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On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 11:44 PM Grant Edwards |
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<grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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I have two Ryzen processors with these fans and I find them to be |
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adequate, but I'm not super-sensitive to noise. Ryzen in general is |
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much better heat-wise than previous generations. |
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I'm sure it won't compare to something water-cooled with really large |
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fans. For OEM cooling it seems pretty decent. |
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> Any issues with Gentoo and Xorg on AMD integrated Vega 8/11 GPUs? |
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I have a Gentoo system with the Ryzen 3-2200G and I have no issues |
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with the integrated graphics using a completely vanilla kernel (5.4 |
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series right now). I'd probably use at least 4.19 with this CPU - I |
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forget when all the zen/vega changes were integrated but older kernels |
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may lack them. |
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I don't use the system for gaming, but I do run X11 on it with |
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KMS/etc. I can't vouch for gaming performance but my understanding is |
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that AMD in-kernel drivers are decent. I'm sure the integrated |
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graphics won't compete with a $500 GPU. |
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As long as you're using in-kernel drivers they should basically be |
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supported forever. It is only proprietary drivers that have issues |
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with losing support, and I'm not sure if AMD still has those. I |
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suspect a video adapter from 1997 will work with a recent kernel, |
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assuming you can find a motherboard you can plug it into. |
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The only thing I'd bear in mind is that Zen3 is coming soon, so you |
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might benefit from delaying your upgrade. Either way AMD is almost |
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certainly the way to go these days as they seem to be ahead. Maybe |
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for some single-threaded niches Intel still has some areas where |
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they're ahead, but I'm not even sure about that. And if you're |
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running Gentoo you're going to want that multi-thread performance for |
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builds/etc. |
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Rich |