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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • Motherboards are tough to recommend because it really depends what you need from your system. My approach was to choose a CPU first then I could start looking at boards supporting the socket. I wanted ATX, nothing smaller. Memory support, just DDR5 and room to expand (it turns out most boards will handle like 192GB these days lol). I wanted the ability to change CPU frequency, that eliminated boards with a B-series chipsets. Next SSD support (at least 3x m.2) and USB ports (minimum 6x USB 3.0). Finally price, I didn’t want to exceed $250.

    When all that was dialed in, I was left with like 8 options, from there it was manageable to read reviews for the nuance between them.


  • New components:

    • CPU: Intel i7-13700KF
    • Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 Eagle AX
    • RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000
    • GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070ti
    • Cooler: NZXT Kraken Z63 AIO

    This works great for my needs, but there are some compromises that others may not find acceptable. The mobo is kind of budget level and only has a single 16x pcie slot. The CPU doesn’t include onboard graphics. The radiator is 280mm, as that was what would fit in my case. There’s no RGB except the cooler.







  • Well, if Garuda’s installer does what it’s supposed to do and assigns your boot drive by UUID, it really shouldn’t matter. I still think swapping before install and having the system in the planned final configuration minimizes the risk of failure.

    Some background: There was a time in history where boot devices were defined by their physical port location, so if you reordered or moved drives, it was up to the user to update the boot config to align it to the new location. If the user didn’t know to do that step, the computer would fail to boot. Modern linux distros should use the drive’s unique hardware identifier to find the device, wherever it’s plugged in.




  • I wouldn’t recommend swapping afterwards, moving devices around is a good way to confuse a bootloader and run into problems.

    I think you should create your installation medium, remove the Windows SSD from laptop, install your new one, then install Linux.

    You won’t need anything special to transfer files, but keep in mind windows 11 uses bitlocker by default, you’ll probably want to disable that while windows SSD is still in the laptop, otherwise that drive will remain encrypted and inaccessible by Linux.

    Good luck!