I have a Dell Optiplex 3060 here, that I used as a backup desktop with Linux, but now I’m trying to use it essentially as a streaming host for games (Fallout, GTA…), unfortunately that means Windows.
And even less fortunate: Windows seems to think, fan speeds only know one direction: up.
Essentially, the machine starts nice and reasonably quite, but after some load (e.g. a game), the fans never spin down again. Even if the temps are fine (all cores at <30°C, GPU at 48°C), it keeps running in turbine mode.
The only “fix” is a sleep or power cycle.
Since this machine is supposed to run relatively long hours and sit in my room, this is quite annoying and I’m kind of out of ideas.
Newest BIOS and all the Dell Magic™ are installed.
You can stream using Sunlight (server) and Moonlight (client) on linux. What specifically are you trying to stream as it’s likely Linux will be able to play them.
https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine
Here’s how to check to see if the game you want is supported
Here’s an easy setup for gaming on linux
https://guidetechy.com/your-ultimate-guide-to-setting-up-arch-linux-for-high-end-gaming-performance
Here’s what could help with your fans on boot. However that’s a tiny machine and you might want to get a different impeller
Linux is not an option. I tried, see my other comment.
Streaming games from Linux works perfectly fine 🤷♂️
But not Windows games. Fallout barely runs at all, I tried and it’s not fun.
You could run it in a VM with GPU pass through.
…or I could just find a way to fix the fan.
But that wouldn’t help with crappy windows 😏
I had an optiplex like this. I would give the top of the case a couple taps and fans would spin down. No idea why that worked but it did it every time, hurricane winds, couple good taps to calm it back down
