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There may be some similar threads, but they are rather old.

I've recently been having a nightmare with Nvidia and Ubuntu with my specific motherboard. I ended up going for a new motherboard and AMD GPU instead.

My old GPU was the EVGA GTX1650. After asking around, there was some pretty good software called GreenWithEnvy that allowed me to set extremely specific profiles for fan speed and GPU temperature. I don't want to mess around trying to overclock memory - my main priority is to try and get the fans to be quieter.

My new card is the AMD MSI RX6500XT. The cooling is actually pretty impressive compared to my old card. However, the default profile is too loud for me to tolerate.

In windows, there is AMD radion software that more or less lets me do what i want, although doesn't allow you to be as specific as GreenWithEnvy did.

From the tests that I did with the software on windows, this cards GPU temperature stays well under 70 degrees even when gaming and I had set the fan speed to 34% (and interestingly 30% is the lowest they can go). 50% and over sounds ridiculous to me. My whole aluminium case starts resonating like an engine when they run this high unless i stand it on foam. I would rather they stayed at the same RPM when gaming until it gets closer to running a little to hot. For me, low noise is more important than overclocking to get the best visual performance.

From what I can tell, there isn't much in the way of programs for Open source cards and overclocking them, and I don't have much understanding of doing things by the command line.

I will mainly be gaming in windows, but I would like the ability to set more or less the same profile for the GPU fans in Linux too as the default is just too loud.

Thanks.

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Seems like you need to be able to create a custom fan curve. Try Corectrl, rather simple and has gui.

just image from internet but corectrl gui

  1. Add PPA

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ernstp/mesarc

  2. Update

    sudo apt-get update

  3. Install Corectrl

    sudo apt install -y corectrl

If you want to remove the package and the repository

sudo apt remove corectrl

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ernstp/mesarc

I can also recommend Radeon Profile, but I don’t think it has custom fan curve.

this is radeon profile

  1. Add PPA

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:radeon-profile/stable

  2. Update

    sudo apt-get update

  3. Install

    sudo apt install -y radeon-profile

If you want to remove package and repository

sudo apt remove radeon-profile

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:radeon-profile/stable

Edit: You can get gnome tweaks which is an extended settings package essentially. In it you will be able to set programs to launch at startup easily.

And yes you should also be able to set the fan curve to exactly the same as in windows if you want. I don't know if you can copy directly with a file or anything but just try to set the same fan curve and it will be fine.

Christian Fritz
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You could try a program called LACT. It works really well with AMD GPUs, not so much with nVidia. Image to temperature curve is below.

Link to the program is here: https://github.com/ilya-zlobintsev/LACT enter image description here

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