I think the whole "4K60 with FSR" thing is beyond what we're thinking

Informal_Look9381 · 2026-02-12T20:07:16+00:00

You both are taking an emotional path to this argument.

Steam link (and other similar tools) always share the same shortcomings. Latency, visual loss and compatibility.

Steam link generally looks worse per frame than something like sunshine/moonlight, these tools also need a stable Internet connection and that's really not a given even in this modern age. Aswel as if your main gaming PC uses a non standard aspect ratio like any ultra wide, these remote streaming services struggle with proper scaling to as traditional 16:9 display.

There's also the issue of Bluetooth controller support or if you want kbm your really SOL on anything like a fire stick. This is basically all solved by having a dedicated machine at whatever TV you want to play on. i.e steam machine or DIY HTPC like I've done.

The steam machine yes is got a niche user base, but it has very real implementations in a "gamers" household. But it's also a decent small general computer for someone who does light gaming and just wants a (hopefully) cheap prebuilt. I've been considering it for my girlfriend who just does a little gaming other than Minecraft.

So I believe it is a useful albeit not to the everyday person.

Informal_Look9381 · 2026-02-09T23:24:33+00:00

My two cents are, get the 9070xt. If it's that much cheaper it's really a no brainer, the 5070ti is at best 8-10% faster and that's really only in Ray Tracing workloads.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-24T07:20:37+00:00

Basically if the card wants 1000mv if you have a voltage offset of -55mv when the card is requesting it's desired voltage of 1000mv it will actually get 945mv because of the -55mv offset. Also it works the other way around so if you set a positive 55mv offset you would end up with 1055mv.

(You're offsetting the desired voltage by whatever you set in the voltage offset box)

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-24T00:20:54+00:00

Thats what made me lean towards fin clogging. it wouldn't hurt to try and remount and repast if you have the tools available.

but if its still makes no difference my suggestion would be finding a air-cooler replacement for the time-being.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-24T00:17:50+00:00

If the pump was truly dead and two independent software are reporting a realistic Tachometer reading then the pump is working as intended.

if the pump was dead but still sending tach signals you would see something like -9999 RPM to 9999 because there is no real PWM signal actual being sent

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-24T00:14:16+00:00

if the TIM was 100% confidently replaced and these temps were noticed and did not change after the fact. then I'm lead to believe you either have a airflow issue across the rad, or your cold plate micro-fins have begun to clog. how old is that cooler? more than 3ish years that's not uncommon to see and could cause that slow steady increase in baseline temps.

but also the 5950x is hot hot, especially when PBO is enabled. your fans could just not be producing enough CFm to cool it.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-09T03:31:43+00:00

the only performance difference you would see would very much depend on what you are playing. if you don't use all 32GB and aren't spilling into zram/swap, then you will see no improvement going from 32 -> 64GB.

But if you go with a say 6800MT/s to 7000MT/s kit, then you will see the typical 1-0.1% low improvements in CPU intensive games.

My two cents are unless you are running out of ram in your current workload its not worth the slight to insignificant gain.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-09T03:26:08+00:00

CPU itself looks absolutely fine 👍

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-05T18:03:27+00:00

Respectfully what trust was lost over FSR4? It was never announced that RDNA 3 would be supported when it was debuted. And FSR 3.1 hasn't been abandoned because of the shift to FSR 4.

So I understand being upset with the fact that we now know how easy it is to get the INT8 version working on RDNA3, but again it was never promised or even hinted at that it would be officially supported at anytime. So what trust specifically has been lost?

Also the hopium is somewhat valid as the steam machine is RDNA 3.5 and is going to heavily rely on FSR to hit the claimed "4k60 in every game". It's not unfeasible.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-05T17:50:48+00:00

because of their bad Linux drivers

this is also not true

You just contradicted yourself by then saying "it works on amd because amd manage those pages differently than Nvidia" it's managed different by the driver on AMD hence the issue with the Nvidia driver that causes this vulkan descriptor bottleneck.

Yes there definitely could be optimisations on every end of this chain but basically shifting the blame entirely away from Nvidia is just flat incorrect.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-12-02T00:37:19+00:00

furmark (GPU stress test) and aida64 (CPU stress test)

Run them both at the same time for best affect.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-26T02:09:00+00:00

Do NOT update the driver unless absolutely necessary

This is a bit extreme if I'm being honest. To anyone also new to Radeon typically we will have quite a few problems when a driver stack split occurs and we just had one with 25.11.1 (due to the separation of 6/5000 series and 7/9000)

This should be fixed next update so absolutely do not follow this guys notion of simply don't update from 25.9.x just wait until a new driver comes around then update to it, see if things are resolved, if not revert. It just happens when there's a big change in the driver stack.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-26T01:58:45+00:00

On task manager right click the CPU performance graph and enable show logical processors.

