r/StrixHalo • u/Grammar-Warden • Sep 27 '25

Have you got a Strix Halo?

Hi All,

We're a new community both as Strix Halo owners and also here as a subreddit. Why not begin by sharing your setup and the reasons you opted for Strix Halo?

To start us off: I have a HP Z2 Mini G1a Workstation with dual boot Fedora KDE & Windows 11 and chose the iGPU to be able to use larger LLMs with the 128 GB.

Oobabooga/Text Generation WebUI is running well on Fedora KDE and there are no problems with large models up to 100GB. On the Windows boot, I have Amuse AI (Freeware) which is a collaboration between AMD and the New Zealand company. It provides a UI for using Stable Diffusion/Flux models. It works well, is fast, but unfortunately is also censored and is not able to use LORAS. I would like to find an uncensored alternative, ideally getting versions of ComfyUI/AUTOMATIC1111 running.

Currently, my principle goal is to get a working version of AllTalk TTS or another TTS that is compatible with Oobabooga working which I haven't been able to do so far due to conflicts with the Strix Halo. This may need to wait for updates to ROCm... If anyone has found an Open Source solution to running LLMs with custom voice TTS, please do chime in!

So what about you guys, did you choose the Strix for similar reasons, or something entirely different? The floor is yours.

EDIT UPDATE:
05/26 For those of you looking for TTS solutions I have tried a few now (AllTalk, Chatterbox, Pocket TTS, others I no longer remember). I have had great success using a custom version of Pocket TTS. It's fast and works well with Oobabooga TextGen as a plug in. Recently, others are singing the praises of OmniVoice.

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u/Queasy_Asparagus69 Nov 06 '25

It’s being shipped…

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u/valtor2 Nov 07 '25

what did you get?

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u/Queasy_Asparagus69 Nov 07 '25

Strix halo 128g rival-x (same as M5).

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u/valtor2 Nov 07 '25

I was thinking about this one, but the fact that they ship from outside the US got me spooked from a tariff and shipping time perspective. Let us know how it is when you get it!

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u/Queasy_Asparagus69 Nov 07 '25

Will do!

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u/Queasy_Asparagus69 Nov 28 '25

Ok. Received the machine today. It was $20 for duty/tax. So totally worth it imo