Wait for Skylake or go LGA2011-v3 now?

[biodoc]

Alrighty then...Mint installed and running CPU tasks, but there is no option to use the GPU, although Mint tells me the recommended driver is installed already for the AMD R9-280X. :\

It's been a long time since I used an AMD card but I would uninstall the proprietary driver that's distributed with linux mint and download and install the latest driver from AMD.

Here's a link from AMD on uninstalling and installing drivers.

Note on step 8: I believe you need run as "superuser" and the --force switch

sudo /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial --force

For versions of X.Org newer than 7, /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial to configure the driver for your AMD product.
For versions of X.Org older than 7, /usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig --initial to configure the driver for your AMD product.

 

[biodoc]

Tony, have you run all the updates post installation? If you see a blue shield on the lower right had corner with an exclamation point, then click on it and install all the package updates.

Alternatively, open up a terminal window (menu/accessories/terminal) and run the following commands in succession:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you prefer chrome as a browser, then go to here for download and install.

Mint is based on debian/ubuntu so choose the 64 bit version.

 

[TennesseeTony]

For now I've swapped back to the Windows boot drive, I should have time to try a few of those things late this evening. Thanks Doc.