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

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 21:00 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> With all of that cost, I wonder at the wisdom of what you are doing.

Hi,

the rational behind it might or might not be

- the 13. Generation (Raptor Lake-S) is the latest, but between next
  month and end of this year Intel will start selling the next
  generation (Meteor Lake). If I buy a new computer, I will keep it for
  a few years, hence buying an older CPU than the 13. generation might
  not make much sense.

- I buy fast DDR4 3200 RAM, not slower DDR4, but also not faster DDR5. I
  see this as a middle ground between good and the latest and greatest.
  32 GiB should be a good starting point, but I have additional two
  slots to upgrade to 64 GiB, let alone that the mobo allows up to
  128 GiB.

- the 1TB, NVMe is probably faster and larger than what is inside of a
  200.00 € PC from years ago. However, this point is worth discussing.
  ADATA, Intenso, Kingston, WD, Intel, Verbatim, Transcend, Crucial, HP,
  Seagate sell 1 TiB for around half of the price of the KIOXIA SSD and
  I'm anyway in favour of more than 1 TiB. However, I have had very good
  experiences with SATA SSDs from Toshiba OCZ and KIOXIA.

- the mobo's chipset Intel B660 Express is probably already the
  cheapest and not the best, but the mobo provides lots of PCI Express
  slots and a 1x Gb LAN, this might become useful in the future

- The DVD drive is irrelevant. The case provides lot of space for many
  internal drives and regarding the PSU I still need to calculate how
  much headroom I might need. A 200.00 € ALDI PC from years ago might
  not provide enough space for internal drives and the PSU might neither
  be power efficient, nor provide enough headroom.

Those are my thoughts so far, so to speak.

Regards,
Ralf