1. No, just market themselves honestly. It was way worse when their marketing guy was Robert Hallock, though, and funnily enough he's working at Intel now. But instead we got a series of nonsense such as that supposed "BIOS ROM size limitation" on AM4 in an attempt to upsell hardware, I had to replace my perfectly working Crosshair VI motherboard because they intentionally withheld X370 support for almost a year, or TRX40 being aborted mid-way and never seeing Zen 3 to begin with... I know people who purchased TRX40 systems and got hosed big time.
5. What's despicable about not liking his PC build? I certainly would have spent my money differently: even if were I building using only AMD parts, it'd be 7800X3D+7900XTX instead of 7900X3D+7900XT (it would be cheaper and perform better at games), but again, like I said, it's the beauty of it: PC builds are what their owners make of them. I chose to buy Intel and NVIDIA this time. I felt that Raptor Lake was a better processor than Zen 4, and having hands-on experience with Zen 2 and Zen 3 as well as AMD's behavior handling their previous generation platform, I also clearly had other reasons. They offered me a better product and got my patronage. That's about it.
I registered just to respond to this, and a few other assertions made by Dr. Dro; I found a lot of what you said to be somewhere between ahistorical and histrionic. People would probably respond to you more kindly if you didn't take the
tone of a rabid intel fan. Similarly, insulting people's PC builds because they're not good enough doesn't do much to endear oneself to the public.
Anyways, point 1 is sort of a big nothingburger, primarily because AMD
changed their position and followed through on it. You "had" to replace your motherboard because you wanted a new toy and couldn't wait? And if you had waited, they would've fixed your problem? And this is their fault, somehow? This is the textbook definition of petulance. Meanwhile, intel would have had you trash your motherboard already if they had their druthers... The only thing stopping them is the incompetence the rest of us readily acknowledge.
As for TR-5000, that is very much a shame, but makes more sense in the context of wanting to withhold the right silicon for actual server-grade applications. The 10,000 people who buy TR systems every year simply had to make do, this hardly takes away from the
SEVEN YEARS of mainstream support that regular consumers were afforded on AM4... A behavior that stretches back to the days of AM2 supporting AM3 add-in cards.
People tend to give AMD credit because they are, and absolutely have always been, way less awful (perhaps even better) than nearly any other tech company on earth when it comes to dealing with the little people.
No, there's no sarcasm, just a grudge and a whole lot of resentment, actually. As if AMD marketing was comprised of saints and that company not once lied to customers for its advantage, or made fun of their competition - ever.
This is where I really take umbrage with your take on AMD in the context of technology, marketing, and corporate malfeasance. Are you even old enough to remember when Intel actively destroyed every single other x86 competitor? Much in the same way that Nvidia destroyed every other GPU competitor? Intel was, up until their great 14nm stagnation, an
entirely monopolistic force. If intel felt like they were anything besides a dead fish, they'd still be doing it - much like Nvidia was recently caught doing with AI card shipments.
My point is this; so what? Who cares if they "made fun", boo-freaking-hoo. Intel has tried to ruin AMD several times over, has failed, and people who've been around longer than the lifespan of a hamster recognize this.
