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Dale wrote: |
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> Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> For several decades, I was a loyal AMD customer. But the last time I |
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>> upgraded my home desktop (2013), AMD just didn't seem to have anything |
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>> that could complete with the Core-i3/5 CPUs with integrated graphics. |
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>> The Intel HD-2500 GPU was plenty fast enough for everything I did back |
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>> then, so I went with an i3-3220T (2 cores, 4 threads), and have been |
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>> very happy with it (except for the security vulnerabilties). It even |
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>> handled it fine when I started working from home and added a second |
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>> monitor. |
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>> But, after the last update to the Heli-X flight simulator, I did |
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>> notice that I'm bouncing off the rev-limiter on the GPU. In order to |
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>> get a reasonable frame rate and sort-of-smooth background panning I |
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>> had to dial-down or turn off all the configurable graphics features |
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>> (anti-aliasing, smoke, reflections, etc.). Even with all of the fancy |
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>> stuff turned off, it still sometimes struggles and the frame rate |
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>> drops to below 20. |
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>> I thought about buying a video card. A $40-50 Radeon or NVidia card |
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>> would be more than enough GPU. In the past I've been burned by ATI |
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>> cards being abandoned within a year or two of purcase. Is AMD any |
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>> better about support? Of course, dealing with closed-source NVidia |
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>> drivers is also annoying. |
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>> Also, the motherboard/CPU are almost 8 years old. Maybe it's time for |
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>> a new AMD Ryzen with an integrated GPU. Even the low-end sub-$100 |
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>> Ryzen 3 with Vega 8 GPU would be a big jump in performance from the |
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>> current Intel HD 2500. For another $40, a Ryzen 5 with Vega 11 GPU |
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>> would completely outclass what I have now. |
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>> How are the AMD "Wraith Stealth" fans? I've been using the fan that |
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>> came with the old Core-i3, and it gets a little annoying when it's |
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>> time to compile chromium (or when flying planes/helicopters). |
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>> Any issues with Gentoo and Xorg on AMD integrated Vega 8/11 GPUs? |
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>> AFAICT, the drivers are all open source, and it ought to "just work" |
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>> with recent kernels. |
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>> Unfortunately, the capaciters on the existing motherboard are all |
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>> solid and probably aren't going to pop any time soon. |
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> So far, I've always bought AMD video cards too. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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That should be Nvidia based video cards. I had AMD on my brain. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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