Here is some advice for buying new computers: Should you pick an AMD Ryzen 9000 or an Intel Core Ultra 200?
Here is some advice for buying new computers: Should you pick an AMD Ryzen 9000 or an Intel Core Ultra 200?
You might see why it's okay to put Windows 11 on old computers, but sometimes it's better to keep going with your current setup instead. When the day comes where everyone has their newest gadgets working properly, I'm sure you'll want those cool photos too!
sadly, Intel messed up their plans and the Core 200 is just a bad idea. Let's think about AMD instead; even though the AM5 socket will work for ZEN 6, it'll still be another generation away from that platform. I don't know what Intel will do next, but they lost too much market share in desktops right now. They can't compete on their own until then.
They are still competing well. But what they are NOT doing is growing like before, which is a problem. Sadly, they are sometimes going backward too. That's why it doesn't work anymore. Both of the companies have problems because their size has grown too big.
Intel is nowhere near fighting for desktop jobs. To catch up, they need 3D V cache and a long socket lifespan. They are struggling with power-hungry "brute force" CPUs to beat others and keep losing to cheaper, more efficient ones. Do not get me started on their pathetic socket life!
As i said, I'm planning to buy the parts in Q3'25. That's August and September. When it comes to building pages on pcpp and builds.gg, i won't be updating my old ones. Instead, because the main pieces are changed, i'm making brand new builds with dedicated pages for each part. It feels like it was before when i built a Skylake setup back then. I bought a CPU-Mobo-RAM combo but used some parts from an older AMD build that had already been upgraded. That doesn't mean my old AMD build got better. Besides that, i think Intel should get rid of the P and E cores. AMD makes it simple: just several cores plus hyper-threading. Intel does it complicated: using P cores with hyper-threading but separate E cores without it. When these two types first came out, most software couldn't tell the difference between them because both ran at similar speeds and were slow. This problem has stayed true to this day, where programs struggle to know whether they should run on a fast P core or a slower E core.