My company forces me to only buy Dell hardware. They're OK with me running Qubes on my next workstation, but I'm a bit unsure about what hardware options to choose, and would appreciate any advice.
Being uncertain of the Qubes 4.x requirements more than a year ago I put in a request for a Dell Precision T5810 workstation with: CPU: Xeon E5-2630 v4 (10 cores) RAM: 64GB 2400MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC RAM Graphics: AMD FirePro W7100 However, looking at the 4.x requirements page and some forum threads, it doesn't sound like AMD graphics cards are very Qubes-friendly. My only other option at this product level is an nVidia Quadro (or AMD Radeon). I'd like to know if this looks like a good setup to proceed with, or if I should consider something else (within the Dell lineup/options). If I wanted to get a Xeon chip with the built-in Intel Graphics built in I could look at the Precision 3000 series where they offer machines with a Xeon E3-1275 with only 4 cores, and a maximum of 64GB RAM. Only problem there is that I run a lot of simultaneous Qubes, including Windows, so I was concerned that I couldn't expand the RAM on this machine in the future if necessary. I'll be stuck with this machine quite a while, so I wanted to make the most of this purchase. Should I stick with my original configuration, or would you suggest other options? I really want a machine that will be 4.x compatible, that would have the least potential hardware issues. I'm not doing video editing or gaming, but I run a lot of VMs at the same time that might be memory hungry. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/758ab18f99365c9f2d4b5b8317d17b63%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
