I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D

Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by aurareturn on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:57AM (#45156294)

I’ve given up on both and use Apple Silicon only. AMD and Intel are simply too power hungry for how slow they are and can’t optimize for power like Apple can.

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by maciejw on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:16AM (#45156384)

I also switched to cheapest Mac Mini M4 Pro this year (after 20+ years of using Intel CPUs). MacOS has its quirks, but it provides ZSH and it "just works" (unlike manjaro I used in parallel with Windows). I especially like the preview tool - it has useful pdf and photo editing options.

The hardware is impressive - tiny, metal box, always silent, basic speaker built-in and it can be left always on with minimal power consumption.

Drive size for basic models is limited (512gb) - I solved it by moving photos to NAS. I don't use it for gaming, except Hello Kitty Island Adventure. I would say it's a very competitive choice for a desktop PC in 2025 overall.

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by lostlogin on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:03AM (#45156324)

I just replaced a headless nuc 9 with a headless M4.

Nuc 9 averaged 65-70W power usage, while the m4 is averaging 6.6W.

The Mac is vastly more performant.

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by mr_windfrog on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:01AM (#45156319)

That's pretty amazing, I've never heard of that before .-_-!

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Re:I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D by izacus on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:46AM (#45156794)

Ah, was wondering where the mandatory Apple advertiser is in this thread.

Hope you get a commission.

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