Why such a jump?

by on Mar.04, 2017, under Ultimate Edition

Ultimate Edition 5.1 to Ultimate Edition 5.4? New hardware is my #1 concern.

Ultimate Edition 5.4?



Everything is going to be replaced, minus tower and water cooling. You do know the Ryzen has set new world records. On water I will get no where close to that, however bang for the buck?

Have a AMD RyZen? Download Ultimate Edition 5.4 Alpha, a Mate based Operating System today… I want to say Ultimate Edition 5.1 was phenomenal success ~ 30,000 downloads at roughly 3GB in short order.

You guys are awesome,

TheeMahn


11 Comments for this entry

  • xxjoker21xx

    Indeed Finaly what I Requested in motion …. Nice Rig sell me your old one !

  • kb53

    Ny system still on hold, possibly Monday. But I plan to put UE on, although I want to go still with XFCE is my preferred flavor. I am glad you have the repository in your site, so I can go find and get only what I want. But the list of games in there is truly awesome which is mainly what I am after.
    I plan to download every thing in there, for future use however.

    If I had not invested in what I have I probably would have built a Ryzen. Not to the level of yours of course, but something using it. So for now I will let you know how it runs on Intel CoreI7 Extreme Edition.

  • kb53

    Also are you a part of
    ultimateeditionoz

    I see a link to that in Sourceforge, but it leads to nowhere. However I see a link to download it, but was not sure what Linux that is.

    Do you have a torrent link or place where torrent links exist, as my internet being slow, I can download it much better. But only your older ones seem to be in the torrent sites.

  • kb53

    Will you or can I create an XFCE version of the latest distro?? I will someday make a roll my own Linux perhaps. But then I am Lazy and want to just have a basic one, built on the latest fastest Kernel. Please borrow and modify the installer from MX16 linux, mainly the Keep settings, during install, and provide a Grub2 repair tool on the Live DVD for those who like me have managed to screw up the boot record and Grub2 lands at the prompt from where I and most others are stumped. I would love also to see you have a fast great software install and remover, much like the current ones, but one that purges the uninstall. And one that presents a simple list, rather than all the categories, with of course a good description. If you can pull that one off, then I think you will have a totally winning solution. One of the bugs I come across all the time, is the broken package. I am hoping someone comes up with a way to fix them automatically, with options to remove broken dependencies, and remove the repositories that are damaged or no longer responding. A lot of work in that area remains to make Linux user friendly.

  • kb53

    Here I am on the new system. Well with everything you hand build you have your struggles. Buying used is not ever the best thing.
    My only real struggle in building out the new system, was the cooling fan. No I would like water cooled also. Basically it boiled down to this.
    Intel boxed processors, with fan, are horribly cheap. They give a decent fan, that is ok, but the mounting system is JUNK.
    Plastic pins, that are very cheap, and do not even use springs to hold the heat sink onto the chip. Makes for a very cheap design. Why design a 500 dollar (retail) processor, that uses a 20 dollar cheaply designed heatsink, to use el cheapo plastic pins to offer protection. SO I warn you and anyone else to buy the chip, and invest in anything beyond the stock fan/cooler that Intel makes. SO I plan to get a better cooler.
    Otherwise the HP board, which is low cost also, is a good replacement fit. It is not a board to build a system with. I went with it because it is plug in replacement. It has only the 4 pin 12V connector, where higher end boards have the 8 pin. My power supply has 2 4Pin connectors, 600 watt, so I am ok with that, since if I were to go to a high end video card I would need the other 4 pin for the video card.

    Anyhow, I have not yet run a benchmark to see. What in the Linux world do you reccomend, I will go search for one. In the real world it is hard to compare benchmarks, as any change in hardware makes a difference.
    I know everyone wants the biggest bang for the buck. Well some anyhow.
    I figure this, my investment is around 350. For that to get a system built with 12GB (3 X 4 GB DDR3) the 965 Intel Extreme Core I7 boxed processor, and the HP Truckee (Pegatron) motherboard. I had the memory sticks, Case, and 600 watt power supply, as well as hard drives, DVD burner, and everything else. I will never buy a new computer, it is a better idea to just upgrade what you have. A fancy case, etc, does not make it perform any faster or better…
    Rather have a Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.

