Just to redress the balance, I'll weigh in on the side of AMD. Not that I've anything against Intel, but I'm a long-time AMD user.
I have two AMD machines, the first being my teaching one which has a twin core AMD at 3.4GHz and eight gig RAM with WIN 8.1. It's been used all day every day since 2013 without a single problem, running Realband 2021 and PowerTracks. I keep it clean and it still runs as fast as the day I had it built.

My off-line machine is an AMD Rysen quad core at 3.8GHz with sixteen gig RAM under WIN 10Pro. It runs Realband, Powertracks and Harrison Mixbus 32C and generates Realtracks in the blink of an eye. It will cope happily with over twenty four tracks of Mixbus with EQ plus 12 sends and compressor on every channel. As for reliability, its been running for over two years with hardly a crash.

I see a lot of people running systems which I think are possibly over-spec for the work involved. My advice is to keep your main music computer off-line - with no anti-virus it'll run faster and with no forced updates it'll work the same every time you boot it.

But Intel is OK too....

Last edited by ROG; 02/14/23 01:34 PM.
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