Intel CPUs are awesome. amirite?

The solution is to check benchmarks and prices before buying anything.

by Healthy-Bill 2 days ago

This, brand doesn't matter. It's the price/performance metric that is the most important. Most sane people would buy Tesco branded chips if it delivered the same performance for half the price.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Who is buying 4k monitors that cant afford an X3D cpu? Having the absolute best gaming cpu for a few hundred isn't bad at all, especially with how expensive gpu are.

by gutkowskimadise 2 days ago

I hope nobody! That's why I said you'd have to be crazy to make that choice. Only people who only game and never do anything productive should be choosing AMD IMHO.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Definitely unpopular!

by CaregiverOwn2066 2 days ago

Only the most unpopular opinions are good enough.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I might have the most hated chip of the last 3 years (14900K). It's a cooling nightmare, but the performance is great. Intel needs to do better, and the community should ALWAYS demand more. AMD used to get bashed constantly, products weren't good enough. That's the cycle, and I'm happy people are vocal, it's for your own benefit.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Fellow bagholder I see...

by Dazzling-Good-9449 2 days ago

Advanced money destroyer

by Noemyhodkiewicz 2 days ago

Very few people are 100%-ing their CPU 24/7, but if that's you AMD is better. On the flip side, Intel fares better near idle, and a lot of folk at home are browsing the web a high percentage of the time. Not many people looking at gaming CPUs are going small form factor, so I'm not sure that really matters.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Idk, I know a lot of gamers personally who bought small form factor PCs in the past year alone. I live in a country where space is a premium, so smaller PCs are much better. I don't run my PC 24/7, but I went AMD because any reduction in heat means I don't cook myself alive in my hot and humid climate. Less power draw means I save on power, and less heat output means I save on energy required for room cooling.

by Asleep-Discount 2 days ago

You live in a country where everyone wants small form factor ... but your username is the 95W TDP Intel Xeon E5? ...

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I don't understand how that relates? I got my username because Intel was better and E5 as a number had a lot of significance to me in 2014. People here have started getting SFF PCs because it's now actually viable with power efficient CPUs, much cheaper higher capacity NVME drives, and very affordable parts in general. My sister's been using an ITX build since 2021 and it's come in really handy because she moves around a lot. The days of expansion cards are long gone. I'm one of the few who still actively look for larger cases, but that's because I'm lazy to get a NAS.

by Asleep-Discount 2 days ago

I just bought a family friend a $300 beelink 6800H SER5, so don't get me wrong, mini PCs have their place. I just don't think most people trying to eek out 250 FPS are running SSF.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

My sister does competitive gaming. Her partner is pushing 360fps on competitive titles. 2 of my friends do sim racing and do high refresh rate gaming. My childhood friend recently built a PC with a 4090 and 7800x3d to play games on his 240Hz oled monitor. I really don't think there's a correlation between SFF and searching for a specific FPS. People get whatever fits their needs aesthetically and get whatever fits their needs FPS wise.

by Asleep-Discount 2 days ago

What is this the 2010s?

by everette00 2 days ago

No, the year is 2025.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I think people tend towards AMD because they don't change the motherboard socket very often so you know you can upgrade every few years.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Still changing socket every years despite not being leader anymore, endless vulnerabilities which reduce performance after patches and now degradation issues (cpu is no longer most reliable part) - I will pass

by Shot-Wolverine 2 days ago

Patches on the 265k? None that I know of... Nor does the Vmin Shift Instability apply... so... ? They do better but, too bad, last time they did bad? AMD has screwed the pooch multiple times, too. They just dealt with the EntrySign flaw affecting all Zen-Zen 5 CPUs... but Intel having flaws is somehow worse? If your BIOS is older than 2024-12-17, you are guaranteed to be affected. AMD also had... The 2024 Sinkclose flaw. The 2023 Inception and Zenbleed flaws. The 2022 SQUIP and Retbleed flaws. The 2020 Take A Way unfixable flaw. The 2018 Ryzenfall / Masterkey / Fallout / Chimera flaw etc. etc. etc.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

amen to that. intel really cant and shouldnt die, until nvidia or some other player enters the market. just like i appreciate the fact that intel entered the GPU market.

by Eladio63 2 days ago

I sure hope we get other options for GPU's. paying $2000 for a 5080 is insane.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I know nothing about gaming. But I understood that Intel's virtualization technology at the moment is still more mature than AMD's, which is a benefit when you want to run a high number of VMs on the same platform (or a lower number but with high performance demands).

by Anonymous 2 days ago

written either by someone who got an intel cpu in a prebuilt gaming pc, MAGAtard who is embracing the US government owning 10% of the company, or someone who works at intel

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Lol, no, I build all my own PCs from scratch and have been since I built my first 80286 as a tweenager in the 80s.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

And still think that Intel is good xD smh

by Jocelyn04 2 days ago

Yup!

by Anonymous 2 days ago

If you cant tell the difference between 250 fps and 280 you choose the platform that has future upgrade options. Also saying intel cpus are awesome and only talking about one is a bit funny

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I think you can't make an unpopular opinion when it's either or, like AMD and Intel have a monopoly on the CPU manufacturing market, so you can't really make an unpopular opinion here when you don't have a lot of different choices here

by Anonymous 2 days ago

It's because how upgradeble amd is that's why people consider them better than Intel hey Intel is awesome though my i7-6600u is good

by brainjones 2 days ago

I think AMD is more forgivable with upgrading their CPUs and maintaining the same mobo. Intel shipped K-series 13th/14th Gen which are inherently flawed, and a good reason why the company should not have a future.

by Cronaagnes 2 days ago

But the thing is, that there is little to no point in upgrading. Just buy medium CPU and it is good for next 3-5 years. After that period, it does not make much sense to not upgrade all/most components, including motherboard

by Euphoric-Sandwich 2 days ago

Copium

by Anonymous 2 days ago