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> My Ubuntu machine — which I built to edit photos and game — currently runs on a Threadripper 2950X with two VEGA 64 GPUs. It should be a beast, and it is, but
by asjw 7y ago
> My Ubuntu machine — which I built to edit photos and game — currently runs on a Threadripper 2950X with two VEGA 64 GPUs. It should be a beast, and it is, but the entire computer freezes from time to time and requires a hard reboot to come back to life.
That's the story with all the assembled pcs out there.
Something is faulty, replace it.
When I stopped doing it myself and started buying workstations with an actual warranty, my problems ended.
My main machine has been a Debian testing for the past 3 years on a Lenovo P70 with 64gb of ram, not a single glitch, except those things a power user running bleeding edge software has to face .
The quality of the hardware is very important, Mac hardware is just good and extremely overpriced.
- jamesponddotco 7y agoI commented above, but this is not faulty hardware — the same issue do not happen in Windows 10 or Ubuntu 18.04, for example. The whole point of leaving macOS for me was to be able to build my own hardware without spending an insane amount of money. You think MacBooks are expensive in the US, come to Brazil and try to buy one.
- necovek 7y agoThe fact that other software does not complain does not mean it is not faulty/mismatched hardware. Linux will frequently trigger more faults (as an example, since it aggressively uses entire memory as filesystem cache, memory problems are highlighted even when Windows runs just fine). Similarly, new drivers might be stressing the system in a way the old ones didn't (eg. cooling might be insufficient). Not saying that is happening for you, but the fact that older Ubuntu or Windows work correctly is not an indicator of trouble-free hardware.