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  • Let me make sure you performed the Nvidia driver install in this order:

    1. Uninstall clear any old drivers and modules
    2. Install drivers
    3. Blacklist nouveau driver to prevent race condition loading
    4. Reboot machine
    5. Run nvidia-smi to ensure everything loaded correctly

    All of that sound about right?












    1. Install powertop and run (with sudo) to see what’s consuming power. Use the tunables tab for suggestions on what can turned on or off.

    2. You’re on AMD, so your CPU scheduler should using the amd-pstate-epp module to handle power profile settings. Turn your power profile to power saving and see if your temps go down. Move up to balanced from there and see how that is.

    3. You sure you haven’t over locked anything? Try setting defaults in your BIOS.

    4. Pic of your case and components couldn’t hurt. You might just have an airflow issue




  • I hate to keep being in these threads saying the same thing, but new people need to know:

    THERE IS NO APPRECIABLE PERFORMANCE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY LINUX DISTRO FOR GAMING

    Doesn’t matter if it calls itself a “gaming” distro, or it wins by 10% in some benchmarks here and there. Any distro can be tuned like any other distro in every single way. No distro has any proprietary bits that make it better than another, and even if they did, you’d see devblogs or GitHub scripts you can one-shot to tune whatever you’re running to perform similarly.

    Save yourself from falling for the hype, and save yourself the time of sitting through videos like this.