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Do Intel or AMD forbid you from mixing and matching wifi cards ? Why the unnecessary fragmentation ?
by bubblethink 3y ago
Do Intel or AMD forbid you from mixing and matching wifi cards ? Why the unnecessary fragmentation ?
- nrp 3y agoThere is no specific commercial restriction preventing us from mixing and matching, but there is also no commercial/technical support from either party around the mixed solution. That means that if any issues come up, we have no path to resolving them, including crucially if we ran into issues during RF certifications.
- hypercube33 3y agoiirc Intel has a line of cards that only work on their CPU lines and otherwise, Intel seems to have soft blocked their compatible cards from OEMs - we can't get AMD laptops with Intel nics anymore where I work from all vendors. Otherwise nope - I run Intel ax cards in all of my laptops (HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, surface laptop 4 -- came with Intel) and they are solid in windows and Linux.
- heavyset_go 3y ago> Intel has a line of cards that only work on their CPU lines Intel sells CNVi versions of their WiFi module lineups that only work on chipsets that support it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNVi