Re: replacing hardware?

[Jerry D <jvdelisle2@gmail.com>]

On 4/13/23 9:43 AM, Steve Kargl via Fortran wrote:
> All,
> 
> The systems that I've used while hacking on gfortran
> bugs and features are starting to show their age.  I'm
> in the early stage of put together the wishlist for
> a budget friendly replacement.  While I'll likely go
> with a Ryzen7 cpu, NVME M2 drives, and as much memory
> as I can afford, I'm looking for recommendations for
> a budget friendly video/gpu card that will allow me to
> take a deeper dive into openacc/openmp and offloading.
> Anyone have a suggestion?
> 
> Note, I've mostly used FreeBSD over the last 25+ years.
> I suspect that pursuing offloading may  be easier with
> a flavor linux.  Any recommendation would also be
> appreciated.
> 

Hi Steve,

If you are into building your own, I am using:

https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570-AORUS-ELITE-rev-10#kf

It has plenty of sata ports and I am using a 1TB pci4 m2 drive. It 
supports two m2's so no problems on storage. Do get a pci4 drive, rather 
fast.

This motherboard will support the Ryzen 5000 series chips which are 
rather impressive.  I have a Ryzen 3600 which for me is adequate, 
however I have an upgrade path.

I use Fedora which has all the standard tools well supported. Ubuntu is 
as useful, with some differences in the package manager and looks of the 
Gnome Desktop. (All very configurable.

I just bought a cheap video card as I am not exploring the offloading.

Cheers,

Jerry