Does somebody use both, current Intel and AMD tower PCs?

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 18 Mar 2023 18:45:48 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know, it's always the same old question, each time somebody considers
> to buy a new machine.
> 
> AMD CPUs for way less money than Intel CPUs claim to have less power
> consumption and more cores at a higher clock speed than Intel CPUs.
> 
> In my experiences with old AMD CPUs, on cheap mobos, they were always a
> PITA, causing issues with real-time audio, while the only Intel CPU I'm
> still using, also on a cheap mobo, doesn't cause much trouble at all,
> let alone that the Intel GPU is way easier to set up, than all those ATI
> and NVIDIA graphics I used to use.

I have an (older) AMD based ATX Mobo.  The processor is OK, but the NVIDIA 
graphics chip is a PITA -- one application I use, KiCad, regularly manages to 
"crash" either the graphics chip or the nouveau driver (I have not determined 
if the problem is hardware or software whatever it is I need to SysReq the 
box).  The NVIDIA network chip also seems to sometimes go off into never never 
land.  If/When I upgrade this machine I will bit the bullet and get an Intel 
mobo, unless there appears on the market a reasonably priced ARM64 system on 
an ATX Mobo (I'm mostly done with x86 family processors).  I do need a mobo 
with *lots* of SATA ports (the Mobo I have now has 6 SATA ports).  I mosly do 
text, so a "fancy" GPU is not something I have any use for.

> 
> Does somebody use both, nowadays AMD and Intel CPUs on middle priced
> mobos? I've got the impression that cheap mobos nowadays don't provide
> much PCIe, let alone any PCI slot anymore. I want at least lots of PCIe
> slots so I won't run out of slots no matter what interests me in the
> future.
> 
> How does TSC of the CPUs of both vendors compare nowadays?
> 
> I noticed that my old Intel machine tends to run way to often at 100+%,
> so when compiling or using a hypervisor the fan speed becomes
> uncomfortably loud and performance does drop at least when using a
> hypervisor. I suspect the time has come when software gets that much
> slower, that my 6 years old Celeron G1840 dual-core CPU, 2.80GHz machine
> is no longer in the running.
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

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