Hardware Preservation Distro Selection

[swampfox9415]

Howdy, Im looking to help this old dog live as long as possible, what would be ideal for everyday use in operations such as investigative research with tons and tons of other research plus study.?
specs below Thank you.




CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3775 high: 4201 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 4200 2: 4200 3: 800 4: 4200
5: 4200 6: 4200 7: 4201 8: 4200 bogomips: 63999
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 550.120 arch: Pascal
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1,
HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300

 

[Condobloke]

G'day swampfox, Welcome to Linux.org

I have a fairly similar setup, with one exception....I run on 32Gb ram

All of that combined with Linux Mint, Cinnamon 22.1....gives me a seriously reliable, fast beast.

I couple it with a 2TB external drive to store all sorts of data, including Timeshift snapshots and a monthly full backup

The onboard drive is a Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB

 

[CaffeineAddict]

With these specs you can run which ever distro you want.

 

[MikeRocor]

G'day swampfox, Welcome to Linux.org

I have a fairly similar setup, with one exception....I run on 32Gb ram

Wait... Am I just blind? Where in all that gobbledygook does he even say how much RAM he has?

Unless the number I'm failing to see is unusually small, I'd have to concur with @CaffeineAddict - he can run pretty much any distro.

 

[KGIII]

You mention research and it's not going to be all that fast for processing large batches of data when compared to modern hardware, but if that's not important you're going to be just fine. If you're doing the same tasks you were doing in 2015, it will do those tasks as quickly now as it did then. As others have mentioned, you can run any desktop Linux you'd like.

 

[Condobloke]

Speed (MHz): avg: 3775 high: 4201

Which I think...approximately, equates to 3.5GB----4.0GB

I could be terribly wrong of course....but like you, I could not see a clearly stated figure for RAM......so, I took a punt.
He has seen my post and has not disagreed.....so maybe I hit the nail on the head.

 

[MikeRocor]

Howdy, Im looking to help this old dog live as long as possible, what would be ideal for everyday use in operations such as investigative research with tons and tons of other research plus study.?
specs below Thank you.




CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3775 high: 4201 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 4200 2: 4200 3: 800 4: 4200
5: 4200 6: 4200 7: 4201 8: 4200 bogomips: 63999
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 550.120 arch: Pascal
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1,
HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300

core i7-6700K came out in 2015 - that'd be early-stage "old" if it was an actual dog but in my -computer- menagerie, that's maybe early middle-aged. It shouldn't be a limiting factor in what distro you can run.

 

[KGIII]

I could not see a clearly stated figure for RAM....

Yup. That data wasn't included. It's not included in their inxi output.

so maybe I hit the nail on the head.

You have really good odds of being correct. Back then, computers were shipping with 4 GB fairly often and maybe 16 GB if you were a power user. There were obviously higher options but those were the most common. Assuming they got the most likely resources for that time, they might have up to 16 GB of RAM.

Heck, a lot of current devices still ship with just 4 GB of RAM, but that seems to be fading out.

 

[Condobloke]

My CPU etc
quad core model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
arch: Kaby Lake rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 57600

Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.02 GiB used: 1.78 GiB (5.7%)

This is on a motherboard:
Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B150M Pro4 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P7.30
date: 04/11/2017
Note the date refers to when the firmware was updated.

The board is approx 10 years old. I picked up the tower from the local tip, sometime prior to that.

Preserving it? What kills electronics?....temperature, possible dry joints, moisture

 

[The Duck]

Howdy, Im looking to help this old dog live as long as possible, what would be ideal for everyday use in operations such as investigative research with tons and tons of other research plus study.?
specs below Thank you.




CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-6700K bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Skylake-S
rev: 3 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3775 high: 4201 min/max: 800/4200 cores: 1: 4200 2: 4200 3: 800 4: 4200
5: 4200 6: 4200 7: 4201 8: 4200 bogomips: 63999
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 550.120 arch: Pascal
pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DVI-D-1,
HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300

Wait... Am I just blind? Where in all that gobbledygook does he even say how much RAM he has?

LUnless the number I'm failing to see is unusually small, I'd have to concur with @CaffeineAddict - he can run pretty much any distro.

He didn't.

core i7-6700K came out in 2015 - that'd be early-stage "old" if it was an actual dog but in my -computer- menagerie, that's maybe early middle-aged. It shouldn't be a limiting factor in what distro you can run.

Old my A$$ that computer is brand new.

Old is the computers I run from 2007.

 

[MikeRocor]

Old is the computers I run from 2007.

I so want to say, "Sissy!" but I guess I'm not actually -using- the stuff I have that's older than that. Maybe it's finally time to shotcan some more of it. (but the C64 and Amiga 1000 stay)

 

[The Duck]

I run Easy OS uses very minimal system resources so old computers not a problem.

 

[swampfox9415]

haha hey thanks for all the comments. and especially the gent who said my system is brand new. This PC was given to me by a friend and was my first so ive been caring for it like a baby for the last five years. anyways great stuff im going to install something today. Thanks again.