm using these for, no idea yet)

2x 2.5 SSD WD Blue

I'm running Debian Testing (Forky), If any of you care.

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On 25/01/2026 at 00:15, Mindovermaster said:

Just got done setting it up. I know the cable management is like sh!t rn, but I'll get on that. Right now all I care is that it works. :) 

AMD Ryzen 9600X

AMD PowerColor RX 9060 XT 8GB (Thanks to @hellowalkman)

Case is that cheapo one off Amazon

PSU is a 1200W Thermaltake (had it over from an older system)

Kingston Fury 64GB DDR5 6400

2x (will have 3 soon) M.2 NVME 1TB (What I'm using these for, no idea yet)

2x 2.5 SSD WD Blue

I'm running Debian Testing (Forky), If any of you care.

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nice. what's the use case? 

those parts don't require a 1200w psu, right?

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On 25/01/2026 at 04:45, ultimate99 said:

nice. what's the use case? 

those parts don't require a 1200w psu, right?

As for the RX 9060 XT 8GB, I don't game that hard.

I needed the previous Ryzen 8600G for something else.

Do I need a 1200W? No, but I had it on my shelf, collecting dust. I did have a 650W Corsair. But the cables were too short for this kind of case. So, just why not..

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