Z-Man wrote:PSU wise, check whether you can get
a beQuiet!.
Those look cool, but it seems they may only be (reasonably) available in Europe. No matter!...more below.
Regarding driver installation, my experience with three current *buntus and NVidia is the "Just use the additional drivers thing".
Let's hope that's the case with me. Are any of your NVidias recent, though? It seems the main issue may be the newer Nvidia architectures (Maxwell, in my case) only recently being supported by the kernel, and not well. Which I guess applies to the nouveau drivers, and that's where the nomodeset thing comes in. But, even then...I dunno. We'll see and I'll further cross that bridge if and when I come to it.
And maybe that's been resolved; most of the threads and such I saw were a bit dated. And I'm sure there's some Internet Law about when looking up info on something, you're more likely to run across those who've had problems, since people tend not to make threads and such about how something went fine or nothing is wrong with them.
ppotter wrote:The 750 Ti really doesn't draw that much power, most variations don't even need a 6-pin connector, they're just powered through the PCIe slot. You could arguably get away with the current PSU, though it would definitely be a good choice to upgrade. Presuming it's a pre-built, you might want to double check that a standard size PSU will fit, sometimes companies like Dell like to use their own parts with weird dimensions and connectors.
Way ahead of you there.
Those considerations are part of the reasons I chose this card. But my PSU does need to be replaced. Besides being an OEM that probably doesn't live up to the claimed 300w, it also doesn't have the required amperage on the 12v rail—whatever that means, but I checked it and it's wrong. I am fairly confident about a standard PSU fitting, from examples I've seen of others replacing them in this PC.
Here is a tier list of PSUs, last updated a couple of months ago.
Already found that, too.
Not the easiest to take in, though.
For what it's worth I have an EVGA G2 550W, it has an eco mode which ensures the fan only spins when needed, and when it spins it's barely audible. Certainly quieter than the case fans and graphics card.
And whaddyaknow, I ended up getting this
EVGA 220-G2-0550-Y1 80 PLUS GOLD 550W ECO Mode Fully Modular.... I receive those newegg "deals" emails, and this happened to show up a day or two after I made that post. I ran it by the guy helping me out and he was like "I would jump on that." It was on sale for $60 at the time. So hopefully that'll work out.
Light wrote:Are noisy PSUs still an issue?
I dunno, but I wanted to stipulate it since I'm fairly sensitive to that, just in case. There's almost a pun there.
By the way, what has anyone's experiences been with installing Steam on *buntu? From what I've read, seems the best method nowadays is download the .deb directly from Steam. But apparently a lot of people have had trouble with it not working once installed, something related to their graphics drivers or some such. And the solution seems to be to install Steam before installing your graphics drivers.