While you're here, please consider supporting GamingOnLinux on:
Reward Tiers:
Patreon. Plain Donations: 
PayPal.
This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Reward Tiers:
Patreon. Plain Donations: PayPal.This ensures all of our main content remains totally free for everyone! Patreon supporters can also remove all adverts and sponsors! Supporting us helps bring good, fresh content. Without your continued support, we simply could not continue!
You can find even more ways to support us on this dedicated page any time. If you already are, thank you!
Login / Register
- Linaro reveal they're collaborating with Valve for the Steam Frame
- Steam Frame and Steam Machine will be another good boost for Flatpaks and desktop Linux overall too
- Canonical call for testing their Steam gaming Snap for Arm Linux
- Valve update the Steam Workshop to allow mods to support multiple game versions
- SteamOS 3.7.20 adds the ntsync driver to help improve some game performance
- > See more over 30 days here
How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck
How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck- Game recommendation?
- JSVRamirez - Weekend Players' Club 2026-01-09
- Minoscereb - Will you buy the new Steam Frame?
- Arehandoro - Welcome back to the GamingOnLinux Forum
- Liam Dawe - Does anyone game and capture card on linux mint?
- LoudTechie - See more posts
So, today I received the Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero, 32gb of DDR4 memory and the i7-6700k.
After putting it into my system I figured I'd benchmark Windows 10 a bit (scored pretty damned high on 3dmark) and then of course went back into Linux to try out some games that weren't performing all that great.
And holy crap! I run Debian Testing right now, everything was detected perfectly (even fixed a weird issue I was having with my Roccat Tyon mouse, I could not boot Linux (Arch or Debian) with it plugged in, it would cause a kernel / CPU bug and reboot). It is FAST. Crazy fast. I went from 32gb of memory and an AMD 8120 FX, which wasn't exactly a slouch, but gnome-shell just seems so much snappier.
Along with my 980GTX, this should be a killer machine now. Anyone know of some games I could benchmark? I believe Shadows of Mordor has a benchmark built into it, not sure which other ones do.
I do find it ironic that the motherboard has 'Supports Windows 10' all over it, but I had to actually use the CD it came with to install the NIC and other drivers, I haven't had to do that in YEARS! Maybe now that they are installed I'll feel the same speed improvements within Windows 10 (I didn't go back after it told me to reboot, because, meh, it's Windows.)
slaapliedje
View PC info
View PC info