Quoting: Guest2 years warranty here, no thanks.

Warranty doesn't mean much, when they stop updating their firmware way too early.

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Quoting: GuestAsus makes the best quality PC components.

Quite mediocre motherboards if you ask me. If you want something better for AMD, try Asrock (which split off from Asus).

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Ryzen 2 is fine. But I'd recommend avoiding Asus motherboards indeed. They aren't a very good option.

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Surprising, no mention of their OpenXR efforts. I guess they decided to push its completion to 2020?

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Quoting: GuestFirst generation Ryzens processors are stable with correct Bios settings. Most motherboard vendors have updated AGESA.

It was for me and I replaced it anyway, since it eats more power with those "fixes". But for some even latest AGESA and UEFI didn't help. So my general advise is to avoid broken hardware. Second generation Ryzens already don't have that problem.

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There is also this: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109234 [External Link]

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Quoting: Avehicle7887I think if Canonical upgraded the GPU drivers regularly things might be different.

It's surprising Canonical didn't take care of providing gamers oriented preset, where kernel and Mesa are kept up to date by default. I suppose they expect that gamers aren't going to use Ubuntu in general, and would focus on rolling distros for the most part? If this PC is oriented on gamers, may be they should sell it with a rolling distro to begin with.

Personally, I also like buying components and assembling them myself, instead of getting a pre-assembled PC. An option in between are stores which assemble a custom PC for you, based on your components specification.

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Quoting: Cybolicthough 144Hz would be pushing it

That's where adaptive sync should be helpful. Let's say you have monitor sync range 40 - 144 Hz. So anything in the range of 40 - 144 fps should be running smoothly.

And then there is also LFC (low framerate compensation). You should try getting monitors with that. It basically means that monitor runs with double framerate to prevent tearing. I.e. let's say your game produces 30 fps which is below adaptive sync range. The monitor will run at 60 Hz (which is already in range). So that covers framerates between 20 and 40 fps. Anything below 20 fps is unplayable anyway, so not an issue.

Here is a good table I've found recently: https://www.amd.com/en/products/freesync-monitors [External Link]

Filter by resolution, sync range and LFC.

Hopefully all this will be supported on Linux this year.

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When building a PC, stability and sanity are more important. Constant crashing and hangs isn't something you want to save for. So avoid first generation Ryzens completely.

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Quoting: CybolicI'm running 100Hz with G-Sync enabled (on 3440x1440) and it's working fine for the most part; a few games need a helping hand, but it's mostly smooth sailing. Are you referring more to an available open / AMD solution or is 100Hz really the limit?

GPUs simply aren't powerful enough to run games at something like 144 Hz at 4K. Video above makes this point quite well. 2560 x 1440 / 144 Hz matches current generation hardware, at least if we are talking about single GPU solution.

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