“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.
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.
“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.