1. You don't seem to understand that it doesn't take many years to upgrade your processor if you choose it correctly.
2. I'm just a home user, and the integrated graphics in intel is free. Without it, a video card costs more than a motherboard.
3. As the tests indicate that alder lake is more energy efficient even in games, amd remains only with the advantage in heavy loads exclusively in comparison to 12900K / 5950X. 12600K crushes everything from AMD to performance / watt.
4. Intel is a good choice, AMD is just as good. To justify that intel is a bad choice because a motherboard smells only of fanboism. Buy 5800X3D or 5950X for your 5 year old B350,... good choice, yeahhh, right.
Look, it's boring. Replying to you is boring. Not to mention that I don't have any interest in trying to remember what you where saying a few pages ago, because you keep using your arguments from different perspectives all the time. You just post A that suits you now, while you where insisting on B a couple of pages back. Boring.
Look what you are doing in here.
1. You start saying that choosing the right processor can cover you for years. That implies that no matter the (typical) improvements in IPC, frequency, number of cores, features in a period of, let's say 3-5 years, the correct CPU from 3-5 years ago, will be more than enough. But it is YOU who insists in promoting Alder Lake as the ONE and ONLY option. So, is someone covered for years with a good old CPU, or is the BEST, from your point of view, the ONLY accepted option?
You contradict yourself. I know what you implying, but your logic contradicts with itself, because at the same time you try to pass the idea that a platform doesn't need to offer compatibility for more than 2 generations. This agony of yours to support that, makes you contradicting not just from post to post, but in the same post.
2. You are a home user, but just a page ago you where insisting that AV1 support is EVERYTHING that matters. The ONLY thing that matters when looking at a GPU.
Again you contradict yourself. When it suits you, you take ONE feature and make it like being everything that matters. When it suits you, you are a simple user, happy with a mid range CPU 2 generation old, happy with a joke iGPU in that CPU, happy with any Intel iGPU that it performs badly in 3D.
3. There you go again, with crushing everything from AMD. How about your i5? Does 12600K crushes it too or the Intel sticker is a great feature that averts crushing?
4. And here you try to make it look like you are the objective and the others are the ones trying to hurt little cute Intel platform. The thing is that you are laughing at the possible, sticking a 5950X or even a 5800X3D on a B350 board. If AMD wasn't supporting that, you would be laughing at the fact that you can't use 5000 series CPUs on a 300 series board. Now you laugh at having the possibility to do that. I can understand you. But I have better things to do than deal with your frustration seeing that someone with such an old board can have so many options.
But you know what?
I know what it will make you super happy.
Just go and buy that 12600K that crushes everything from AMD and stick it in your Z490 motherboard.
Oh....wait....