Well, the first point counts ;-). And that is the one the matters here most I guess.
Expensive?
Well it depends on the features you want. Here would be a similar configuration, but with much more future options and on board USB-C connector and so on. https://geizhals.at/?cat=WL-1447426
If I excluded assemble costs, the windows license was the difference in price in the past. Maybe that changed, I don’t know.
Than you need to open the case by yourself anyway and sell or throw away the old RAM sticks.
Currently, prices for good GPUs are way too high and if one can postpone the investment in a GPU it will result in much more savings than self- vs. prebuilds.
So, I think so far I am happy with the Captiva. Everything, or almost everything works. Dual booting is set up and works nicely.
The only issue is darktable (3.4) on Windows: it’s slow as hell. I ran darktable-cltest.exe. It says that opencl is functional, however, when I turn on denoise, the preview is as slow as my laptop, if not even slower. Maybe I should create an own thread for that. On Linux, darktable is as fast as I expected.
Well, what is also worth to mention: a little disappointing is the fact that this computer has exactly one monitor port. But that’s not a surprise. I expected that or at least something similar because I knew that the CPU does not come with an iGPU. So obviously, there is another HDMI port and a DVI port, but probably they are not functional. There was a sticker next to the HDMI port that belongs to the Nvidia card and “attach your monitor here” was written on it.
Every component that is not absolutely necessary was left out on this machine - there is no wifi either.
I did not work on a desktop I think in almost 20 years. But I think it’s really nice. It’s great to look straight ahead at this wonderful screen (with the laptop I had to look to the side). External keyboard feels nice, too. But I think I bought a crappy wireless mouse. Although, I got used to the touchpad. I only had to move my hand a little from the keyboard to reach it.
Btw, this machine is super silent, too. I also tested the performance with the RT nightly build from gaaned and the performance is optimal. I noticed that the spot removal tool is included in this build, so looks like it was merged.
Well, I am still suffering a bit of screen tearing under Debian with LXDE. I think that would go away if I used a different desktop environment such as KDE.
So, I guess I can continue to work.
Anyway, thanks to all of you for your advice!!
Really?! I wouldn’t think video cards with only one output are still produced… Just to make sure, where are those HDMI and DVI ports located? On the motherboard (vertical section on the backside of your pc), or on the video card itself (horizontal sections)?
yes, that is the case. I will post a photo of the back side of the computer eventually but at the moment it’s a bit difficult to exchange files between the computer and my cameraphone. Although I could log in to pixls.us directly from my phone.
There is a dvi and an hdmi on the motherboard but they are probably not functional. And there is only one hdmi on the Nvidia card.
yesterday I bought a usb bluetoth adpter because I didn’t find the old one. Well, in case you did not notice: my new compter does not have wifi or bluetooth that’s why it was more difficult to share files between devices.
Now I need to go hand in my Covid test (the blue box under the screen).
Naturally wired networking is functional. I do use bluetooth, and I also have a Wacom tablet that has bluetooth. Well and I don’t really have a home network set up. Maybe I should have a look at that.
I don’t like wires so I try to avoid usb cables. I mean I am too lazy to connect via usb cable.
Nice new computer! I recently bought a USB Bluetooth adaptor for my current system. It was a TPLink UB400. Zero issues, just plug and play Certainly easier to transfer files to and from phone using bluetooth, rather than usb or KDEConnect.
My AMD system (3900X) doesn’t use much RAM, even on an absolute scale. About 280 MB after bootup (in the system console), and about 360 MB with the window manager and some terminal emulators running.
Firefox currently clocks at 300 MB, only becoming troublesome when there is some sort of animation (e.g., on the GitHub main page). I hear Chrome is the thirsty one.
Hmmm. about:cache reports 32 MB memory and 153 MB disk.
But my system is currently using 1.4 GB memory with Firefox running. I will exit Firefox and report what that figure goes to…
I quit Firefox, only, and the system memory usage went to 520 MB. After starting Firefox again, it is back to 950 MB. And, like I said, it will go up from there as I use Firefox more.
Yes, the about:memory output is complex, covering multiple processes, separately. The Main PID is currently using 314 MB, but there are several others.
My extensions aren’t using very much; it says 70 MB.
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Certainly easier to transfer files to and from phone using bluetooth, rather than usb or KDEConnect.