Basically, I am hoping to run Debian XFCE, and passthrough the AMD GPU to a Win 10 installation (which will live on a separate SSD (or NVMe). I have an old nVIDIA GPU laying around which should be more than adequate to run the Debian stuff. The host will be used to day to day work (productivity/browsing/emails etc), and the VM will be used for the stuff that cannot run on linux seamlessly.
I also have an old Cooler Master Real Power 850W PSU which should hopefully suffice.
I was hoping to pick the hive mind/collective wisdom to see if there are any gotchas with current setup. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Looks good to me but I’m not sure about iommu groupings on the latest bios for that board. I know some boards suffered on groupings with all the bios updates and it’s hard to keep track.
Seems to me like a overkill. Unless your GPU is 1080TI or 2070 Super or higher - you do not need that much CPU and storage.
Also you are buying 5700XT for Windows, while passing something old to Debian. Maybe a better choice for win10? Depends I guess what you are planning to run there.
Seems out of balance for me - but nothing really wrong.
I agree it is total overkill - but I am also trying future proof it a little bit. I would like to be able to dedicate 4-6 cores to Windows 10, and still not ‘feel’ it on the host.
With regards to the GPU - linux wouldn’t need much for what I would be asking of it. The 5700XT for windows is for a bit of light gaming, maybe some photoshop stuff, and ultimately ‘just cos I want to’.