Ras wrote: ↑Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:30 pm
JohnWoe wrote: ↑Thu Feb 04, 2021 10:27 pmI went and bought the ThinkPad with 4800U / 16GB.
Congrats! What's your score with Geekbench5 (see
https://www.geekbench.com/download/)? My 4700U machine gets 1233/6758 (single/multi) with Geekbench 5.3.2 and running on wall power, though especially the multi is unusually high for a 4700U.
What kind of CPU stats you are getting w/ your 4700U? Mine (16 CPUs) are at ~5%.
That looks a bit high, I'm typically seeing 0% via the Psensors panel applet, but that jumps to 2% as soon as I open that System Monitor window - I suspect the load is from the System Monitor application and the graph plotting itself. Otherwise, did you check via Menu -> Preferences -> Startup Appcliations that no unnecssary stuff is running? I've disabled Mintwelcome, NVidia Prime (pointless w/o NVidia graphics), System Reports, and Warpinator.
Aso, Mint's default swappiness of 60 is a bit high for desktop usage, about 20 is more reasonable.
File:
/etc/sysctl.conf
At the end of the file, add:
If you get the boot error message with the decompression (known issue in Mint), changing from LZ4 to GZIP helps:
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sudo sed -i 's/COMPRESS=lz4/COMPRESS=gzip/g' /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
And for the graphics, I got slightly smoother behaviour with this:
Path:
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
Edit/add file:
20-amdgpu.conf
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Section "Device"
Identifier "AMDgpu"
Driver "amdgpu"
Option "TearFree" "on"
Option "DRI" "3"
Option "AccelMethod" "glamor"
EndSection
Hello and thanks for valuable information!
There was so good deal on this Ryzen 7 4800U laptop. I had to pull the trigger. I have wasted more money on much worse things.
I was a little bit thinking about Gaming laptops. But plastic cases and big numpad keyboards...
To save the planet Earth mission: All "refurbished" ThinkPads were with really weak i5 (5th/6th... gen) and 500€
That didn't make any sense. I couldn't make that work. I wanted to. There was no good deals around.
I will try these speedups and run benchmarks once I get back to work. Not at the ThinkPad atm.
Already extremely fast. All basic operations I do. Encyption, zipping, compiling ... are super fast.
I like Mint because it's minimalistic and fast. That's all I want. Not bloatware and crap.
Windows 10 took 50GB of my SSD.
Installed Mint took 5GB of my SSD.
I forgot to install Linux 5.8. Once I did that all 16 CPUs went 0-1%. I posted on Reddit a screenshot:
They told me in store this is not for gaming. Rubbish. This is the best gaming machine I have ever tried.
I tried Xonotic a little bit. I went w/ Ultra settings and I'm getting stable 150 FPS. In a big map 20+ people spamming rockets like crazy.
No CPU throttling.
No heating.
Ok, I'm not competitive with all motion blur crap. But just a quick test. These 16 CPUs + Vega 8 are a monster.