I also recently swapped to amd and my biggest surprise was how awful their platform is. With intel, getting sensor data just worked without anything special. With amd, it looks like each platform, perhaps model, requires special support. My mobo is a used godlike, and just has zero sensor support.
I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
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Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't it mostly an ease of mind thing? I've never seen a ECC error on my home server which has plenty of memory in use and runs longer than my desktop. Maybe it's more common with higher clocked, near the limit, desktop PC's. Also: DDR5 has some false ecc marketing due to the memory standard having an error correction scheme build in. Don't fall for it.
I see a particular ECC error at least weekly on my home desktop system, because one of my DIMMs doesn't like the (out of spec) clock rate that I make it operate at. Looks like this: 94 2025-08-26 01:49:40 +0200 error: Corrected error, no action required., CPU 2, bank Unified Memory Controller (bank=18), mcg mcgstatus=0, mci CECC, memory_channel=1,csrow=0, mcgcap=0x0000011c, status=0x9c2040000000011b, addr=0x36e701dc0…
I would loosen the memory timings a bit and see if that resolves the ECC errors. x265 performance shouldn't fall since it generally benefits more from memory clock rate than latency.
Also, could you share some relevant info about your processor, mainboard, and UEFI? I see many internet commenters question whether their ECC is working (or ask if a particular setup would work), and far fewer that report a successful ECC consumer desktop build. So it would be nice to know some specific product combinations that really work.
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#143Why is the author showing a chart of room temperatures? CPU temperature is what matters here. Expecting a CPU to be stable at 100C is just asking for problems. Issue probably could have been avoided by making improvements to case airflow.
The text clearly explains all of this.
No it does not. Which part of the text do you feel explains this?
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#144Why is the author showing a chart of room temperatures? CPU temperature is what matters here. Expecting a CPU to be stable at 100C is just asking for problems. Issue probably could have been avoided by making improvements to case airflow.
I would expect the CPU to start throttling at high temperatures in order to avoid damage. Allegedly, it never did, and instead died. Do you think that’s acceptable in 2025?
What does room temperature have to do with any of this? Yes, you can lower your CPU temperature by lowering your room temperature. But you can also lower your CPU temperature by a variety of other means; particularly by improving case airflow. CPU temperature is the interesting metric here, not room temperature.
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
x86 hasn't been CISC in 3 decades anywhere but in the frontend. An architecture doesn't consume power, a design does. I'm all for shitting on intel, but getting the facts right wouldn't hurt.
X86 isn’t CISC, sure, but it isn’t a RISC architecture either.
The traditional CISC and RISC division broke down the moment processors started doing more than one thing at a time.
A RISC architecture was actually one with simple control flow and a CISC architecture was one with complex control flow, usually with microcode. This distinction isn't applicable to CPUs past the year 1996 or so, because it doesn't make sense to speak of a CPU having global control flow.
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#146I feel like both Intel and AMD are not doing great in the desktop CPU stability department. I made a machine with a Ryzen 9900X a while back and it had the issue that it would freeze when idling. A few years before I had a 5950X that would regularly crash under load (luckily it was a prebuilt, so it was ultimately fixed). When you do not have a bunch of components ready to swap out it is also really hard to debug the…
Your comment about the passively cooled M4 is misleading.
Sure, in single thread, it will be definitely faster. In multithread unless you are going for low end or older CPUs it's basically a lie.
A 10 Core M4 will score around a 14TH gen mobile i5. It will consume much less power but the argument is on performance, so that's beside the point.
And if we are talking about a passively cooled M4 (MacBook Air basically) it will quite heavily throttle relatively quickly, you lose at the very least 30%.
So, let's not misrepresent things, Apple CPUs are very power efficient but they are not magic, if you hit them hard, they still need good cooling. Plenty of people have had the experience with their M4 Max, discovering that actually, if they did use the laptop as a workstation, it will generate a good amount of fan noise, there is no other way around.
Apple stuff is good because most people actually have bursty workload (especially graphic design, video editing and some audio stuff) but if you hammer it for hours on end, it's not that good and the power efficiency point becomes a bit moot.
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#147No desktop CPU I’ve ever used has remained stable at 100 degrees. My 14900k crashes almost immediately at that temp. 3 hours at 100 degrees is obscene.
285k: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241060/...
Max Operating Temperature: 105 °C
14900k: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/236773/...
Max Operating Temperature: 100 °C
Different CPUs, different specs.
And any CPU from the last decade will just throttle down if it gets too hot. That's how the entire "Turbo" thing works: go as fast as we can until it gets too hot, after which it throttles down.
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
x86 hasn't been CISC in 3 decades anywhere but in the frontend. An architecture doesn't consume power, a design does. I'm all for shitting on intel, but getting the facts right wouldn't hurt.
X86 isn’t CISC, sure, but it isn’t a RISC architecture either.
Do RISC architectures still exist? ARM has gained tons of stuff and isn't really "RISC" any more either.
Maybe RISC-V? It's right there in the name, but I haven't really looked at it. However, there are no RISC-V chips that have anywhere near the performance x86 or ARM has, so it remains to be seen if RISC-V can be competitive with x86 or ARM for these types of things.
RISC is one of those things that sounds nice and elegant in principle, but works out rather less well in practice.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that is an impossibility in most of the world today and it will be even more like that going forward.
Much of the world (for better or worse) uses airconditioning in places they commonly use desktop computers.
No they dont. They don't have the money. I remember my childhood when gaming in summer holidays in India, my PC would run at full tilt because my room was at 36C (and outside was 48C).
Re: I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Much of the world (for better or worse) uses airconditioning in places they commonly use desktop computers.
no they don't. in some countries in europe (maybe in all of them?), installing airconditioning is frowned upon because it is considered a waste of energy. if you want government subsidies for replacing your heating system with a more energy efficient one you are not allowed to have airconditioning. and in the rest of the world only people/countries well of, that don't consider their energy usage, do it. airconditioni…
Europe not having some kind of air conditioning (even if heat pump based) is stupidity in my opinion. It lowers productivity