Warning about RealTek adapters - again!

[Seimus]

The above is why the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ was my last AMD CPU and the AMD Radeon 290X 8 GB my last AMD GPU : Too much "Ohh... yeah... that did not work out as we expected/wanted it to... Oops!" nonsense all the time !! :(

I am running a full AMD system since last year where I did upgrade my old AM4 platform. The only thing I kept are the NVMEs, PSU and chassis + fans;
9800X3D
9070XT Merc
Tomahawk X870
G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (2x 16GB) 7800MHz

Got all of these components at or under MSRP. I am running as well since 3y+ Linux, this upgrade was done in mind of Linux. And personally I do not have any problems on that system running Garuda under the hood. In respect of stability and feature system HW/OS works perfectly fine without problems.

Intel based system have their quirks too.

Regards,
S.

[nero355]

I am running a full AMD system since last year

And personally I do not have any problems on that system running Garuda under the hood. In respect of stability and feature system HW/OS works perfectly fine without problems.

I know there are plenty of systems out there without any issues, but it also depends on your needs for a part and in that regard I am really done with AMD hardware :)

Intel based system have their quirks too.

Ofcourse, but they tend to 'Just work!' a lot more compared to AMD stuff in my experience.

It's a shame tho, because I kind of fell in love with the Ryzen 2200G when it came on the market : A small powerfull cheap APU that could do a lot of things for a lot of people in something like the AsRock A300/X300 models or some kind of "AMD NUC" concept ^_^

[Seimus]

Ofcourse, but they tend to 'Just work!' a lot more compared to AMD stuff in my experience.

I sadly do not agree with this. I have very bad experience with Intel and DDR5, and that doesn't apply only for PCs but as well Server systems.

Regards,
S.

[nero355]

I have very bad experience with Intel and DDR5, and that doesn't apply only for PCs

Is those were ASUS mainboaards then I am not surprised to be honest.

Also some of the Intel N100 (and others) "NUC" like models can be picky about RAM.

that  but as well Server systems.

In the Server/Workstation world that's considered normal and I have epxerienced it myself with many HPE models from the E5-2650v1/v2/v3 era in the past :)

[Greg_E]

As of about a year ago, the Marvell AQ drivers were not available, whether I wanted to use it or not, I had to go with Truenas Scale on a mini-NAS I was building. Marvell AQ drivers are available in Linux (for as good as they are, have a new problem with Truenas 25.10.x).

Intel still rules the roost and thankfully the x710 are (were) coming down in price.

And I sure hope RAM and SSD prices come back down, not going to waste time buying when they get back into the comfortable range, I could use some 2-4TB nvme drives and $50 per TB sure is better than $100+ right now.

[meyergru]

The X710-T2 is still at ~235€. I think that is a little steep when a full mainboard costs less. The XG-C100C can be had for 63€ shipped.