> > >> For business desktop use, I prefer onboard graphics for reliability. > Also, most add-in cards require fans for cooling which gives you another > point of failure while adding to the noise. Power requirements are higher > when you want the graphics performance of the faster graphics cards. > > For server use, you can get FX boards and install a very cheap video card > with low power requirements and no fan. That's actually also my current > desktop configuration (uses an HD6450 card with large heatsink) as well. > Not running games, I find it works nicely. > > Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my query. Although the AMD processors are apparently not as fast as the Intel ones, I like them. You are encouraging me to get the Kaveri motherboard. Figuring these things out in isolation is not optimal.
I have also been taking a bit of interest in the chips being sold by adapteva - the parallela set. They seem to be designed to work in tandem with an ARM processor of some kind unless I am mistaken. Regards Michael Fothergill > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54626474.3090...@torfree.net > >