The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March, and after reading through the reviews of Intel CPUs on my electronics store of choice, many of which (!) mention CPU replacements, I am getting the impression that Intel’s current CPUs just are not stable 😞. Therefore, I am giving up on Intel for the coming years and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU instead.
I honestly don’t get why anyone would have bought an Intel in the last 3-4 years. AMD was just better on literally every metric.
If your use case benefited from Quicksync then Intel was a clear choice.
Older Intel CPUs are the only ones that can play 4K BluRays on the player itself and not just ripping to a drive. Very niche use case but that is one I can think of.
They can’t even do that anymore. sgx had a bunch of vulnerabilities and as a result, that service has been disabled.
https://sgx.fail/ SGX.Fail
Well shit
This section contains his reasoning.
Idle power is the only thing they are good at, but for a homeserver a used older cpu is good enough.
Was that even true for comparable CPU’s? I feel this was only for their N100’s etc.
Nah all the am4 cpus have abysmal idle power, the am5 got a little better as far as i know but the infinity fabric was a nightmare for the idle power.
Well I concede, I guess there was one metric they were better at. Doing absolutely nothing.
What about the monolithic socs? Idle power on my 5825u is better than my i5-1135g7. My i7-8550u is in between.
The problem is just the infinity fabric that connects the chiplets. Afaik this is because its clock runs at a consstant speed and its made on a way bigger node. The monolithic parts dont have that problem.
My AM4 box draws 0 watts on idle. I turn it off when I don’t use it
Like turn off the PSU switch? Computers can draw more than you think when they’re “off”, but the PSU switch should shut out the whole thing.
Ahh yes idle=not using computer and using computer=100% cpu usage. There is no such thing as “reading a pdf document” or “surfing the web”.
Browsing the web is not idle
Enlighten me! When is a cpu idleing?
When it’s not doing anything