    So I wish you all the luck, and when it comes to upgrading, be sure not to rush into it, as anxiety has a way to bite you. To me it is like repairing your car, and finding out part A does not fit into part B.

    • TheeMahn

      First of all I told you not to buy one until reviews were out there. You are sitting on a gold mine. You can not buy one without dropping mad money. Sold out in one hour. You are lucky to have one, try and buy a Asus Hero. AMD did not drop the ball Mainboard manufacturers did.

      https://www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-linux-benchmarks-paying-for-speed/ I am going to tell you right now the 1800X is against almost all server line that Intel provides some of them greater the 5 grand for a chip, $500 seems better now does it not? Naples will be 4 Ryzens with Infilink 128 lanes of PCI 3.0. No pun intended Intel is going down. Gamer? http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-performance-negatively-affected-windows-10-scheduler-bug/ Let me tell you lose 1 FPS and people get excited if you are a gamer. The human eye can only a typically can see only 30 FPS. I have 4K holy damn I dropped to 50 Frames per sec. Junk the Ryzen lol. Yes I know about the 1080TI, what is going to happen when the Vega drops. I do enjoy watching Nvidia grab at straws. Lowered their entire line of GPU’s to prepare, why would they crush thier own chip the Titan X? Due dilligence tells you what?

      • kb53

        Well my upgrade started out based on being given a faster computer. But I saw the opportunity to go further. I am on a limited budget. I am not looking for spending a lot. My requirements are modest. So I went to the somewhere in between. There are all levels of to say, this is better than that. Its all based on your needs. This motherboard fills out all the needs I need. It is replacing a Sandy Bridge HP mini tower, so being able to just plug it in and have it all working, made more sense to me. I bought used. The one thing I can say about used, is that computers I have built over the years, that the components, if in good shape work. I am not needing that extra 2 percent of speed to go and benchmark higher. I am ok with this system.
        If I had to built it up from ground zero, it would still be under 500. With a case, 600 watt power supply, 30 dollar DVD, 1TB hard drive, 12gb DDR3 ram, CoreI7 processor, GeForce 730. Go to most retailers, you simply will not find any system for 500. Certainly they will all have cheesy Onboard video. So unless your spending over 1000 you just wont get a gaming system at a box store.

        • TheeMahn

          I am sitting on a 8150 8 core Bulldozer. The Ryzen is 52% IPC gain over Excavator 8350 which is already a level over me. I will feel my upgrade not to mention rolling to 16 threads, something I have never felt. On the Intel side compared to a $1700 chip. I will gladly drop $500. A 1700 is $329 not hateful, 6 & quad cores 8 thread CPU’s are coming. If you are on a limited budget by all means wait. I will tell you this AMD does not stop working, they constantly enhance their chips. I used to buy chips off their internal model stepping.

          Do I need a Ryzen 1800X? Probably not, my 8150 does it’s job and no slouch, however if I have a chip that can double my productivity a no brainer. I have actually considered waiting to sell stock and get a Naples too. 64 Core 128 threads building Ultimate Edition in seconds NVme or M.2 raided. Opens doors for serving to the general public minimally beta testers. I have in the past paid phenominal money to allow beta testers access to huge resources, wont have to pay that if it is sitting in my Mancave.

          We will see how things turn out. I am a fairly smart fella.

  • johntn

    I am trying to load 5.4 on a Toshiba LT, all goes fine until the reboot, it starts the process til it gets to the round icon with the 3 triangles, and the left to right blinking lights below, and never gets any further. I’ve waited for hours with no change, even tried to reinstall it all again. no change.

    • TheeMahn

      I am uploading a Beta, that is to be expected. This a a process I correct issues, newer kernel BTW. It picked up my wireless printer off the snap, the first time I have ever seen that in all my years of building Operating Systems.

  • kb53

    johntn sounds like hard drive is maybe toasted. However until you perform some testing hard to say. Since it fully installed, it has to be something hanging it up.
    Perhaps if Grub2 is in there, you can arrow down to the alternate startups, doing minimal graphics?
    You may need to do more testing from the Live DVD or flash bootup. But if all those work, it would almost seem to be a problem with the hard drive, perhaps run Gparted before the install and assure all partitions got removed and try another install.

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