I have recently done a, board up, upgrade into my old case (i love my old corsair case and i will use it until nothing fits in it). As a builder from the Jurassic age of PC's, there is still no better feeling than picking parts, building with your own hands and then the finale of the, will it post, power button press. There is ALWAYS an amount of gravitas reserved for that first power on and that feeling never goes away.
Remember not too ever get rid of that EVGA GPU's as they no longer make GPU's !
I have recently done a, board up, upgrade into my old case (i love my old corsair case and i will use it until nothing fits in it). As a builder from the Jurassic age of PC's, there is still no better feeling than picking parts, building with your own hands and then the finale of the, will it post, power button press. There is ALWAYS an amount of gravitas reserved for that first power on and that feeling never goes away.
Congrats for switching to Linux. I hope you'll be able to get that optical drive working the way you're intending to. Cheers!
I have a 1660 super on my I5 11500 Linux Mint PC. Yes, 65w cpu and a125+w GPU. It works and I got a good deal on it.
Nvidia:Tensor Cores
nvidia on linux geez.. when was the last driver for that the stone age?
The drivers don't seem that old from what I can tell. Though I'm far from being an expert on the subject.
What motherboard do you have in your build?
MSI B250M Pro-VD if I remember correctly
i never knew about the back voltage thing i guess ime very lucky i not blew anything before
Luckily, from what I've heard, it's not guaranteed to always cause damage, though it can still be good practice to stop the fans from spinning.
I dont even have a pc lol
What processor do you have in your build?
An Intel i5 7500