I capitalize every 5-7 years which involves a rather large nut. My latest workstation has a Threadripper instead of a pair of XEONs. Very happy. Servers are a different story for the obvious reasons.
I’ve been a long time supporter of Intel. I waffled back and forth with AMD and Intel in the late 90s and early 2000s, but there were support and cross-compatibility issues with graphics cards and AMD procs early on, so I settled on Intel.
I recently upgraded to an Intel Gen 14 processor from a Gen 13, and I was bit by their microcode screw up that caused constant BSODs and a completely unstable system. I’m hobbling it along waiting for support to take my CC information to send me a replacement. It’s been 2 months now.
Their quality control has gone to pot, and I’m not sure I’ll ever buy another Intel mainboard/proc again. And of course I’m sitting on shares of their stock that are bordering on worthless.