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Date:
10/9/2020 8:10:33 PM
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RE: technology blurbs
Ah, point taken. While I have a 2nd gen zen cpu, the chipset was apparently released with the 1st gen, and I recall that finding ram was a little tricky. It's true that I opted for AMD primarily because I was being cheap, but as a practical matter, being a year behind the cutting edge is, for the vast majority of users, a non-issue considering people's several-plus year upgrade cycle. As for overclocking, I can hardly see the point when games are largely GPU bottlenecked anyway. So sure, my personal anecdote is just that, but is it just by sheer luck that my experience flies in the face of all the people who say AMD computers are an unstable POS? Besides, I've had various experiences with intel systems with fresh OS + updates installs that are flaky and run like shit. To be fair, these were machines from the likes of dell and hp if that makes any difference. I think much of the distrust of AMD products is largely long-held beliefs that for the most part haven't been true in a long time. Similar to how many of the linux nerds still think windows hasn't improved since the pre-NT years, while in my experience something on my linux distro mysteriously breaks by itself every couple months, and yet my windows machine can go largely trouble-free for years. Maybe I'm just doing everything wrong.
