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.
I had many months of BSODs with the late 2022 Threadripper as well. It was so bad that I had to set up an out-of-band power management system. There was no built-in LOM like we’d find on the server systems. Regardless, it’s a high-end workstation that had some annoying growing pains. The BSODs have since cleared up. BTW, the techs indicated that MS provided no special considerations for the manufacturers that shipped Windows. Crazy.
Loved my dual XEON workstations, but I wanted to give the high-perf single CPUs a try.