I agree with your assessment in general. Although, right now with a pricing error at Newegg, the 12400 is a much better deal (if you are willing to trust a shipment from a stranger in China):
You made a good choice. I personally would steer clear of the 12700 chips (anything i7 in the Alder Lake). The extra 4 E-cores really throw off what people are used to doing. If you aren't actively using the software, Windows assumes it is background, and thus the 4 weakest cores are now doing all the hard work while the 8 stronger cores sit nearly idle. While you can avoid this with workarounds, why buy a new computer and then need a ton of workarounds? Either 12900 and above or 12600 and below will work just the way you are used to it.
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Laptops have dual GPU's already and have for many years. The change by going 100% Intel or 100% AMD are the synergies they can deploy for a more powerful / faster setup between the different sectors i.e. CPU / GPU. Leveraging pathways that aren't readily usable when mixing / matching between vendors.
This article on the rise and fall of dual GPU's speaks better than I could. Dual GPU setups always have had problems with sharing a single bus, costs, micro stuttering, etc. Since this is a gaming desktop thread, the biggest problem would have been the micro stuttering when rendering different frames on different GPUs. Since they do not render at exactly the same rate, you get oscillations of long and short gaps between frames which can be highly visually distracting.
www.techspot.com
www.intel.com
Since you have no E-cores, win 11 gives you no real reason to "upgrade". I hate it, and use linux on my dual-boot box with win 11.
There is a lot of text there, but what particularly did you want to say about the topic at hand: using the iGPU that has otherwise sat idle in CPUs for decades when you have a discrete GPU?
devblogs.microsoft.com
The other thing (which may or may not make any difference) is running Android apps such as games on Windows 11. Sometimes having a bigger monitor makes a difference. But, since most apps were meant for small smartphones not everything translates well.Reduce Process Interference with Task Manager Efficiency Mode - Performance and Diagnostics
Task Manager Efficiency mode is a new feature that gives you options to ensure certain running processes won’t stress the CPU out, leading to faster foreground responsiveness and better energy efficiency. It also helps you to identify apps that are already running in Efficiency mode and are good...
One feature that may interest you in making the move to Win11. Not sure if this is available in Production yet.
What motherboard ? Many now have two CPU plugs, and if both are not connected will not post. And what slots are the ram in ? My 12700F took like 2 minutes just to post the first time.
Follow the manual and make all the connections.
The MB is itx z690m asrock. This mb only has one 8 pin cpu power cord and the atx power connector; both are in place. I pulled the ram to see if it would post without the ram.
No video. The fans are spinning (both chasis and cpu); I pulled the ram so no ram. I just want to get video post. I tried plugging hdmi connector into both the mb and the gpu. I first tried to post with just mb but no video so i added the gpu.
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