In Intel's defense they show the minimum recommended hardware for the B580. For the Intel, the minimum supported CPUs are Intel 10th Gen, and for AMD it's Ryzen 3000 (excludes 3000 series APUs). IIRC this information is on the GPU box as well.

Edit: Yeah I found the page on Intel's site.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000091128/graphics/intel-arc-dedicated-graphics-family.html

MSoft really f*cked things up with 24H2.

They may have fixed AMD CPUs problems, but everything else has gone out of the window (NVMe drives, games, Intel CPUs, printers, etc.).

While that is true, we don't know if that requirement comes from the 9000 and older Intel CPUs being too weak for the GPU, or because of BAR, as all the 10th gen processors/motherboards were able to enable it while some older boards didn't get a BIOS update to support it.

They even seem to acknowledge that after the table listing the Supported Hardware configurations:

"Additional platforms/motherboards not listed below and with Resizable BAR / Smart Access Memory enabled may also support Intel® Arc™ B-Series graphics."

@JEMC Not sure. Further testing will bear that out. That said an i5-9600K, Hardware Canucks testing, being a 6 core 6 thread CPU certainly is a factor. 10th Gen i5's like the i5-10400 are 6 core 12 thread CPUs. Even the 10th Gen i3, which as less cores at 4, still has more threads at 8. On the AMD side, the performance increase from Zen+ (2000 Series) to Zen 2 (3000 Series) was significant. Plus the Intel recommended spec page makes a point to single out 3000 Series APUs, which are Zen+, as not meeting the requirements.

The thing with 24H2 is that I'd be almost willing to bet that MS has broken mostly things they didn't support anyway, and it's the fault of devs that they relied on unsupported features.

...That said, the chances are that MS also broke other stuff. Who knows.

They did. Tons of non-gaming apps are broken from that damn update at my work place.

Granted these apps are ancient, like 90s ancient and are not getting updated or replaced.

...As a software developer, am I glad that I can use Linux at work. I don't think my colleagues have had all that much trouble with Windows either, but I do know of some issues I can generally avoid by using Linux instead of Windows, and overall, I think it's a net win for me. I only wish I could use Linux in private too, but gaming in Linux still isn't quite there for me.

Got my new PC, it seems to run well. Even at 4k, the jump from an i7-4790k to an 9800X3D is nice.

Spoiler!

Now to think about upgrading the RTX 3070.

Thanks for that tip. I cheked the firmware and the SSD was fortunately updated.

Congratz to the new PC!

Congratulations!

One thing I'm sure you didn't think about but will notice for sure is that now downloads will be faster, because the CPU deals with that and I'm sure your old CPU was holding you back.

Got them yesterday - hilarious that two banned/delisted games were part of the bundles.

Damn, whats with the SSDs recently. WD SSD I had to update the firmware too because it caused blue screen - had a blue screen upon boot up of my brand new PC back in November lmao.

Havent had an issue since I did the update though.

Congrats btw for the new gaming computer :)!