Just buy an AMD CPU. One person’s experience isn’t the world. Nobody in my circle has had an issue with any chip from AMD in recent time (10 years).

Intel is just bad at the moment and not even worth touching.

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danieldk 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I agree that Intel is bad at the moment (especially with the 13th and 14th gen self-destruct issues). But unfortunately I also know plenty of people with issues with AMD systems.

And it's no bad power quality on mains as someone suggested (it's excellent here) or 'in the air' (whatever that means) if it happens very quickly after buying.

I would guess that a lot of it comes from bad firmware/mainboards, etc. like the recent issue with ASRock mainboards destroying Ryzen 9000-series GPUs: https://www.techspot.com/news/108120-asrock-confirms-ryzen-9... Anyone who uses Linux and has dealt with bad ACPI bugs, etc. knows that a lot of these mainboards probably have crap firmware.

I should also say that I had a Ryzen 3700X and 5900X many years back and two laptops with a Ryzen CPU and they have been awesome.

	▲	J_Shelby_J 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		All of my friends who are on AMD have had issues over the past three years. My belief is that it is in the memory controllers and the XMP profiles provided with RAM. It’s very easy for the XMP profiles to be overly optimistic or for the RAM to degrade overtime and fall out of spec. Meanwhile, my intel systems are solid. Even the 9900k hand me down I have to my partner. There is an advantage to using very old tech. And they’re not even slower for gaming: everything is single core bottlenecked anyways. Only in the past year or so that AMD had surpassed in single core performance, but we are talking single digit percentage differences for gaming. I’m glad AMD has risen, but the dialogue about AMD vs intel in the consumer segment is tainted by people who can’t disconnect their stock ownership from reality.

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tester756 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is funny because recently my AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D died and I've decided that my next CPU will be Intel

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043269

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_zoltan_ 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

that's a pretty bad decision $/perf wise I'd wager. AMD decidedly owns the desktop space, and deserves so.

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tester756 4 days ago | parent [-]

wdym?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_alltime.html

CPUs like Intel Core Ultra 7 265K are pretty close to top Ryzens

	▲	Panzer04 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Intel CPUs are decidedly better value when multicore performance is a concern. At the top end they trade blows. If your workload is pointer-chasing intel's new CPUs aren't great though, and the X3D chips are possibly a good pick (if the workload fits in cache) which is why they get a lot of hype from reviewers who benchmark games and judge the score 90% based on that performance.

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homebrewer 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This Intel?

https://youtu.be/OVdmK1UGzGs

https://youtu.be/oAE4NWoyMZk

	▲	tester756 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's been year ago, my AMD CPU died very recently

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hedora 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I went further and got an AMD system on chip machine with an integrated gpu. It’s fine for gaming and borderline for LLM inference (I should have put 64GB in instead of 32GB).

The only issues are with an intel Bluetooth chipset, and bios auto detection bugs. Under Linux, the hardware is bug for bug compatible with Windows, and I’m down to zero known issues after doing a bit of hardware debugging.

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johnisgood 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That is what I thought, thanks.