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Hi! |
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I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. |
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Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and |
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some little Kerbal Space Program. |
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I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a 3600 AMD |
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Ryzen when they are available, but in the mean time, I was also thinking |
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about changing to an AMD gpu too. |
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The nvidia driver although ok, is giving me some trouble mostly when |
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suspending to ram. Sometimes it wont work, and the culprit from dmesg is |
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likely the nvidia blob. |
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So, assuming I would get an RX550/560 card, how well do the amdgpu |
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drivers (open source) work? Are they ok for steam games? Do they provide |
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KMS (switching to a Ctrl+Alt+F1 is always garbled now). ? Are they |
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completely tear free? |
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Plus, my current GT730 is passively cooled. Are there any RX cards that |
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at least spin down the fans when I'm working on desktop (no |
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plasma/gnome, simple Openbox with no heavy gpu requirements). I really |
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like silence! :-) |
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Thanks, |
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Emmanuel |
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