Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn't have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won't install in CSM mode... I've tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT... 😅 Boot partition with and without file system... 💀
I'll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
Night👋🔌
Oof, that's a terrible card. The GP108 chip is a rebatched mobile card Geforce MX 150, it's a pretty ancient chip at this point. There are no drivers for it, so you'll need to use older drivers or limited open source drivers. Unless you got it very very cheap that's not going to work very well for you. It's newer than a GT 220, but not by much.
Aaah fuck me. 😅 I haven't paid yet, so maybe I'll just leave it there then. Aaah how hard can this shit be 🤣
Edit: thanks for the heads up!!!
Look for second hand stuff and something like a 6000 series from AMD. Don't buy cheap videocards new, they always suck.
How about an Intel? This one would even just fit geometrically.
Ignore the other guy on this, I have an A770 in my gaming ring and a B60 in my server. The drivers are amazing on Linux, and much better than NVIDIA.
If all you need is encoding, then VAAPI just works. There are some other caveats with the Alchemist series, which is mostly it was made during the transition to
xe, which means you either pick better encoding withi915(default) or better gaming performance withxe. For your use case I'd leave it with the defaulti915, though there are encoding patches forxeif you must use the newer driver. Both drivers are mainlined and officially supported by Intel.I was going to say, Intel GPUs work great on Linux these days. For more modern Intel cards (if not all Intel GPUs), it's also part of the kernel, just like AMD cards.
The A series is pretty limited, I would go for a B series if you can find it. But keep in mind drivers for Intel on Windows are terrible and on Linux even worse. So that would not be a good time.
There's plenty of cards that would fit in 40mm, but your airflow would be pretty bad. Do you have a pic of the inside of your system? There has to be a way to make something more fit.
But most 6600, 7600 and 9060 cards should be able to fit in 40mm. And with AMD the drivers on Linux are very good.
Thanks for all the advice! I really appreciate it!
I just removed the GPU, which sat in the PCIe 4.0 slot - which I guess really doesn't matter, since capturing shouldn't rely on the GPU, right? (Perhaps when I encode with
ffmpegthough... Even then, I don't mind letting it encode through the night.) The top and bottom cards are the capture cards.That's tight fit. If you really need the two capture cards then that's the room you've got to work with. If you can bring it down to just one card at the top that would be a lot better. I personally use a capture card that's connected using USB3, which works very well and doesn't require room inside the computer (even though I would have room).
Most videocards have two or three fans on the bottom these days, with such a tight fit one of the fans can easily collide with the capture card. And even when it doesn't it will have a hard time sucking in air from there. You can try and find a blower type card, but that would be a bit harder to find.
And you wouldn't happen to have a GPU inside the CPU? Because the iGPUs from AMD are very solid if you don't need much in terms of performance (easily faster than the 1030 you mentioned). Otherwise two capture cards and a GPU is a big ask in such a small case.
Thanks! You just gave me two ideas:
I think I'll try #1 before investing any more money at the moment. Again, thank you so much for taking your time! 🥰
Sounds like an excellent idea! If you ever get tired of swapping, an USB capture card is a lot cheaper than a new GPU with current prices. Good luck!