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I understand what you're saying about the P4 boards and that largely echos what I'm saying. The vendor chipsets are bad, AMD's are worse than Intel's, and there
by scurvy 6y ago
I understand what you're saying about the P4 boards and that largely echos what I'm saying. The vendor chipsets are bad, AMD's are worse than Intel's, and there's not much a mobo vendor can do.
Intel boards do need upgrades to work with newer CPU's. This is true. But their updates actually work when they say they add support. Go back to July 2019 and read all the forum posts and YouTube videos of everyone complaining about Ryzen 3000, "Well Gigabyte said this release works...but it doesn't." And on and on.
It's a sorry state of affairs all around, but Intel is better than AMD. I write this on an AMD rig and after spending way too much money getting it going.
- zrm 6y agoIt's not that the chipsets are bad. The chipsets are fine. But that used to be how motherboards differentiated themselves. When the standard was two USB ports, one company would offer six. Not all boards had audio support and of the ones that did, some were better than others. All that is integrated now so every board with a given chipset is basically the same. Then they have to compete more aggressively on price, and the way they get the price down is by using cheaper heatsinks and spending less time developing firmware and things like that. The Intel boards have no immunity from that. The ratings there are just as bad. The older Intel boards were better but so were the older AMD boards.