"When Valve announced the public release of the beta for
SteamOS 1.0 "Alchemist" on Friday they listed NVIDIA graphics as a
hardware requirement, but I showed that AMD Radeon graphics with
Catalyst would work and it's possible to get Intel graphics working (or
the open-source graphics drivers in general) through a minor change to
the Linux-based SteamOS kernel parameters. After that I ran some
benchmarks and here are a few performance results comparing SteamOS 1.0
Beta to Ubuntu 13.10 with Intel HD Graphics."
Any major computer upgrade generally requires a full software reinstall too. No so if you heed the advice in the guide to Upgrading a Motherboard without Reinstalling. PCSTATS Tips
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