BIOS update are also dishonest because they impose limits on the CPUs for valid reliability reasons, but benchmarks are done initially without these limits.
Buying Intel for desktops in the last 5 years was kind of a gamble, I never did that, only AMD since Thunderbird (didn’t buy desktop CPUs from 2009 to 2020), but they had so many issues on so many fronts that you should only buy them if you need a feature not offered by AMD.
BIOS update are also dishonest because they impose limits on the CPUs for valid reliability reasons, but benchmarks are done initially without these limits.
Buying Intel for desktops in the last 5 years was kind of a gamble, I never did that, only AMD since Thunderbird (didn’t buy desktop CPUs from 2009 to 2020), but they had so many issues on so many fronts that you should only buy them if you need a feature not offered by AMD.