Re: replacing hardware?

[Roland Hughes <roland@logikalsolutions.com>]

If you wan raw horsepower on a "working man's" wage, get one of these.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/383809689955?hash=item595cd71963:g:6NAAAOSwg4JhCKuJ&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwOngs27VAqvfureMtmK3O3TxUN8Opb7KbjeXhpl96DaDi%2BpSMCspc40m34f7wzlxF%2BX45dfQ8gIXlzjf6fMo7fQ%2Bd%2FLFVgwFRORxnAcRFKjjheHahPafOROUjs7yGNHpAM2hsg5JH6vcvU9mA9yyIoBFMIlEZELhAZ34xCCpMCvsEgzA73XBFddWtfV7FqHGXWrOsvP0B5WmRmCrODzhkH0msX1XB%2FXxf3fDYIxPcDITg7colOPlaNo93ATw2VhZYA%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9TglPvvYQ

They are mighty slow from a cold boot verifying all of their firmware, 
but they scream. Put at least a 6TB WD Black for your "work" drive, use 
SSD only for boot.

I have one of these I use for Yocto builds. I can give a Ubuntu VM 
16-core and 90GB of RAM. With the virtual drive on the WD Black, a 
complete Linux from scratch build for an embedded system is under 3.5 hours.

If you only need a few core CUDA core, a pair of these will cost you 
well under $50

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364218004301?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20220920135554%26meid%3D490d57d5aabe4457afe337f1c6aa1605%26pid%3D101197%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D295380047025%26itm%3D364218004301%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv9PairwiseWebMskuAspectsV202110NoVariantSeedKnnRecallV1%26brand%3DNVIDIA&_trksid=p2047675.c101197.m1850&amdata=cksum%3A364218004301490d57d5aabe4457afe337f1c6aa1605%7Cenc%3AAQAIAAABIJiyRA3UZOlY17tF8AfiSuRQhHC9c8zdhSad9rXZnwgXvfF0F0w2wQB9U6A4KFPHsgpqramMJ0IucFGCD0JT%252BF35flAQd1p2pgAxUhPkACs7fyGCi2Kmkbkap7sEf29z4T1tcYqHIgSzdNOG1MOYulEWTDyKPdEGX1ZD3Y5YmtSvdJWTbnODktzI%252FOxgP1OvnvyjHiiOxLs6eKwjAxkQlGxpfmagbcVGZqZakRV0q7if3tQ8o2Skrg7JazTvTE3pSz2LVaj28KYa5f2U46xzSarOdrR6T8k2GFHYUX8gtiy6cvg2qUOCFtImZL%252FTu24tLizEjk2gDzTx%252BTZIhA9hD%252BDk0OhzGYqFhPpHyO7ZiHjjCzmifYiIFcAFCdQoLVrL%252Fw%253D%253D%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2047675

I stuck a P600 in mine to get 384 CUDA core for well under $100

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255787052523

If that class of machine is too far past "hobby" for you, (can there 
really be such a thing???) then I recommend one of these.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125606569756

Again, get yourself a WD Black spinning disk of at least 4TB to be your 
"work" disk. Use your M2 only for the boot OS. I loaded Manjaro on mine 
with an M2 black 1TB drive and a WD Black 6TB spinning disk. I also 
installed an NVS 310 and the slim DVD RW. For around $600 you can have a 
machine that boots instantly and runs great.

On the Z820 I run Windows 10 and lots of different Linux distros in VMs.

On the z2 G4, I run Manjaro Cinnamon Linux. That's an Arch based Linux, 
but an almost user friendly one.

For those just getting their feet wet with a desktop Linux I recommend 
the current Ubuntu LTS release, not because it is good, but because when 
you search on the Internet the first help pages for how to do something 
will invariably use Ubuntu. Arch doesn't use Debian packaging.

Beginners should avoid RPM based distros at all costs. Waaay too many 
"We do it this way and don't care what the known universe has chosen to 
do" situations for a beginner.

Just my 0.002 cents.

On 4/14/2023 3:18 AM, fortran-request@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
> replacing hardware? (Steve Kargl)

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