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The Intel Arc owners thread

RSR said:
Split a single slot into many, in its most basic sense.

As an example, a GPU would use a single X16 or X8 lanes from a wired X16 PCIe slot. When you use bifurcation, you can turn that same slot into an X8/X8 or X4/X4/X4/X4. This is normally found with storage devices and some GPUs that have M.2 slots on them.
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That makes sense thanks.
 
I'm not, but my understanding is that you will be having a pretty terrible time buying Arc for VR. It was the case last year, and they've had no focus on VR support in this time.

I am a big Arc fan, but buy something else for this use case.
 
I remember reading a discussion on some site about this around half a year ago. I cannot find the link but I clearly remember the Intel Arc cards do not actually have native support for VR.
I think you still need to use a program called Virtual Desktop to make the card run a VR application. So Intel Arc can be used for VR but with the extra step needed and Intel not really pushing into supporting VR, it might not be worth it.
 
I'm putting together a second PC to use at home and just ordered a Ryzen 5600. Want to pair it with a B580 but I realise that I've just missed out on it being £215 with Battlefield 6 included.

Annoying! Still have a 1060 to use will wait until there is another great deal like that
 
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I'm putting together a second PC to use at home and just ordered a Ryzen 5600. Want to pair it with a B580 but I realise that I've just missed out on it being £215 with Battlefield 6 included.

Annoying! Still have a 1060 to use will wait until there is another great deal like that
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I'm like this, I won't buy something if it's been on offer recently
 
Hopefully this driver update will improve performance on lower end CPU's. I doubt many people are pairing these with top end X3D chips the review systems are based around. I'm planning on upgrading my son's 1070ti soon so it'll be interesting to see how the B580 performs with a 5800X over PCIe 3.0.
 
Is 768 GB VRAM and 16 GPUs enough for you?

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I've been playing battlefield 6 with a 1060 6GB/2400G CPU and the performance has been pretty bad. Can't decide if I should just get the B580 for £230 now or wait for a B770 which I think is meant to come out soon. Is there any estimates on how much that will even cost?
 
Positive report of BF6 on a B580 at 4k from Reddit

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In this case, 4K lowest settings, no FG, no Upscaling is around 55 FPS average in multiplayer.
At 4K lowest settings, no FG, XeSS Performance upscaling, it's 90-100 FPS!!!! And it still looks so good.
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Regardless of buying or waiting - and there are only rumours about the B770, nothing concrete - I think you would be well advised to also upgrade your CPU to a 5700X3D. Just remember to upgrade the BIOS first.
 
Quartz said:
Positive report of BF6 on a B580 at 4k from Reddit

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Regardless of buying or waiting - and there are only rumours about the B770, nothing concrete - I think you would be well advised to also upgrade your CPU to a 5700X3D. Just remember to upgrade the BIOS first.
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I've ordered a 5600 from China for £60. Think I'm going to get a B580 for £230
 
I’ve given the issue of B770 pricing some thought and since its likely competitor will be the 16 GB RX 9060 XT, the 16 GB B770 will need to cost £299 unless it is substantially faster.
 
The Arc B50 Pro is the professional version of the Arc B570.


The RTX A1000 is about £380 from reputable sellers. A quick Google doesn't throw up a UK price for the B50 Pro but the US MSRP is $349.
 
My B580 came and I was excited to try it out today. But I think I have managed to brick my PC changing the CPU. What a nightmare it has been.

I put in the 5600 and installed the new Thermalright cooler but it kept turning off after a couple of minutes on Windows. It worked fine when only in the BIOS. I thought maybe it was overheating and I installed the cooler wrong so took it apart and did it again. Same problem. So I put in the 2400g and now there's no signal going to the screen. So maybe I damaged the 1060 by taking it out and putting it in numerous times installing the cooler. So I tried just putting the HDMI cable into the MOBO with the 2400g integrated graphics.

Still Nothing. So I cleared the CMOS and now it just keeps restarting itself. No signal and no idea.

Did I break the mobo, corrupt bios, break the GPU? I have no idea and not sure what I will do next.

Think I'll just send the 5600 and B580 back and call it a day. Nightmare night of building
 
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