Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 16:20 -0400, Alex wrote: > > Also, if you're doing the photo-editing in the VM you will only be able > > to use the native Nvidia Windows drivers by doing GPU passthrough, in > > which case you will need a second GPU for Linux (you probably have an > > integrated one already o

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-18 Thread Alex
Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote: >> > I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from >> > NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've >> > made an open-source driver, but

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 14:23 -0400, Alex wrote: > > I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from > > NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've > > made an open-source driver, but they don't have the information needed > > from the manufacturers to do

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-17 Thread Alex
Hi, On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 5:09 AM, Tim via users wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Alex sent: >> I believe the open source support for NVIDIA is better than for AMD >> these days, correct? > > I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from > NVIDIA, just some r

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-17 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 16 July 2018, Alex sent: > I believe the open source support for NVIDIA is better than for AMD > these days, correct? I don't know about AMD, but there is no real open-source driver from NVIDIA, just some reverse engineered thing (Nouveau). Yes, they've made an open-source

Re: Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-16 Thread Zachary Snyder
Open source supper is better for AMD these days, I do the same but with the i5 equivalent 8600k overclocked just fine. If you will be assigning a single video card to a window virtual machine you will not need to worry about SLI or Crossfire. If you are not doing GPU passthrough, unless you’re doi

Considering Asus Prime Z370-A; need video recommendations

2018-07-16 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm considering purchasing an Asus Prime Z370-A motherboard with an i7-8700 processor for my new desktop. I plan on running fedora exclusively with a few kvm virtual machines running fedora and win10. I'm looking for recommendations for video controllers. It says it supports NVIDIA 2-way SLI a