Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-18 Thread Emmanuel Vasilakis
On 17/6/19 2:16 π.μ., mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Sadly, in my experience graphics cards draw a fairly steady current independent of usage (it varies a bit, but less than 20%).   Some of the newer cards may be better.  There are utilities for at least some cards to adjust the

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-16 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
Sadly, in my experience graphics cards draw a fairly steady current independent of usage (it varies a bit, but less than 20%).   Some of the newer cards may be better.  There are utilities for at least some cards to adjust the clock on the GPU  (normally used by mad gamers/miners to overclock). 

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-16 Thread Wol
On 11/06/2019 20:21, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Plus, my current GT730 is passively cooled. Are there any RX cards that at least spin down the fans when I'm working on desktop (no plasma/gnome, simple Openbox with no heavy gpu requirements). I really like silence!:-) I can't hear mine at all right

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 10:56, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: > Hi! > > So, assuming I would get an RX550/560 card, how well do the amdgpu > drivers (open source) work? Are they ok for steam games? Do they provide > KMS (switching to a Ctrl+Alt+F1 is always garbled now). ? Are they > completely

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Daniel Frey
On 6/11/19 7:56 AM, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: Hi! I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and some little Kerbal Space Program. I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a

[gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

2019-06-11 Thread Emmanuel Vasilakis
Hi! I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and some little Kerbal Space Program. I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a 3600 AMD Ryzen when they are available, but in