[coreboot] 8GB graphics cards work on coreboot - in case anyone is wondering

[Jonathan Seefelder]

As for the PSU: Personally, i favor the Seasonic Prime Titanium 1000w.

I can confirm that the Radeon RX 560 and 580 work also.

Also the Nvidia 710, its probably the choice if low power is your aim(i
believe like 19w), and some other nvidia quadcore, but i would still
recommend to stay away from nvidia (they are not particular open source
friendly, more like the opposite)

cheers

On 9/30/18 11:14 AM, Matt B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One thing I just noticed about the page:
> https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/kgpe-d16
>
> Here "Crossfire XDMA" is listed as needing testing. If nobody has been
> able to test this, and you (or someone else) has the opportunity this
> might be an interesting thing to test.
>
> After learning that this board can take a more modern CPU (family 15h)
> I'm now considering it more strongly for a future computer. My K10 box
> is *currently* mitigated against Spectre V2 (IBP disabled under CentOS
> via a chicken bit) but I don't think it's wise to expect further
> mitigations to be forthcoming from AMD should more bugs rear their
> ugly head. Moving up to a family 15h CPU means getting updated Spectre
> V2-mitigating microcode and a much more realistic expectation of
> support in the immediate future. I'll probably even move up to
> piledriver (like the G505s I'm currently working on), since a
> microcode patch will also fix the NMI issue (and I'll be applying one
> to the stock microcode anyway).
>
> I'd be really interested to learn if Crossfire and other features of
> modern cards work on these older boards under coreboot, since they may
> come in REALLY handy when running any machine learning loads on these
> boards.
>
> On another note, does anyone have a favorite PSU for these boards?
> Preferably something that will last a bit longer than crappy consumer
> gear? This thing already requires two 8-pin connectors for a dual CPU
> setup, and graphics cards demand them now too.
>
> Sincerely,
>     -Matt
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 4:15 PM Mike Banon <mikebdp2 at gmail.com
> <mailto:mikebdp2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Taiidan, thank you very much for your valuable feedback! When I've
>     been thinking of getting KGPE-D16 my main concern was that some high
>     end GPUs wouldn't work for some reason and it was difficult to find
>     any info... Luckily your RX580 doesn't have a Security Processor
>     inside it ! Did you know AMD started putting this "security processor"
>     crap into their GPUs also, starting with Vega? Hopefully RX line would
>     be safe for a while, maybe I'd get RX680 when it comes out if it will
>     not be tainted by this "security" :P Wish you to get a second nice
>     Opteron one day
>     On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 10:41 PM Taiidan at gmx.com
>     <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com> <Taiidan at gmx.com
>     <mailto:Taiidan at gmx.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > I was worried that it wouldn't work for some reason like due to
>     lack of
>     > 64bit MMIO in coreboot but I just installed an AMD Raden RX580
>     8GB on my
>     > KGPE-D16 and it works great.
>     >
>     > I am playing the latest games on max settings in a VM with a GPU
>     > bottleneck at 1080p with my single 6328 CPU...it is nice to
>     finally have
>     > good smooth gameplay with high fps.
>     >
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Jonathan Seefelder

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