[pdntspa]

Wow... my whole desktop setup, with 3 screens, a 7-year-old intel CPU, a gaming GPU, and a grip of hard drives is showing a draw of 143W right now, up to 289W under stress (prime95). 235W just for the CPU is nuts.

[jotm]

TBF the performance per watt is also nuts. 7 year old is Haswell-Skylake (same performance mostly)?

Alder Lake impresses me, but Ryzen is the better choice because f Intel heh

[pdntspa]

Yeah, this PC has a Haswell CPU.

As much as I want to agree on Ryzen, Intel is still the best platform for low-latency audio stuff. So I hope that performance-per-watt is or will be good as I'm beginning to get that PC-building itch. I'm curious what its idle usage is like.

But my living-room PC has a third-gen Ryzen (I built it just before the pandemic hit) and have been super pleased with its performance.

[herpderperator]

Do you have a source for Intel being the best platform for low latency audio stuff?

[pdntspa]

Nothing citeable, just anecdata and murmurs from being active in that scene for a long time

I did find https://linustechtips.com/topic/1238719-low-latency-cpu-for-...

edit - Sound on Sound with a bit more detail https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/core-wars-amd-inte...