I have a PC that I got from someone else who built their PC and it is finally starting to show its age. Sometimes when I open applications, the frame rate drops.

I think it is using one of these currently, from 2014. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/900-series/

I know that gfx cards have to be compatible with your Power Supply, and your PCI-E slot, but not sure what else I should know??

I would like to get something very compatible with Linux, Firefox, and Wayland, with lots of hardware codecs. Intel ARC?

How do you learn all this stuff?

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[–] [S] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you for the link to explaining computers -- I'll check it out!

$ lspci |grep -i vga 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation IvyBridge GT2 [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09)  
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)  

For motherboard, it appears to be this Gigabyte . I found this command online: dmidecode

$ sudo dmidecode -t 2  
# dmidecode 3.5  
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.  
SMBIOS 2.7 present.  

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes  
Base Board Information  
        Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.  
        Product Name: Z77X-UD3H  
        Version: x.x  
        Serial Number: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Asset Tag: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Features:  
                Board is a hosting board  
                Board is replaceable  
        Location In Chassis: To be filled by O.E.M.  
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003  
        Type: Motherboard  
        Contained Object Handles: 0  

I will try to figure out the PSU soon. EDIT: Corsair TX750

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