The cable connections don’t mean anything. SAS is multichannel and with expanders (expanders work like ethernet switches) one controller can interface with hundreds of drives.

The cable you have pictured is called a breakout cable that dedicates one of the cards individual channels to a drive. If you plug one drive into the cable and spin it up no big deal, add another later on same thing, move a dive from one cable to the other it’s all good. The cables are just electrical data connections to the controller. With ZFS you can even migrate compatible drives from SAS to SATA controllers (SAS only work on SAS, but sata works on either) in the system and they will still function just fine in a pool. For that matter I’ve heard of people mixing SAS, SATA, and USB drives in the same vDev (not generally recommended) and things worked.

Ok figured it would but everything I read referenced they’re gog version.

Does this also work with an original game? I’ve still got my install disc from the og version and don’t care to buy it again if I don’t need to.

There was a huge deal maybe a month ago where valve announced a huge fix for VAC that removed a ton of cheats.

Hopefully it will last longer than the fixes they made for CS2…

I highly suggest setting up a usb flash drive with Ubuntu and booting it up to know the exact specs. Without that it could just be a paperweight.

It depends. The CPU and GPU use the same ram. Increasing the size and swapping to something with higher frequencies and better timings can’t hurt it you are playing games that are stressing the limits of the system. You could give the GPU 10 GB of faster RAM which is what likely holds the system back.

So while it breaks updating the UEFI (BIOS technically died years ago) I don’t see a huge issue there. I haven’t updated the firmware in my X470 MoBo in years. Version 4.80 is on it but version 11 something is available but again if it ain’t broke don’t fix it comes to mind.

I would imagine there had to be some performance benefits since from my understanding the CPU and GPU use the same memory. If the memory is faster boosting the ram speed and tightening the timing would only increase the benefits. Though I would think that the modders should be able to make it so the UEFI can be flashed still and give the user control of the cpu and gpu frequencies and timings but prevent the OEM UEFI files from being used. Some sort of change in file extension would be simple enough but there I don’t really know for sure.

Would love to see some testing though.

I tried switching multiple times as well over the years. Often kept an older computer running linux but wine was a major pain to get working with everything. Steam and Proton has been amazing. I’m running Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04LTS with a GTX1080ti and outside of it being an older gpu it all runs really well.

I was a DOS kid and understand how to move around and do a few other things but feel more comfortable with a GUI for most stuff. FreeBSD feels better to me for command line stuff for some reason but I have been using only open source operating systems for over a year.

My stepson’s computer is running ChimeraOS (an immutable distro) and outside of a networking issue I had to fix by removing the profile and adding it in again it had worked perfectly. He has a RX 7600 GPU however.

It’s worth making the effort and a lot easier now than it used to be. I started trying around 2005.