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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

after getting burned twice

Can I ask what happened?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

1 DOA CPU that the physical store I went to purchase it at didn't have any more of so I got a cheaper Intel CPU they DID have. Tbh that might have been the store dropping it or storing it improperly, they weren't a very competent electronics store.

And a Sapphire GPU that only worked with 1 very specific driver version that wasn't even on their website anymore when I tried to install it for some reason. I eventually got it working after hours of hunting and fiddling, which was repeated when I gave the PC away to a friend's little brother and they wiped it without checking the driver versions I left behind like I told them.

Recently built my wife a new AMD based system because grudges have to end eventually and I think I couldn't have picked a better time tbh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Damn yeah I can definitely understand that grudge, but also yeah modern AMD products are a lot better. I recently upgraded my AM4 CPU and also to a new Radeon GPU and I think they both work really well, after previously having some issues with earlier AMD products. Especially with Linux gaming, AMD is the way to go