In my cheap gaming rig antics my dodgy AMD RX 580 arrived from eBay. It is, as expected, pretty dodgy!
It’s got a sticker on it suggesting it’s an Asus card but it seems to be a bit of a mongrel and running a firmware with odd clock speeds optimised for crypto mining.
Oh and it’s missing a fan blade so I’ve removed the fan in question to stop it shaking itself apart.
It’s working under Linux albeit with sub-par peformance, but the Windows drivers won’t work with it at all (why it was cheap).
I’m trying to find a slightly less dodgy vBIOS for it with more standard clock speeds so I can get a decent level of performance out of it. However the chance of me turning it into a paperweight in the process are high. Watch this space. 😆
Oh and I can’t get the heat sink off to check chip markings because one of the previous owners rounded out one of the screws. So very dodgy!
@nikdoof I love playing with slightly shit hardware. I’m £40 into this card even with new fans on the way so I’ll take a risk.
I hope that is the case. I’ve found some firmware that should work but I’m having major trouble finding straight info about what the consequences of getting it wrong are.
@cablespaghetti A quick Google seems to indicate that worse comes to worse its desoldering a SOP8 on the card, or using a pair of tweezers to short the power pin on it at boot so it starts the GPU up in a default mode:
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