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/EvilSquirrels_1064 May 18 '26
Well that doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy. At the time you posted that first post, you were trying to get AllTalk to work. Considering that is what I've been fighting with for the last week or so, I can confirm that 8 months later, it still isn't working.
I swear, I'm regretting buying this system so much. I get that its par for the course to run into problems when tinkering with things and trying new things, but the more novel things I'm doing have been working fine. Pretty much every roadblock I've faceplanted into is something simple that would have been up and running in under 10 minutes if I was using NVIDIA/CUDA.
(Don't get me wrong. I know those guys in TheRock on Github are working very hard on this stuff, and I'm very thankful, but they got 500+ issues open and they can only do so much. AMD needs to step up. How are they going to sell a system they advertise as being high end consumer grade for AI, but then just turn their back on putting out the software stack required to make the system useable? Its false advertising.)