The recommended budget platform has been Intel for most of this year. They're clearly still competitive but that only lasts as long as AMD continues to reorient

The recommended budget platform has been Intel for most of this year. They're clearly still competitive but that only lasts as long as AMD continues to reorient their pricing upwards to a more luxury tier. The new budget AMD mainboards cost 200+ Euros now. Intel doesn't even need to execute well when AMD is about to play itself.