PS. Is the PCIe card referenced above any good? I intend to use this particular one as a raid 0 dump drive for steam games so Linux support is not necessary but it would be nice if this does work with Linux with no fuss.
I would 100% go with 1000w PSU.
Regarding the PCI card, shouldn’t be an issue on Linux as long as motherboard supports it etc. There’s few mentiones of it on the web in terms of Linux so driver so I’m guessing it should work.
Look like it’s a nice card, might even get one for myself
The revolt pro is just a Seasonic FOCUS GX clone, which isn’t really like the best of the best but it’s still pretty reliable and has decent ripple and component quality.
I just switched from x570 platform to Threadripper because I could not take full benefit of the storage. As in I wasn’t able to configure my setup to allocate a full 16x lanes as required to run all 4 disks (in 4x4x4x4). I could get two drives working
You will have to move your GPU into 8x slot unless your motherboard has a PLEX chip
The multi-m.2 pcie card requires both the ability to bifurcate pcie motherboard slots, and the availability of all 16 lanes in your chosen slot. MANY motherboards step the pcie lane availability down to 8x when you use more than 1 x16 slot. Check your mobo’s pdf manual to fully understand the bifurcation ability, and the pcie lanes reduction from 16x to 8x trigger point for this mobo.
You can also shoot an email to ASUS and ask if their m.2 card works properly in your motherboard.
EDIT - SO I am doing what I told you to do and looking at your mobo’s specs live on the support page. Be aware that it only supports full 3200Mhz RAM with 2 DIMMs … if you drop in any more DIMMs you will be wide open to memory errors and failures at 3200+.
Also it does clearly state under the “Slots” section that the board has 2 x16 PCIe slots and 1 x8 PCIe slot. AND that using more than 1 x16 PCIe slot drops them all to x8 .
My strong advice to you is to use 2 of the motherboard’s 3 on-board m.2 slots for 2TB m.2 NVME drives, and spin up a RAID0 on them for a 4TB Steam drive with 4GB++/sec read/write.
The suggestion for 1000w is for future proofing rather than what you could consume at the moment.
Heavy load on CPU and GPU, few SATA HDD’s, few NVME’s + few usb devices connected can get you all the way to 650-700w.
In the future daisy chain some devices via USB-C can add extra 100w.
I believe the motherboard is PCIE4.0, add some extra cards and you magically draining 800w. I would be a bit scared to have max 850w PSU but I agree as of now without the extras 850w is fine.
Since I bought the PSU I literally changed everything (motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, even cases) while PSU always stayed the same
Well this kind of sucks. Though from what I have found the difference between x8 and x16 performance is negligible at best. This wrinkle does give me an excuse to resurrect some old parts I have laying around.
The pci card is really about getting rid of the mechanical drive so I don’t have to mess about with sata cables.
While kind of off topic to the original question in the thread would it be crazy to just get an extra network card and connect my desktop to another machine as a kind of nas?
How much HDD space do you think you will need? Since money doesn’t seem to be a big concern for you, you can grab a pair of 4TB NVME drives and combine them with raid0 for 8TB total … or you can grab a single Micron 8TB SSD for about $820 if all you need is 6Gb/sec SATA SSD …
850W is basically more then enough for a single gpu setup.
But of course a little bit of overkill doesn´t particularly hurt.
I mean if you ever consider to go with a second gpu for virtualization / passtrough or so.
