Building a desktop for photoediting plus some mild gaming

[Feisyram]

Hi
I currently have a laptop (i5) with iris XE integrated graphics and 64gb of ram (hooked up to a monitor). I use it for a) limited gaming (a bit of Fortnite, some football manager and Civ 6) and b) photo editing (Lightroom)

The graphics on Fortnite are dumbed down a little but it's certainly playable. It can handle the photo editing basics pretty well actually but the higher end stuff causes a little lag. Being entirely honest, I am not sure I NEED a new machine but I kind of want one just because I'd like slightly better quality graphics on the odd game I play and to have things running a bit slicker in Lightroom

I am thinking of getting a desktop (my laptop never moves from the desk). I have always had intel PCs and had no issues with them ever. But browsing on here I see there is quite a lot of negativity towards Intel. What is the background to this please? ANd if I moved to a Ryzen does Windows 11 work ok with them in terms of drivers etc?

Thanks

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi
I currently have a laptop (i5) with iris XE integrated graphics and 64gb of ram (hooked up to a monitor). I use it for a) limited gaming (a bit of Fortnite, some football manager and Civ 6) and b) photo editing (Lightroom)

The graphics on Fortnite are dumbed down a little but it's certainly playable. It can handle the photo editing basics pretty well actually but the higher end stuff causes a little lag. Being entirely honest, I am not sure I NEED a new machine but I kind of want one just because I'd like slightly better quality graphics on the odd game I play and to have things running a bit slicker in Lightroom

I am thinking of getting a desktop (my laptop never moves from the desk). I have always had intel PCs and had no issues with them ever. But browsing on here I see there is quite a lot of negativity towards Intel. What is the background to this please? ANd if I moved to a Ryzen does Windows 11 work ok with them in terms of drivers etc?

Thanks

Intel for some time now have been what AMD used to be, impossible to cool, expensive, and poor performance while using twice the power

Then it turned out they're so heavily over voltaged that it's causing the silicon to break down anyway

But even if they didn't melt, they're still poor processors vs the competition, there's no use case anymore where they're even remotely competitive.

Intel 13th and 14th Gen confirmed defective

So there's been a lot of upset gathering steam on the inter webs with intermittent games crashes on Intel 13th and 14th gen. Workarounds range from underclocking to disabling ecores. BUT, there are a lot of people finding that simply disabling hyperthreading is a proper solution. The findings...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

Ryzen is X86, same as Intel, doesn't matter what X86 CPU you have, Windows is exactly the same on all of them.