Upgrading hardware, want to confirm I am doing things right.
Ive purchased some parts to upgrade my PC, namely the GPU which was a Arc B580 12GB. i went for this as I want to try the new Battlemage cards, and my current RX 6600 8GB card is showing its age a bit.
Is there anything I need to do before I swap the cards out? To my understanding, the Arc cards use the MESA drivers like the AMD cards do, just want to confirm this is correct or if I am barking up the wrong tree.
Is there anything I should do for good measure to make sure it goes smoothly? Nothing else is changing other than some changes to my cooling and a new case. Main ones the GPU. Thank you all!
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no action required unless changing to/from nvidia
Step 1: Don’t buy an ARC B580 for Linux. The drivers suck and performance sucks too
Step 2: Buy an AMD card
Awesome thank you!
If it sucks Ill send it back!
You will end up with a performance regression from your 6600 on Linux
Why waste the time and money?
is battlemage that bad lol
I can confirm that you will lose performance
Well I've already brought it
It’s a Linux exclusive problem
My time isnt worth much Im not that important
Your time is worth whatever your IRL hourly wage is
eh, personally you do whatever you want with your own time
Well, my question was answered. Thank you for your input, Ill see how I get on.