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Yeah GPUs are really tough to come by these days. The newest ones are really expensive, and also being sold by con artists who just want to scam people out of their money. I got the 5700XT back when the prices were pretty fair, but even lately, these ones are still hard to come by at a fair price. In some ways, it's almost as bad as the 2016 mining craze.

Nice, I hope you have fun building it! Sometimes you get good prices on the likes of the 3700x. The main thing you just want to be careful with is to not bend the pins on the CPU. Best of luck with it.

Sorry, it turns out that it has a 40-pin LVDS, and it seems only certain FHD screens will even work. I've just ordered the same model of LCD and I'll accept however it looks, as long as it doesn't have the faded left edge/corners.

Hi. I have a HP Envy 15-J, and the corners of the screen on the left side are fading on it. I'm wondering if it would be possible to replace the screen with a better one? I don't use it to game much, but the colours are so washed out on the current one that I was hoping it would be possible to use an IPS one. My laptop seems to use a 40 pin eDP, but unfortunately, I can't find any 40 pin eDP IPS ones which are 60Hz. Most of them seem to be 144Hz while not costing a lot. If the connector is the same on the 144Hz panels (same placement too), is there any reason they shouldn't work? The only thing I'd think of is possibly bandwidth limitations, though I would have guessed eDP is standard and I'm not sure if there are any other factors. I'm just wondering if anyone else has any idea who's experienced with laptops, I'm more on the desktop side of things.

The first one was a Gigabyte OC, and the second was a Sapphire Nitro + Special Edition. The issues were just how the audio would keep cutting out for a second intermittently on my LG B8, and at times it would just freeze the computer entirely. The first GPU (Gigabyte) was entirely unusable, the second (Sapphire) was pretty good at first other than having the same HDMI audio issues. After a few months, it started to do exactly what the first one done with the freezing, despite me trying three different Linux distros. I haven't had the computer freeze at all since I started using the old GTX 970, and the HDMI audio works perfectly fine. Like I said, the audio was fine on my Vega 64 also, so I'm confused as to why I've been having so many issues. It's a shame since I liked the GPU and it was really good in terms of price to performance.

Hi. I purchased an RX 5700 XT months ago, and I had non stop issues immediately. I sent it back and purchased another revision of the card. From the get go, I had the same issue as I did with the first card, the audio cutting out and in over HDMI. This happened on both Windows and Linux with both cards, and since I prefer to use Linux, I'd rather have an AMD GPU. Anyway, the first GPU had issues with crashing constantly, regardless of the OS I used, so I sent it back. The second one only had the HDMI audio issues at first without the freezing, but then after a few months, it developed the same freezing issues, so I returned it and went back to a spare GTX 970 I had for now. Do all of these RX 5700 XTs have the same issue with HDMI audio cutting out, or was I just unlucky twice? My TV is an LG B8, and I only ever had the issue with the RX 5700 XTs, it was fine when I had a Vega 64. I'm just not sure whether to chance yet another RX 5700 XT only for it to encounter the same issues again. The issue with the HDMI audio cutting out is pretty ridiculous also, it happens even if I just want to play music through the TV etc.

I ended up taking a deal for a Sapphire Nitro+ SE card since I got a good deal on it. I was going to take the Thicc III otherwise, but this one seems fine.

I know this is a bit late but it's been pretty solid. I have an issue where audio over HDMI sometimes cuts out briefly, but this only happens on my TV for some reason. It never used to happen when I had the Vega 64 or the 1070 Ti, but it also doesn't do it on anything except this TV.

Yeah even the 5700XT isn't easy to get working on Debian, though I haven't tried it on Ubuntu/Mint. I wasn't sure how outdated the dependencies would be on Ubuntu these days, but there are many things that make it more user friendly than Debian. I know there's a graphics PPA for example that always keeps the drivers up to date, making it easy to get newer hardware to work. Stuff like libc needed to be updated on Debian to allow installing the mesa dependencies on Debian, but I think the PPA would do this automatically too. This is mainly why I switched to Arch though, one thing was to see if I could get it working, and to learn things, but another was that I realised the dependencies are always kept up to date.

After testing a bit longer, it seems that this issue persists under Windows for me too. I haven't yet tried the generic audio driver, but this shows that the problem isn't just within Linux. I don't seem to get the audio dropout on my monitor via HDMI, just on the TV, which is an LG B8 OLED. I'm not too sure why the TV is being fussy or whether I can change anything to make it work properly, but the main thing for now is that the GPU itself does work properly and hasn't given me any issues with freezing or crashing this time around.

I don't think it's really that it's user unfriendly, as even the installation is pretty simple. I think it's just that Ubuntu/Mint etc. simplify some things even further. Debian would have older dependencies by default, and obtaining certain required up to date ones manually would probably have some people break the installation or just really mess up certain dependencies. People also use PPAs a lot on Ubuntu/Mint, but I think if one of those was required on Debian it could also break it, since dependencies would conflict. Saying that though, nothing says a user can't still mess up their dependencies on Ubuntu or Mint if they make a mistake. Also, Debian did confuse me like this at first when I was trying to get the ISO, but I ended up with the net installer too.

I ended up getting the Sapphire Nitro+ Special edition and it seems to be working so far. I have one small issue under Linux though which I also encountered with the other 5700XT, sometimes the HDMI audio cuts out for a second randomly. Does anyone else have any issues like this with a 5700XT under Linux?

I use SDDM and KDE myself, but it's strange how GDM was having this issue. SDDM doesn't look the greatest by default I agree, but at least it can be customised. Someone had been having similar issues with Arch on GDM, so I assume this was a bug which also affected Manjaro. Either way, at least you got it up and running. Manjaro is easier to work with than Arch itself, but it still does take some maintenance. I personally didn't really like Ubuntu, I much prefer plain Debian or Arch having tried some different distros. Of course, the learning curve is the only issue when it comes to certain distros, but you learn more eventually from working with the Linux OS.

I'm in the same boat where I'd probably like to wait until late 2020/early 2021, but I don't want to wait either, so I'm still buying a 5700XT. Maybe next year I'll still upgrade depending on the difference it makes, though I might not buy one until they've been out for a few months since new AMD GPUs often have driver issues that need fixing. EDIT: I've ordered a Sapphire Nitro+ Special Edition, probably won't have it until after the weekend though.

I know for Nvidia you need non-free, but the OP has an AMD GPU. They could also tty into their system and use pacman, so the fstab must have been correct on the previous installation.