SevagH

What are the devices? Again, don't you think it's reasonable to place some blame on your device manufacturer for not spending a dime on Linux driver development rather than criticizing open source contributors for using their free time to attempt to do what the device manufacturer should have done?

How difficult can it be to search "how to set primary display gnome" on Google and follow instructions? Anyway, realize that bad Linux device driver support/availability is the fault of the device manufacturer, solely. If you're lucky an unpaid Linux contributor decided to take time out of his day to write a driver for your device from scratch so you could complain that it's not as good as the drivers the manufacturer actually spent resources on developing for Windows.

From reading the log, the relevant error seems to be the missing libSM.so.6. The first search result I get from google reveals that installing this package, "lib32-libsm", might help.

I'm more surprised about the Nvidia vs. AMD vitriol. Yes, currently (and for a while now actually) Intel dominates the performance charts and the prices of Intel and AMD products reflect that - no arguments. But when it comes to video cards, I'm baffled because I genuinely don't remember a point in time (and I've been building computers since the ATI Radeon 9200SE - so about 2003?) that Nvidia wiped the floor with AMD (or ATI when they were still ATI) the way Intel is doing right now. In fact, right now AMD is doing very well in the video card department - the 290 and 290X better than the 780/780Ti at a similar price-point to the 770. So yeah I don't really know where the "Nvidia completely destroys AMD" meme comes from because in my lifetime I have not seen Nvidia destroy AMD (or ATI).

fdisk should do the trick. fdisk /dev/sdc p (print the partitions) n (make a new one, specify the appropriate options) w (write your changes) exit fdisk Then: mkfs.partitiontype on the partition you created (if you created one, it would be /dev/sdc1). If you don't have mkfs, maybe you have to install the package. As a side note/hint, looking for GUI versions of things in Linux might bring more pain than benefit, because most of the standard, well-supported, well-documented, powerful and popular Linux programs (fdisk, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump, grep, sed, whatever) are command-line. Better would be to use Google to figure out how to do things. You could easily search "mkfs.ext4 package not found" error and learn A) how to fix it and B) how to diagnose and fix it next time. "How to partition usb stick linux" would probably give you a good result on Stackoverflow about how to use fdisk. That's how I recommend you learn Linux. Imitate answers given on forums online until you're comfortable enough to figure stuff out on your own (with manpages or --help/-h options or what have you).

Munchies (those mixed chips with pretzels, Sun chips, and Doritos). Not really potato though.

Automatic 10 for the 144Hz monitor. 4690k @ 4.5Ghz/1.235V with Swiftech H220 Gigabyte Z97-UD5H 16GB Patriot DDR3-1866 (2x8) 240GB PNY XLR8 SSD + 640GB WD Caviar Black HDD EVGA 750W Supernova G2 Fractal Arc Midi R2 144Hz BenQ XL2411Z Video card is in limbo currently, since I have to RMA my Club3D R9 290. I'll probably settle on a GTX 770 ultimately.

According to the Devil Canyon benchmarks I read, there are real clock-for-clock performance improvements between the different Intel Core generations (2x vs 3x vs 4x).

I can't speak for every Devil Canyon chip but I have a 4690k at 4.5GHz with 1.235Vcore stable (Swiftech H220). I have some other settings, Vring, uncore and stuff that I have written down if you want the details.

I didn't want to make a new thread for this as it should be a short question. If a graphics card (GTX 770) has been folded on for 1 year (I think 24/7), would that deteriorate the card's lifespan/performance/integrity in a noticeable way?

I make my living on Linux. I actually work for an open-source engineering firm where everybody uses Linux and the preferred distro by a mile is Fedora. If you find yourself hating the distros you choose, I'd say give Fedora a shot. Using Linux is a pain sometimes but the user experience has improved. For example, Flash used to be a nightmare but now it comes with Chrome. Linux still has a learning curve - to install Chrome on Fedora for example, it's not an official Fedora package so you have to add the repository manually. There's plenty of guides on how to do it but if one is unfamiliar with the command line and to just install the most popular web browser on the planet they need to mess around with the terminal, I can see where frustration can occur and where people say "screw this, I'm going back to Windows". In any case, the tradeoff for the difficult initiation of Linux is that once you're comfortable with it, the sky's the limit for what you can accomplish.

Thanks guys. I requested the RMA. Does anybody know what happens if you already redeemed your Radeon free gift games? Will NCIX cut some value off the refund?

This is disappointing quality control on a $400 product. I've actually used Club3D before but in a more low-key purchase (R7 265 for a budget computer). I think I will choose the RMA refund option. Can anybody suggest a reliable model of the R9 280X or R9 290 (or GeForce GTX 770, I have no brand loyalty)? I've received two bad video cards in a row and just want something that works. I wonder if I'm unlucky or video cards have a lower level of quality control than other computer components? The only things in my life that I've ever had to RMA are video cards (this will be my 4th RMA out of 6 video cards).

Hello guys. I recently purchased a Club3D R9 290 from NCIX. Upon installing it in my computer, 2 out of the 3 fans are always ramped up to 100%. The auto fan control of AMD Catalyst is only working on 1 of the 3 fans (as well as MSI Afterburner), so that 1 fan responds like a normal video card fan should (quiet on 10%, as loud as the other 2 fans on 100%). From the moment the computer switches on the 2 fans are at 100% and my computer sounds like a vacuum cleaner. Steps I tried: 1) Testing a different card in the same PC. I borrowed a friend's MSI R9 280X (with 2 fans) and that works totally fine. 2) Trying a different PCI-E slot on my motherboard. 3) Trying a different power supply. The card plays games fine and runs stress tests fine with no artifacts or crashes. It seems like a working card aside from this problem. I contacted NCIX who approved of the RMA, but since I have a few days left before the RMA expires, I wanted to wait and see if I could solve the problem at home. On a side note, does anybody have experiences with Club3D technical support? I have e-mailed Club3D (by sending them an e-mail at nasupport@Clubwho-3d.com, like their website instructs), but they haven't replied. Other specs: i5 4690k, Gigabyte Z97-UD5H, 16GB DDR3, PNY XLR8 SSD, EVGA Supernova G2 750W Thanks, Sevag