Does somebody use both, current Intel and AMD tower PCs?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

I know, it's always the same old question, each time somebody considers
to buy a new machine.

AMD CPUs for way less money than Intel CPUs claim to have less power
consumption and more cores at a higher clock speed than Intel CPUs.

In my experiences with old AMD CPUs, on cheap mobos, they were always a
PITA, causing issues with real-time audio, while the only Intel CPU I'm
still using, also on a cheap mobo, doesn't cause much trouble at all,
let alone that the Intel GPU is way easier to set up, than all those ATI
and NVIDIA graphics I used to use.

Does somebody use both, nowadays AMD and Intel CPUs on middle priced
mobos? I've got the impression that cheap mobos nowadays don't provide
much PCIe, let alone any PCI slot anymore. I want at least lots of PCIe
slots so I won't run out of slots no matter what interests me in the
future.

How does TSC of the CPUs of both vendors compare nowadays?

I noticed that my old Intel machine tends to run way to often at 100+%,
so when compiling or using a hypervisor the fan speed becomes
uncomfortably loud and performance does drop at least when using a
hypervisor. I suspect the time has come when software gets that much
slower, that my 6 years old Celeron G1840 dual-core CPU, 2.80GHz machine
is no longer in the running.

Regards,
Ralf