[tech] Linux SOE on Pinball & New Graphics Card Needed

[Andrew Adamson]

Actually the best graphics card to get would be this one because it has 
a ball bearing fan: 
http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/new-products/15720-asus-turbo-gtx960-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-960-turbo-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html

It is slightly more expensive but the price difference is definitely worth 
it. Alas, we'll have to look elsewhere for it because it's out of stock in 
WA.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

|"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
| ---Peter's Laws                                                        |

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Andrew Adamson wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I spent some time on Oday installing the mint SOE on pinball (the machine 
> closest to the whiteboard). In a bizarre coincidence, the graphics card in 
> it decided to kick the bucket as I rebooted after the install. This led to 
> several hours of debugging by tpg and myself, and I subsequently 
> discovered that, of the four spare graphics cards we have in the machine 
> room, all four are broken. So pinball is currently running with the 
> graphics card out of the projects bench machine. I backed up and restored 
> the host keys to the new install, so those are the same (yay!).
> 
> Committee: can we please get a new graphics card for pinball? I was 
> thinking of something like the Asus 2G GTX 950 from msy for $237+postage. 
> Link: 
> http://www.msy.com.au/waonline/pc-components/16408-asus-gtx950-oc-2gd5-2g-gtx-950-oc-pci-e-vga-card.html
> 
> I'm not really keen on a gigabyte alternative either - of the Gigabyte 
> graphics cards the club has purchased since 2010, every single one of them 
> has failed.
> 
> 
> Andrew Adamson
> bob at ucc.asn.au
> 
> |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
> | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
>