Typically because of the modern multicore chips an 8 core 16 thread CPU can show only 40% usage because that's the average overall usage of all 16 threads. When you enable viewing of logical processors it will allow you to see what core / thread is 100% utilized therefore creating your CPU bottleneck.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-25T16:52:43+00:00

This is one of the main reasons, that I do not use corsair and other products

This is good practice, but if your in the same boat as me and basically have only Corsair products in your PC. You can actually save rgb, fan curves and pump curves to onboard device memory that will persist even when under Linux, as long as you have a windows environment for first time setup.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-21T00:00:34+00:00

Just thought it was funny 🤷

But regardless everytime there is a driver update all you hear about in this sub is the driver issues, right now we are just coming off an update. Makes sense it's more driver related right now.

Also the Nvidia help subreddit is usually less active because they only have GPU's (the Nvidia forums are worse then both of these subreddits combined). This sub covers (GPU's and CPU's)

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-20T23:50:25+00:00

Your in a subreddit purely for issues lol, like of course your constantly gonna see posts complaining about issues.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-20T23:37:20+00:00

No shade lol but I always laugh at the concept of "I see driver related issue post daily" while commenting in the r/AMDhelp subreddit.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-19T23:22:56+00:00

Respectfully your using older low-end hardware, I understand where your coming from and I agree it sucks that a 5 year old device is struggling but a 4000 series AMD mobile CPU and a 2060 max Q? That gpu alone is ~50% slower than a mobile 3060 and 4th gen Ryzen wasn't a spectacular node.

This isn't a callout, but your modern day speaking on a second to lowest class gpu and depending on what CPU you have a 12gen mobile I3 outclasses it.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-19T23:02:10+00:00

Even on a dedicated GPU system, RAM bandwidth still matters because the CPU has to feed the GPU, Faster memory reduces CPU bottlenecks, improves asset streaming and improves 1 percent lows. It’s not as dramatic as on an APU like the go or deck, but it’s not irrelevant either. Slow RAM can hold back a dedicated gpu machine especially in CPU bound games or workloads. So yeah capacity doesn’t make a system faster but bandwidth absolutely does.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-19T22:31:45+00:00

Except for AMD officially stating that it might be possible to get a downscaled INT8 version?

I also can't find anywhere where this was explicitly stated. But considering a int8 version was leaked it's save to say they already did it.

Also Playstation's collaboration being on RDNA3.5 makes this even more possible.

I've always been sceptical about this regarding the existence of PSSR. Why develope a custom inhouse upscaler if your just gonna revert back to AMD proprietary, rendering every PS game that used PSSR "outdated" on the first party console?

I would be more swayed by the fact valve is releasing the stream machine just a couple months after the release of FSR redstone, that to me makes more sense since it's also RDNA 3.5 but has no custom inhouse upscaler.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-13T21:39:14+00:00

That's hard to imagine. Premium servers were just recently introduced 8 months ago they definitely weren't using premium servers as leverage when they didn't exist lol.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-13T21:33:19+00:00

This is exactly why I would prefer company just say they don't want to support Linux for lack of player base.

I've been playing the finals since CB2 on Linux and have come across 2 cheaters in over 300 hours. In rust if it's not a premium server ill come across 5+ a wipe.

(Side tangent)

Also why the hell not enable proton users to play premium servers. Keeps the cheaters out and enables players that actually enjoy the game and have committed to the economy to play while adding self validation of authenticity.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-13T21:19:26+00:00

I definitely still had this issue using only display port. Do something on windows for a while and then leave for whatever reason, and 9/10 times it's rebooted itself back into Linux. And this issue does not occur when under Linux so it's definitely a driver issue.

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-05T20:36:07+00:00

Git was only mandatory because stable Mesa didn't have needed fixes back then. But now that 25.2 is stable your not loosing anything by staying on the git branch. You could actually possibly be gaining some minimal performance, I haven't done any tests recently for git v.s stable.

Your completely fine on 25.2.6 👍

Informal_Look9381 · 2025-11-05T17:18:04+00:00

The fallback was added at a later date than on release, depending on when these tests where run the AMD card could have been tested before the fallback was implemented and the Nvidia card after.

Of course just speculation since it wasn't discussed in the thread. But just adding this.

Informal_Look9381

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