Mental Gear Reduction
Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
You're refusing the best tool for the job, making your own life harder. You could save a lot of money by just buying an Intel CPU with QuickSync, because you won't need to replace the GPU at obscene expense to get a modern video accelerator.Encoder where, on what?
BTW, it's far beyond a Grudge' as you put it, it's called Principals. I saw that comment the 1st time you made it.
Intel is not the same company they were in the mid-90s. A lot of the people who worked there are now dead, and all the decision-makers will long since have retired. You're making the fundamental mistake of thinking you can step in the same river twice. It's an almost-entirely different group of people now, who just happen to call themselves Intel.
I like AMD CPUs, and own three of the Zen 3 generation. But they're sharply inferior for your stated purpose in buying the machine.