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@aaronage It’s perfectly stable under Linux from what I can tell but from reading it sounds like the windows driver check for messed with firmware.
The only issue really is the low core clock and high ram clock which seems to be a mining thing. That’s hitting graphics benchmark performance a bit unsurprisingly.
@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.
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!
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).
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Carl T. Bergstrom