AMD Radeon R9 Nano

[tle]

I've just replaced my AMD Radeon Vega 64 with the old AMD Radeon R9 Nano. I was considering the Pro WX 7100 card but decided not to go with that because of $.

The R9 Nano is much smaller in form factor and thus produces less heat. R9 Nano does not support H265 decoding. For now I could live with that as long as I could watch YouTube and play 3D open sourced games.

The card is fully compatible with amdgpu driver (Linux 5.6.14 on Fedora 32). I have to disable the onboard VGA and remove the AST GPU Xorg config snippet and let the Linux driver auto-detect my screen settings.

As you could see in the photo, the 8X PCI-E NVMe adapter card is so close to the GPU fan, I don't think it is ideal for heat dissipation. 

[tle]

I also tested to see if Fiji firmware could be loaded correctly under Petitboot. The good news is it works when the Petitboot kicks in. However I did not get any video output in the earlier stage. Wondering if anyone could point me to where I could find more details on that issue?

[q66]

any reason to have your CPU fan blow hot air straight down into the GPU?

[ClassicHasClass]

Masochism? 

[tle]

any reason to have your CPU fan blow hot air straight down into the GPU?

Thanks for pointing that out. I am still learning how to change the fan direction.

[MPC7500]

Remove the black housing. There is only one screw. Flip the fan, mounting the black housing back.

[tle]

Remove the black housing. There is only one screw. Flip the fan, mounting the black housing back.

Yes, I have done that. However I am still not happy with the outcome. Now all the hot air from the GPU gets suck into the CPU fan.

[q66]

doesn't really matter, it's still better than blowing hot air down only to have it instantly rise up and linger

[tle]

doesn't really matter, it's still better than blowing hot air down only to have it instantly rise up and linger

Yes, it is.

I am going to live with that setup for now. My plan is to find someone locally who could do laser cutting service so I could design some sort of compatible adaptor to mount water cooler heatsink.

[surf]

My plan is to find someone locally who could do laser cutting service so I could design some sort of compatible adaptor to mount water cooler heatsink.

There is a thread about water cooling:

https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,110.0.html

The heatsinks sold by Raptor have IBM part numbers.  I wonder if they can get the water cooling blocks from IBM also.

[helen]

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The heatsinks sold by Raptor have IBM part numbers.  I wonder if they can get the water cooling blocks from IBM also.

That would be great, I want one too 

While it`s probably not too difficult to make a custom adapter for an off the shelves block. I fear it won't provide the proper pressure to ensure reliable contact on all the cpu pins over time.

Btw: My first post here, hello all! Great forum 

[ClassicHasClass]

Welcome, helen.