I have been on Intel for a while now. Actually my desktop runs a Sandybridge cpu
with 8GB ram. It runs fine for me -- I don't do all that much. So I see no need to
upgrade. Originally I had a g860 cpu in 2013 then in 2017 I upgraded to a xeon.
Used Xeon go very cheap on Ebay because companies swap out their workstations
and the market gets flooded. So the Xeon I got for half the price of the comparable
I7. I don't know if this is still true.
I liked the AMD K7 way back when. You could upgrade your old socket 7 board with
a new CPU. Intel had already abandoned that socket. (AMD used to be pin compatible)
Then the pentium 4 came out but they were super expensive. With the rdram memory.
I think I got one way later. Wasn't there something funny with rdram -- like all the slots
had to be filled, so often you had dummy cards in the slots?
So I ran Athlons at the time. But they seemed not to have thermal shutoff like the Intel
(I try to web search this but it seems I am not totally correct -- there was a sensor in the
Athlon but mobo mostly ignored it) Athlon cooking themselves to death soured me on
AMD and I have been Intel since.
So my desktop will just stay the way it is. I don't really need any more ram. Maybe
an NVME SSD though. But I could just get a pci-express adapter and do it without
the big upgrade.
Thomas