I just want to reply to this here, since it seems more relevant:
This is a really good question, and I used to would go for Intel for the sole reason I wanted to toy around with overclocking and it was much easier for me to overclock my Intel Core 2 Duo than it was my AMD Phenom CPU at the time.
Our first computer that came with Windows 3.1 had an Intel Pentium in it that ran at 75MHz, if my memory serves correctly. Our first custom built computer had like a 900MHz AMD Slot A style of Athlon in it. Though by the time I built my first computer back in I believe is 2006, it was an AMD Athlon 64. Then later was the Phenom before I switched to Intel with my C2D. I later got the i7 2600k, and I stuck with Intel up until AMD came out with their Ryzen series, well, I waited a bit until the 3000 Ryzen series. I'm now using the Ryzen 5900X.
All in all, I want to say AMD because Intel has had some very shady practices over the years, and they were not innovating or moving things further until AMD began putting them to shame. We need good competition in the CPU world and AMD helped re-enforce that with providing solid products.
And with as much of a mess Intel is in
again now? I mean it's a no brainer I choose AMD.
Just look at this covering Intel's nonsense:
I would also choose AMD personally for several reasons. Ever since the Ryzen 3000 series came out, AMD basically seemed to have been walking it. That's not to say Intel hasn't been releasing decent CPUs of course, but AMD have been giving the best price to performance by far, and it would make absolutely no sense to me to pay more money for the same performance, with the only logical reason being that maybe you don't want to buy a new motherboard. That being said, you essentially have to do that anyway if you're going to buy the latest CPU, given the socket types have changed, and you will need to get DDR5.
Now to that video you shared, "nonsense" is definitely the right word for it. What the hell are they talking about to act like "oh you're 15 now you're a big boy, time to buy an i9", and even going as far as to say maybe a 5 year old uses an i3? Like, what the hell is that?
The amount of hypocrisy in the video is unbelievable, coming from a company like Intel. Honestly, that's shameful in my opinion, and they should be better than this. Sure as Steve mentioned, AMD might be releasing a "refresh", but of course, Intel are leaving out the numerous times they did the
exact same thing. What's worse, is they did it
even more times, and as Steve also mentions, they have literally released so many 14nm CPUs that it's ridiculous they even think they have the right to say releasing a refresh is such a bad thing when another company does it.
Those contradictions too, like "latest isn't always the best", then proceeding to state their own technology is the latest and greatest... WHAT!?
None of it makes any sense, and their chart on which CPU you should buy for which application is completely absurd too. Like oh now you're getting older and big brained, that's going to take more power for your computer to keep up with. Come on like lol.
There's so much nonsense in the video it's hard to even keep track of it all, but that's honestly shameful from a multi-billion dollar company like Intel, who had dominated for so long in the past, to resort to spreading absolute nonsense in an attempt to essentially "eliminate the competition". It's all just brainwashing tactics, trying to target a clueless audience and fill their head with nonsense, while of course, it's good that people review these things to actually help others out who might fall for such nonsense and buy into it.
That has to be the most ridiculous thing I have seen ever since all the LTT drama that happened a few months back. I also love how Steve literally made a video about it while travelling, because it was actually that ridiculous. Also, the fact he had to even say "is that real".
I'm really glad that I switched over to AMD if this is the road that Intel are going down. AMD is better at the moment either way, but these low blow tactics would put anyone off.
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. To be honest, I would have been happy with any of the options, so that Asus is fine.
