Ouch! I have a pretty similar machine to you and I guess you're right it's pretty old! I have a Phenom II X4 955 still and I am still reasonably happy with it and haven't really considered upgrading (aside from seeing new shiny things), although I have a newer graphics card. I have a Radeon HD 6850 which google seems to suggest is a big upgrade over your FirePro. Maybe consider upgrading your graphics card to something more "recent"? You could probably get something off of Kijiji for a decent price that would save buying a whole new machine. Caveat is that I've never tried Zoom and OBS on it, although I have no problems with Zoom in general. On Wed, Jan 20, 2021, at 18:39, 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