The Stout Nerd ep. 184: Valve Steam Deck, Intel Alder Lake rumors, DirectStorage on Home windows 10

In this episode of The Stout Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, and Adam Patrick Murray are help in the saddle, broadcasting dwell from our studio for the important time in a long time. And we had a heaping helping of delectably geeky topics for our big return.

First, we kick things off with a fresh spherical of “Alder Lake” rumors about Intel’s radical upcoming 12-gen Core chips, which is ready to be constructed the use of a mix of big cores and minute cores working collectively to optimize efficiency need to you wish it and energy need to you don’t.

After that, we dive deep into Valve’s honest-launched Steam Deck handheld, which is esteem a Nintendo Swap constructed by (and for) PC nerds. Beyond the specs and efficiency hypothesis, we also wade into who the Steam Deck is for, whether it would work with an eGPU, why it has a a lot better likelihood of success than Steam Machines ever did, and how Valve’s decade-long investments in Linux gaming and bespoke hardware are in the damage paying off.

In the damage, yes, there’ll seemingly be a cloud model of Home windows quickly. However splendid industry kinds need to care about it. PC enthusiasts need to care more about Microsoft bringing its subsequent-gen DirectStorage tech to Home windows 10 in living of locking it the total formula down to Home windows 11. Props, Redmond. We recap what DirectStorage does and why the Home windows 10 toughen if truth be told issues correct now.

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