Looking for inputs on building a home-based “semi” workstation.
I’m based in Singapore, so internet broadband speed isn’t too crap.
OS → Linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
CPU → thinking of ArrowLake-265K (but fine going with AMD ZEN 5 options)
Motherboard → MSI-PRO Z890 or ASUS PROART Z890-CREATOR WIFI
GPU → Nvidia RTX 4070 (ASUS)
Smart NIC → Mellanox ConnectX-5 25GBe
Usage:
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@60% usage time - Development into high-speed networking (RDMA with infiniband and RoCE), so i will pair it with either a Mellanox ConnectX-5 NIC 25GBe or Intel E810?
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@20% → Low-Level analysis work with Intel-Vtune, Linux perf stat, taskset and NVIDIA Nsight.
Feel free to suggest on the NIC options.
- @15% usage time - Gaming on titles like RDR2 and Wukong @ 1080p
Would the ASUS ProArt work since it has 2 PCIe5.0 x16 slots and i need at least that supports PCIe4.0 x8 for the NIC?