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Sam Weston

@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
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Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

57 Followers
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10 Posts
Joined June 03, 2022
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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

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Replying to @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
@aaronage@mastodon.social I am tempted to take a dremel to the screw to get the heat sink off which would at least answer the RAM chip model number question and give more certainty about which of the available vBIOS might work. But I’m clumsy and I will destroy something important in the process.
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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

blahaj.social

@aaronage@mastodon.social 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.

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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

blahaj.social

@aaronage@mastodon.social It seems well put together but a few things point to it being a “fake”. I wonder if the GPU itself has been scavenged off another card in the first place. 🤷

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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

blahaj.social
Replying to @nikdoof@mastodon.incognitus.net
@nikdoof@mastodon.incognitus.net 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.
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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

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Replying to @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social
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!
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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 10, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

blahaj.social

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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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 08, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

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@aaronage@mastodon.social Hope you get away without any drama! 🤞

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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 08, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

blahaj.social

@ttscoff@nojack.easydns.ca I clicked a Facebook link for you but I will admit that it was worth it.

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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Apr 04, 2024
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

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@feld@bikeshed.party Thanks. I hate it.

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Sam Weston @cablespaghetti@blahaj.social · Jul 29, 2023
Sam Weston
@cablespaghetti@blahaj.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam@running.cafe

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Replying to @nova@hachyderm.io
@nova Welcome back! 🙂
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