Nexxen wrote on 2026-07-26, 09:50:

I bought 2 AIOs, one for me and one for my father. I didn't bother using the thermal paste it came with and just removed it put […]
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I bought 2 AIOs, one for me and one for my father.
I didn't bother using the thermal paste it came with and just removed it put GD-900 for my father's. Low temps, all good. He doesn't do much and no hardcore gaming (naval stuff mainly).
Improvement was noticeable, air was good too though.

Is the paste they put on usually any good? I don't talk what's best, that would be top level pastes.
I use GD-900 and GD-2 for me, generally never has issues.

I tried hard to make the LCD screen on my AIO work in Linux as well.
Nothing, I have a nice display changing color, might as well put back a USB 2.0 bracket instead of this.

Linux is widespread, why wouldn't they put out drivers that work with it?

Well, I switched from an RX 6600 8GB card to an RX 9060XT 16GB card in my primary gaming system.

Still running a Ryzen 5600X and 32GB RAM on the B450 platform, meaning I'm limited to PCIe Gen3, but this card only looses about 8% performance, at most, with that bottleneck in place. Still a huge step up from the 6600, and the 6600 is a fantastic card in my opinion. I really only wanted the 9060 becasue I wanted a 16GB card for some specific games, and it was the cheapest and best out there for the price I was looking at. I'm quite happy with it. Just as a baseline, my Time Spy graphics score more than doubled.

The 9060 is also a full x16 card, where the 6600 is an x8. If I had got an x8 card of some kind, the PCIe Gen3 bottleneck would have been considerably worse.

I'm considering moving to B550 just to move to PCIe Gen4, we will see. No way I'm building an AM5 platform right now with RAM prices as they are. Going to B550 would remove that PCIe bottleneck and I could still use my current Ryzen 5600X and DDR4 RAM. Time will tell.