Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote:
>> > I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from
>> > NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau).  Yes, they've
>> > made an open-source driver, but they don't have the information needed
>> > from the manufacturers to do create a completely functional driver.
>>
>> Yes, thanks, that's what I remember as well.
>>
>> I'm considering the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GAMING 6GB GDDR5. Any
>> thoughts or recommendations for/against this board?
>>
>> I don't think I'll be using it for games, but will probably be doing
>> some photo editing in the Windows VM.
>
> If you aren't using it for games it's probably overkill. It might make
> a difference if you were doing realistic scene-rendering, but photo
> editing is not a high-demand application for modern CPUs.
>
> Also, if you're doing the photo-editing in the VM you will only be able
> to use the native Nvidia Windows drivers by doing GPU passthrough, in
> which case you will need a second GPU for Linux (you probably have an
> integrated one already on the motherboard). This will also put
> constraints on the kind of motherboard you can use (I do this for
> Windows gaming and it took quite a bit of fiddling to get working,
> though it's stable once it does work).

Can you explain this further? This involves one cable to one monitor
for Windows and another cable to another monitor for Linux?

Thanks,
Alex


>
> If you don't want to go down that road then your Windows VM will only
> be using an emulated GPU and you won't be getting any of the benefit of
> your fancy Nvidia card.
>
> poc
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