"I'm going back to AMD" isn't really the statement you think it is in 2024. Ever since Ryzen AMD has been kicking ass and there is no reason not to buy them. It isn't a bold choice or a statement, it's a fucking CPU.
Yeah this article is like 5 years late.
It was the same way in the early 00s.
I had my old Athlon 800 running at 1200mhz, that old Thunderbird ran a bit hot but super fast. Big ass heatsink right on the bare die (which was the style at the time), it creaked any time you wanted to mount the heatsink.
AMD ruled back then, when Athlon 64 came out it blew my mind. When Socket 754 came out it was like the big boy CPU but affordable. My friends with Pentium 4 Preshotts were jealous, those things ran slow and hot, I was zooming. It wasn't till Phenom AMD started falling off.
Their lack of a thermal regulator was a double edge sword. You could run them hot and fast but I had a heat sink fail (manufacturing defect) and my processor became a smoldering pile of slag.
They kinda dropped the budget segment a few years back, which is why I went with Intel at that time. But yeah, in regards to CPUs I'm not that brand picky because there's not much differences besides the price to performance ratios & power consumption / heat generation.
First thing everybody has to learn about computers: Don't get attached to a brand/company.
2015 the core i7 gave me the most performance for my money. Last year it was the 7800x3D.
I had mostly AMD GPUs, but last year I got a 4700 because it's power consumption was unbeatable for the performance it has.
Always buy the best stuff you can get for your money, don't give a fuck about the companies.
Yes. Look at cost-benefit-ratios.
For my requirements it has mainly been AMD in the past (and ATI when it still existed), because usually, intel and Nvidia charge you much more money and don't really delivered that much more benefits for what I was looking for. They charge more, because they can, as they are dominating their respective markets.
However, there might sometimes be factors which would still lead to a higher benefit compared to AMD. All depends on your requirements and how much you would benefit by the respective device.
Always buy the best stuff you can get for your money, don't give a fuck about the companies.
I'd add to this but just performance per dollar ... but also things like:
You can (if you're in a comfortable position to ask this) also ask:
If we collectively decide to punish bad companies by not buying their product just because they made their product a slightly better deal ... I think we're all a bit better off.
Welcome back to the good side.
Corporations aren't your friend. I like what AMD is doing right now so I'll buy them.
But there are situations like media servers where Intel is a better choice because its integrated GPU that can do video encoding/decoding at a much higher speed and lower watts than AMD.
Totally! My Plex server uses a 10th Gen i7 for exactly that reason. I just switched to an AM5 CPU for my main gaming rig though, and it is awesome! Only minor gripe is that it doesn't have Thunderbolt (doesn't affect me on that PC though)
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