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Good to know, though same could be said for ROCm + HIP for AMD. Gets a bit weird as you generally want that for OCL support too.

This may take time but Intel have extremely deep pockets, they understand the value of presence in this market, I’m sure they can and will stick to it.

There’s no stupid questions here - there’s absolutely nothing intuitive about computer ecosystems 😅

Like AMD, they use a kernel module and their user space drivers are in Mesa. If anything, you may have a better OOTB experience with Intel graphics on distros that have more recent packages, like Fedora.

A third player is absolutely welcome to the game but their share is for now still small on Windows.

The Arc Alchemist dGPU bringup has shown the world just how difficult graphics driver software is. They’ve made excellent progress lately in key areas (on both Windows and Linux) but there are are still many odd gaps to fill.

Battlemage mobile looks pretty exciting, mind you.

I mean, sure but even phoenix based OEM platforms tend to ship with win11 anyways, right? Did any of those release with win10 ootb?

Isn’t the same true for the 7950X3D?

I doubt you would have many issues using win10 on this platform if you wanted to.

It’s not very intuitive but it isn’t so bad once you’re familiar; you can take a look at this whenever’s convenient for you.

When you boot the system, you should briefly see your BIOS splash screen, along with the key combo to get into your BIOS setup menu. Let us know which mainboard vendor you have and we may be able to tell you in advance (For Asus, it’s usually F2, for Gigabyte its the Delete key, for MSI it might be F12 etc). I just mash the specified key when prompted until I’m in.

There’s usually also a key that you can hit to select a temporary boot device (I.e. I can hit F12 on my gigabyte board to select any OS detected by the BIOS, not just boot into the top entry).

Once you’re in, have a look for the ‘Boot’ section. You should have the capability to define your boot order. These entries can consist of traditional disks connected via SATA/SCSI/m.2, USB drives, network locations etc.

You can arrange this boot order however you like.

I would also recommended temporarily disconnecting any existing drives when installing an OS on your system (e.g.: Windows attempts to store its bootloader on SATA 0 by default, even if the OS isn’t destined for that drive).

I’d recommend separate physical disks if possible. Set your boot order via uefi

Strix Point is a monolithic die APU, though to your point, it’s comprised of a variety of IP (CPU, GPU, NPU, IO / SoC functionality) from across the business.

Strix Halo is rumoured to be a multi-chip product.

That’s fair enough, though one of the characteristics I had in mind was also battery life (that said, it would be at a given level of performance so either way).

Also definitely not thrilled about things like ME, Pluton and so on.

We’re a ways away from reaching equivalent performance characteristics of the currently available options they have with RISC V, but I would also love to see that as well.

big fan of Hulshult’s work on IDKFA, DUSK and Prodeus. Would love to see them directly involved with DOOM.

Appreciate the insight

It’d be telling if later iterations of idtech (should it continue to develop) switch away from Vulkan on desktops.

Would be a difficult move considering how ruthlessly performant it is at present.

God damn I didn’t expect to ever see that again. Brill

Kind of sad how the proprietor of DirectX owns one of the best Vulkan API game engine implementations in the industry.

These newer modules are lower profile than SODIMM, and do not carry the same frequency/ throughput and latency limitations. LPCAMM effectively eliminates the need to solder RAM to mobile platform main boards, though we’ll see how vendors react.

I get you but that’s not what the commenter above is looking for.

I know the Index is fantastic and I’m truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).

We can’t let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.

They’re thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system