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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • Omg absolutely, what a workhorse. I ended up slapping on a custom vBIOS, aggressive overclock, and swapped the AIB’s air cooler for a little closed loop 120mm water cooler. I ran it until it died in 2020, and if it was still functional today, I’d still be using it. RIP what a loss. The 6GB of VRAM were starting to get tight and DX12 was starting to age it, though, but it was still totally holding up for what I use a GPU for.

    Now I am on a 6900XT with the navi21 XTXH chip in it. I bet I’ll skip at least as many generations with this as I did with the 980Ti. It’s so fast and efficient. In some games, the fans don’t even spin, and it just passively cools with the heatsink.

    I play on a CRT in either 1600x1200@85Hz or 1024x768@120Hz capping it at 170fps in 85Hz or 360fps in 120Hz, and it holds those solid and stable in the games that I play. I’m not interested in 4k gaming or anything silly like that (but I’m sure others would say that I’m the silly one lol). The biggest factor that was holding me to the 980Ti was the amazing onboard DAC and native analog output. In order to use the 6900XT, I dropped a bunch of money on a DAC with a VMM2322 for it














  • I hate to say it, but… you sure about that? The Wikipedia article addresses this exact issue:

    As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.

    Yes, a version of the driver is included in the Linux kernel as part of Fedora, but it is likely slightly old and you can download the latest version from AMD… you should probably go do this right now, because that is exactly how it works for Mint, too.

    Exactly like how they’re also already included with Windows, but you must go download from AMD to have the latest…

    Next time you need a graphics update, please don’t wipe your machine and install a whole different distro with crossed fingers that that distro will happen to use a kernel with a newer version 🤣 just search “AMD linux driver” it is literally the first result, you had to have scrolled past it to find these random sketchy commands you were scared to run. Your GPU will work just as perfectly with Fedora as it does with Mint or Windows. I also use an AMD GPU on Fedora





  • Are we going to pretend that stuff being closed source prevents people from inserting bad shit in their code?

    downloading home made drivers on GitHub

    🙄 lol wut. Who hurt you?

    Open source isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be because it is better than it’s only alternative.

    There are literally only 2 options: open source or closed source. One option offers you and anyone the ability to see the code that you are running for yourself, the other option is “trust me bro, nothing bad is in here”. Which of those do you prefer? Which do you think ends up with more malware? You think computer viruses include a link to the code on GitHub? Lol