• tal@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    I would have gone AMD in the first place if this happened at the time of my purchase.

    Well, you’ve got better judgement than me. l’d been running just Intel for ~25 years and was comfortable with them, and even when ordering the replacement, still wasn’t absolutely certain that the CPU was at fault until the replacement (temporarily, for a few months) resolved all the problems.

    Moving forward, I expect I’ll use AMD unless they manage to do something like this.

    My last gaming PC served me well for almost 10 years before I did an in socket upgrade.

    Yeah, not a lot of annual single-threaded performance improvements since the early 2000s. Can very easily use older CPUs just fine for a long time these days, depending upon workload.