Yeah. Downvote as much as you like fanboys. Can't dilute the truth.
Could you please elaborate? I have 3 amd systems at home gen2 - gen3 and they are performing well under windows and linux. I use the win machine for gaming on tv while I work on linux with gen3. I have yet to experience any problem which caused by the cpu. And I did not encounter big issues other than the first generation ryzens in gaming.
In my new job, I have a co-worker who is an AMD fan boy. He also had a first gen Razen CPU on his workstation. He got an Intel CPU after one crash and everything is fine since. He is still upset about it. Though he got a new Ryzen CPU at home and he says it's stable.
IIRC, there was a brief 2nd gen Ryzen glitch for crashing, which was resolved with some BIOS updates.
After a BIOS update, an option for power supply idle control appeared, and selecting the "typical" over "low" option resolved the hangups. No C-state or C'n'Q changes required.
I did have to RMA the CPU initially when it wouldn't post with DIMMs in 2/4 slots, but later revisions seem to have quickly overcome the memory controller issues.
Haha what?
People dealing with professional softwares also have problems that are magically solved when they use Intel. Have no statistics on that tho.
Just to be clear, I am not defending defective and/or unreliable products, just want to make sure the fingers are pointed into the right direction.
When those things happen they just send them back to the distributor without testing further because they're not sure. They tell them that a)it's not their fault and returns the cpu or say b)it's their fault and sends a replacement.
Could be that AMD is blindly replacing CPUs rather than test them like Intel does.
> The downside to going Intel here is finding a CPU for sale.