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Exploring the Windows 7 Anime CD!

If I ever run across a computer having that theme with those sounds...

MSI & ASUS Amongst 1st-Wave Global OEMs To Offer Intel Arc A380 & A310-Powered Gaming PCs

https://wccftech.com/msi-asus-amongst-1st-wave-oems-to-offer-intel-arc-a380-a310-powered-gaming-pcs/

Those are very impressive prices. A380 costing only $129-$139 is very cheap. The only question is how long till they get their drivers together. On one hand, I want to recommend it because a GPU having 6GB of Vram, 8 PCI-E lanes, AV1 and various encoder/decoder support, etc for only $129-$139 is pretty crazy. On the other hand... Drive problems and lots of them.

So on the hardware front, Intel would be the easy choice against 6400 or even 6500XT but it's hard to recommend them with all the driver problems the user is going to have. Reminds me of the good old Ryzen 1000 where there were a lot of issues at launch but boy the prices were insane. But a GPU relies a lot more on drivers than CPU so its a very much, "Support the underdog" sort of an audience.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 31 July 2022