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Building a new Gaming PC (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm planning on building a new gaming PC in the next couple of months. I haven't done so in about 7 years, so I'm a bit behind the times on hardware. Is there any special considerations you all would recommend when it comes to gaming on Linux? I already run Linux as my daily driver and have a home server, etc, so I'm mainly looking for suggestions regarding current hardware that I would want to consider for my new build.

I haven't done so before, but I'm interested in running Windows in a QEMU VM to avoid some of the pitfalls for certain multiplayer experiences in certain titles. If anybody has any experience with this also, I'd love to hear about it!

Thanks for any input you all have!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For most "enthusiast" boards, you can update the uefi/bios without an OS. I've even seen some that will do it without needing to use the CPU, so that you can update to support a newer (currently unsupported) processor.