No comments on laptops? I've had an MSI GS43VR (GTX1060) and now a Thinkpad T480 (MX150) that neither can boot a liveCD (Ubuntu or Fedora) without blacklisting nouveau.
And although I do have the MX150 T480, DON'T BUY IT for linux. Nvdia driver shows a slowdown temp of 97C (and keeps clocks at 1600MHz), but thinkpad EC will trigger a CPU 200MHz and GPU 400MHz when CPU does a moderate workload with GPU @ 75C (CPU full-to-idle temp difference is about 30C, so I assume CPU gets to 100C). And this happens before fan spins-up. My workaround is: fan full-speed, underclock MX150 to -200/-2000 and HyperThreading disabled.
And although I do have the MX150 T480, DON'T BUY IT for linux. Nvdia driver shows a slowdown temp of 97C (and keeps clocks at 1600MHz), but thinkpad EC will trigger a CPU 200MHz and GPU 400MHz when CPU does a moderate workload with GPU @ 75C (CPU full-to-idle temp difference is about 30C, so I assume CPU gets to 100C). And this happens before fan spins-up. My workaround is: fan full-speed, underclock MX150 to -200/-2000 and HyperThreading disabled.
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