Hi Allen, That sounds really overkill for zoom and video broadcasting. Don't get me wrong, a fast PC can be a lot of fun, but if you want to save a few hundred dollars I bet you can get away with a lot less if that's something you wanted to do. I have a i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz and would be willing to test zoom + OBS studio for you in a container so you can gauge performance against this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-6700+%40+3.40GHz&id=2598 You said 64MB of memory, are you referring to CPU cache or did you mean 64GB of RAM? I like to pick RAM by looking at my maximal resident memory, then multiplying it by 2 (or less if you're not doing much IO) to leave ample room for cache. Subtract MemAvailable from MemTotal in /proc/meminfo while the computer is under maximal load to get that number. As for something quiet, take the money you saved on the CPU and RAM and get a notctua cooler with the largest fans that will fit in your case, which is hopefully something hefty with internal padding to dampen vibrations. (Fractal makes good ones). The motherboard doesn't matter if you're keeping your PCs around that long, you have to upgrade everything all at once so upgrade paths don't matter. Just make sure it leaves room for a good CPU cooler for quiet operation. NVMe drives are totally worth it for an OS drive. Add SATA as necessary for larger drives later. Let me know if you want to see CPU load on my setup for that program. -Chris On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, at 6:39 PM, Ian! D. Allen wrote: > I'm running 2008 desktop technology and want to upgrade so that I can > get more than 5 FPS out of OBS Studio when using Zoom. > > I have: > > - AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor > - M4A79T Deluxe AM3 ATX DDR3 790FX 4PCI-E16 2PCI SATA2 eSATA Motherboard > - 16 GB memory > - AMD/ATI RV620 GL FirePro 2450 512MB DDR3 PCIe x16 Quad DVI OpenGL 3.3 > - Three Dell 1600x1200 LCD DVI monitors. > - Various M2 NVMe, SSD, and hard drive storage. > > I figure I should multiply everything by about four, so 16 cores and > 64 MB memory, so maybe AMD Ryzen 9 3950X or even 5950X (if available). > (I suspect having faster single-CPU response will be better than having > more and more cores.) > > But I don't do any "gaming". I don't need to shoot things at 4K > resolution. (I'm not upgrading monitors; I'm happy with three 1600x1200.) > All I want is a quiet video card that occasionally runs OBS Studio into > Zoom under Linux faster than about 5-10 frames per second, and nobody > is writing video card reviews with that in mind. Suggestions? > > I could just do what Linus Torvalds did: > > https://www.zdnet.com/article/look-whats-inside-linus-torvalds-latest-linux-development-pc/ > https://www.zdnet.com/article/you-can-build-linus-torvalds-pc-heres-all-the-hardware-and-where-to-buy-it/ > > He used "Some random Sapphire RX580 graphics card." > > As replicated by the other Linus: > > "Linus builds Linus’ new PC!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kua9cY8q_EI > > > -- > | Ian! D. Allen, BA, MMath - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada > | Home: www.idallen.com Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca > | Former college professor (Free/Libre GNU+Linux) at: teaching.idallen.com > | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/ > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org