WhiteKnight wrote:
SLI 3 ways with 9800 GeForce
Xeon Quad Cores
4 TB hard drive
Blu Ray device
32 GB of RAM
And Liquid Cooling if that count
That pretty much it and anything else you want me to add?
Wat.
Are you jerking me around? What in the world could you possibly need 32 gb of ram for?
And I'd suggest grabbing the latest release of Ubuntu and trying that out. I hear it it's rather good for noobs. It's supposed to take care of any hairy details.
Fedora does this mostly, but Ubuntu bends over backwards to do it. And since you have an nvidia card, I'd suggest that whatever you use, you get the proprietary graphics driver. I have to hand it to nvidia: they write bangin' drivers for unix systems.
Damn fine drivers.
If you're using fedora, I suggest you do the following: install yumex, install support for for the
livna repo, and then grab the nvidia drivers from there.
tl; dr: When you get a GNU/Linux system set up properly, it should run exceedingly well. Very stable, very efficient and all that good stuff. At that point it should almost never crash. Getting it set up properly, however, can range from much easier than a windows install (ubuntu) to holy-fucking-shit-that's-hard (lunar).