On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 8:11:21 PM UTC-5, ad...@adammccarthy.co.uk wrote: > Hello, > > I currently run Qubes OS on an XPS 13 from 2015 with an i5-6200U, 8GB > RAM, slow NVMe. It can't really handle Qubes OS - it's quite laggy and > struggles to play video on the 4K screen. The CPU and RAM are normally > maxed with a couple of VMs running, even without video. > > I'm going to buy a new laptop with a higher spec which should hopefully > handle things well. The following laptops are my final five contenders. > They all have a discrete GPU, which I'm hoping to passthrough to a VM > for playing streaming video (h264/h265/vp9 codecs). Do I have this right > that it would be most efficient to use the Intel GPU in dom0 and the > discrete GPU in the VM? I also do a lot of scientific computing, so it's > useful to offload some computation to a GPU via CUDA. > > I get the impression from the HCL that they should all work fine as long > as I replace any non-Intel wifi m.2 sticks with an Intel 8265. Do you > have any thoughts on whether one would be more appropriate than another? > > Dell XPS 15 9560 (2017) > Intel i7-7700HQ Quad Core > 32GB RAM > 512GB M.2 NVMe > Intel + NVIDIA GTX 1050 > > Dell XPS 15 2018 > Intel i7-8705G Quad Core > 32GB RAM > 512GB M.2 NVMe > Intel + Radeon RX Vega M GL > > Dell Precision 5520 > Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 Quad Core > 32GB RAM > 512GB M.2 NVMe > Intel + Nvidia Quadro M1200 > > Lenovo P51 > Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 Quad Core > 32GB RAM > 512GB M.2 NVMe > Intel + NVIDIA Quadro M2200 > > Razer Blade > Intel i7-7700HQ Quad Core > 16GB RAM > 512GB M.2 NVMe > Intel + NVIDIA GTX 1060 > > Thanks, > Adam
The Razer Blade and the XPS/Precision both have hellish thermal throttling issues. I can't imagine putting a hotter CPU in the 15 with the same cooling will end well. I have the P51 and the issues around it are regarding the thermal paste, if you do a repaste with kryonaut or similar you'll keep a lower avg temp. -- 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/d6697ecd-191d-42c4-9c40-2d9d1022cb1b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
