On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: > Hi, > > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB (no > previous FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days > booting normally. The machine then started not to boot, not even to get > to BIOS (so you couldn't even press DEL to get to BIOS screen). I took > the card out and replaced with old card and PC started fine. I tried > this 4 times and still with new card PC would not even POST. I don't > have a little speaker to here if there are any beeps. > > I am returning the card as it feels like that is the problem but have a > nagging suspicion this could be some other problem like power supply. I > have 700W coolermaster PSU which should be ample (according to websites) > but is 9 years (amazingly they had the foresight to provide 8 and 6 pin > cables which were both plugged in). > > My next issue is do I get another 5600 XT (different brand) or are > nvidia equivalent better? I have always been an AMD fan. Could I end up > in the same boat. > > PC spec - ASUS 470 Pro MB with 2700 Ryzen. > > Any advice would be much appreciated? > > John >
Hi John, what graphicscard you want depends heavily on what you want to do with your PC... What are the tasks, which put a heavy load on your PC/graphicscard and which you are do regularily? Do you do a lot of rendering (Blender for example) or video (re-)encoding? Do you AI related things (tesorflow for example)? Or is gaming you main application? Furthermore: You CPU must fit your graphicscard performancewise. It makes no sense to choose "a performance beast" and to combine it with a "entry level being". The fastest graphicscard can onlu as fast, as data are coming from the CPU and vice versa. On the internet you find a combination of the Ryzen 5 3600 with one of the nvidia RTX 20[678] SUPER cards. The RTX 2060 SUPER comes with 8GByte of video ram instead of 6 GBYte of the RTX 2060. "Linus Tech Tipps" and "Tom's Hardware" are probablu to look for. HTH! Cheers! Meino
