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Seems I've heard nothing but good things about AMD for the last 10 years or so.

I once had an terrible experience with AMD ~10 years ago that made me swear off them for good. Had something to do with software but I remember it taking several days of work/solutions.

Willing to give them another try soon though. I never seem to even use the full power of whatever CPU I get, lol.

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Lisa Su joined AMD in 2012 and in 2017 the first Zen chips were released. Good people making good decisions.

Late 2020 I switched from Intel to AMD Ryzen 5900X for my gaming PC and only had great experiences as far as gaming is concerned.

I should point out that there were significant USB problems on AMD B550, X570 chipsets (eventually addressed via BIOS updates).

Unfortunately some professional audio gear is only certified for use with Intel chipsets and I have experienced some deal-breaking latency issues with ASIO drivers. For gaming I will be happy to continue using AMD - but for music I will probably switch back to Intel for my next rig.

That actually sucks because I do a lot of music stuff and having any issues with ASIO would be a deal breaker. Thanks for the heads up! One of those things I would have never even thought of to check!

Also sums up my AMD experience 10 years ago. Stuff just wasn't working :/

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