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Today liquid cooler with a modded staff for g34 arrive :slight_smile: Next months

  • a new case
  • powerful opteron 62** cpu
  • a little more ram

and I will retry

The previous try was a fail because…

  • too much noise
  • too hot/warm air very stinky make me headaches

I will report how liquid cooler works (hope fine)

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I continue improvements my raptor computer too, i found a way to use a gtx750 on SFF, this a milestone to me, as for now i using gtx745 which work incredible, but gtx750 is OMG, even more i will use my OMG GTX750 Zotac(only to fit) with GnuLinux 7.0 which will added tons improvement on nouveau. I cant wait for.

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The problems of those cards is they have a fan to cool the gpu and I hate fans, I see some news configurations use liquid cooler also for gpu. Personally I still remind the old pc of 2000-2006 with the cpu monocore with really noisy fans, I also remind the nightmare of “case vibration” and my tries to regulate screws and insert piece of paper to try to quiet that damns machines :slight_smile:

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But GPU fan do not make noise, it pretty noiseless.

But there is one fanless:

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GTX750 is most OMG GNU GPU for sure.

Enjoy!

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Great idea they had. Even occupy too much space. It will fit in kgpe-d16? I need a configuration like this

slot1 empty

slot2 gpu

slot3 gpu (I need for retrogaming, gpu passtrough :wink: )

slot4 usb3 controller (the via controller works really good)

The best question: 3d will works with libre kernel? and video rendering? I have tried the gt710 with libre kernel recently and gave me error with firmware (3d disabled works but without 3d is useless)

with standard kernel require a proprietary firmware and h264 hw rendering fail.

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Yes it work 3D, but no audio support sadly, looks like there is issues on Nouveau.

Just installed Zotac GTX 750 LP on Raptor yesterday, it work a lot better than GTX745, however i have noticied that gtx750 do not enable the full cores on the chip, so i going to upgrade it to super rare Zotac GTX 750ti LP, however i not sure how to quick found this omg gpu.

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To be honest i still do NOT have a Real Browser for PowerPC either LE or BE. GnuIcecat still missing JIT and LTO for PowerPC, however it work OK, but not BUTTER

Raptor Computer System initially added full support for PowerPC on ChromiumBrowser, however i do not like Chromium either is compatible with Gnu trisquel 12 out-of-the-box.

The PowerPC Browser Arcticfox is stopped thanks to MacOS 10.5

To be honest i really love :heart: powerpc, sadly thanks to x86-garbage the community support is very low.

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FF JIT WIP

I may super happy if Gnu Icecat supported JIT for PPC.

EDIT:

Ok so there are not a real Browser BigEndian, ATM. Either a real GPU BigEndian.

ATM Netsurf browser work OK on my Power5 BE.