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  • Re: replacement video card

    From Dan Ritter@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, June 09, 2026 21:50:01
    Eben King wrote:
    Hi, I have Debian 12 "Bookworm" currently, and my video card is an Nvidia
    GTX 970. While I'm happy with its speed, I'm not happy with the proprietary nature of its driver, nor its brokenness (1). So, I seek a replacement card whose driver is in the mainline kernel (2). I've heard AMD and Intel GPUs are generally not bad. Do you have any further recommendations or anti-recommendation? Thanks.

    1: Its fans don't work, so I wrote a script to modulate the case fans and
    CPU throttle based on its temperature.

    2: If you wish to recommend a particular card, keep in mind that cheap is imperative (like <$150 cheap), used is OK, and I have three monitors.

    I'm using an AMD RX580 to drive a 4K, a 1920x1200 and a
    1920x1080 monitor on Debian stable. They typically come with one
    HDMI and 3 DisplayPort connectors; there are reasonably cheap
    connectors for DP->HDMI or DVI.

    Newegg has some available in the $110-140 range, mostly from
    vendors nobody has ever heard of.

    Uses the open amdgpu driver and the firmware-amd-graphics package.

    -dsr-

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  • From Felix Miata@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 00:00:01
    Eben King composed on 2026-06-09 15:18 (UTC-0400):

    Hi, I have Debian 12 "Bookworm" currently, and my video card is an
    Nvidia GTX 970. While I'm happy with its speed, I'm not happy with the proprietary nature of its driver, nor its brokenness (1). So, I seek a replacement card whose driver is in the mainline kernel (2). I've heard
    AMD and Intel GPUs are generally not bad. Do you have any further recommendations or anti-recommendation? Thanks.

    1: Its fans don't work, so I wrote a script to modulate the case fans
    and CPU throttle based on its temperature.

    2: If you wish to recommend a particular card, keep in mind that cheap
    is imperative (like <$150 cheap), used is OK, and I have three monitors.

    I bought https://www.ebay.com/itm/198406888174 a year ago from eBay seller semsotai2017. Sensors temp current/idling on Bookworm is 50C versus high of 95C. I
    can tell PC is on, but not which fan is loudest. None are annoyingly loud, but I
    definitely know when PC is turned on. When I use it, it's usually with 3 displays,
    and running on pure FOSS drivers. All other PCs I use with 3 displays at once are
    running on AMD or Intel iGPUs' motherboard's graphics ports.
    --
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    based on faith, not based on science.

    Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

    Felix Miata

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