Prebuilt have all kinds of hardware and unfortunately many users go with those. I offered to do a 265k 5070ti build for my brother’s girlfriend but he instead spent the same amount on a 265k 5070 32gb 5200mhz prebuilt. He does some dev work and she does a tiny amount of creative work and honestly I think he wanted to make sure her system was inferior to his. 1 year warranty and you have to pay to ship the whole system in if there’s any issues. He wouldn’t even consider AMD or going with a custom build like I do for myself and others (just finished another intel build over the weekend for a coworker, diehard intel even after the issues…)
In the custom build world I think you find more gamers and people who want the fastest gear they can afford, which is why we see gamers picking up AMD x3d chips today. They aren’t beaten and aren’t just the most expensive option.
AM5 as a platform still has issues with memory training, though it’s largely set it and forget it until you reboot after a month or dont have memory context restore enabled in bios.
I’m less familiar with the intel side nowadays despite literally just doing a build. They seem to win on boot times unless you accept the instability of AMD’s fast boot memory check bypass stuff. Getting a government bailout though is enough to make me want to avoid them indefinitely for my own gear so I doubt I’ll get much hands on with the current or next gen.
Somehow I think you misunderstood my meaning.
Prebuilt have all kinds of hardware and unfortunately many users go with those. I offered to do a 265k 5070ti build for my brother’s girlfriend but he instead spent the same amount on a 265k 5070 32gb 5200mhz prebuilt. He does some dev work and she does a tiny amount of creative work and honestly I think he wanted to make sure her system was inferior to his. 1 year warranty and you have to pay to ship the whole system in if there’s any issues. He wouldn’t even consider AMD or going with a custom build like I do for myself and others (just finished another intel build over the weekend for a coworker, diehard intel even after the issues…)
In the custom build world I think you find more gamers and people who want the fastest gear they can afford, which is why we see gamers picking up AMD x3d chips today. They aren’t beaten and aren’t just the most expensive option.
AM5 as a platform still has issues with memory training, though it’s largely set it and forget it until you reboot after a month or dont have memory context restore enabled in bios.
I’m less familiar with the intel side nowadays despite literally just doing a build. They seem to win on boot times unless you accept the instability of AMD’s fast boot memory check bypass stuff. Getting a government bailout though is enough to make me want to avoid them indefinitely for my own gear so I doubt I’ll get much hands on with the current or next gen.