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by sascha_sl 1497 days ago
> Non-toxic approach to business.

Unfortunately it seems the pendulum swings on this one at least a bit. Unless you want a flagship CPU, you'll wait a good half year to a year to get half as much choice of budget CPUs with rather extreme handicap (cache).

Also half of them are OEM only.

Try to find a good current gen CPU for a small to mid sized NAS in their lineup, it's not easy.
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kouteiheika 1497 days ago
> Unless you want a flagship CPU

Even if you want a flagship CPU; e.g. see the newest 5xxx series Threadrippers which were only released after a year and half and even then they are only available in overpriced e-waste systems from Lenovo where the CPU is locked down to the motherboard and won't work anywhere else.

AMD is not your friend. Just like every other huge corporation.

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mrtranscendence 1497 days ago
It's relative. AMD is "your friend" as long as it's on the back foot, so to speak. Their GPU pricing remains much better than Nvidia's, even with the extreme availability issues over the past two years, and some of their actions on the GPU side are more consumer-friendly (such as offering open-source Linux drivers). But when in a more favorable position with respect to their competitor their behavior can and does change.

> where the CPU is locked down to the motherboard

Don't quote me on this, but I think I heard that this wasn't on by default?

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dale_glass 1496 days ago
> It's relative. AMD is "your friend" as long as it's on the back foot, so to speak.

Which is why you should reward behavior and not branding. Buy because they're doing/selling the right thing now, not because you've got loyalty towards a multinational conglomerate.

One signal for instance I want to send is "I buy from whoever has good Linux support". You stop supporting it well, I look for competition.

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