Discussion Intel ARC Battle Mage owners thread. iGPU counts too.

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Makes sense they would focus on that. Hopefully the keep making new dGPU's though. No new news since B570/580 right? I think there is speculation about a B7xx?

It's in shipping manifest with final silicon no news with launch date

 

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Added my B580 to 12600KF, Gigabyte Z790 S WIFI, and 4x8GB Crucial Ballistix Elite CL18 4000 I bought here.

Clean, cool, quiet, pairs well with ARC.

 

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A fair look at B580 performance, including some CPU heavy games. He uses a 12400F with 32GB 6000MT/s. I see similar performance with my 12600KF and 32GB DDR4 4000MT/s. Both CPUs are priced similarly on Amazon U.S. so pairing with the faster CPU and less expensive DDR4 is a choice.

I use a VRR TV. That helps smooth things out too. However, I'd still recommend a used 3060 12gb to gamers with this tier of CPU or lower. You get the vram, DLSS, and significantly lower driver overhead.

 

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WTF? B580 crashes repeatedly on Intel's own hardware - 12600kf system running BF6. Runs perfectly on AM5. He uses the Alder Lake test bench for a lot of weaker cards, so it isn't the system being unstable.

 

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I have a Hitman Crash bug as well my hitman crashed the entire system turns out it was outdated OEM Driver for me updating to the latest one fixed it.

 

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I have a Hitman Crash bug as well my hitman crashed the entire system turns out it was outdated OEM Driver for me updating to the latest one fixed it.

I retract my statement the platform is not the issue.

I like to use the old joke that I am too poor to pay attention. This time, I went back and paid attention. The result is I think I found the problem. Pedro has it overclocked to 5.1GHz. May not be much of an OC, but his silicon is evidently mid. He found the right combination to expose it as unstable. Gandalf CPU overhead + new CPU heavy game.