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Is AL good for me?

Mark7
By Mark7
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Building a family PC, light on every aspect, light productivity, light video, light editing. Is AL with all its added costs worth the build, or go with Rocket Lake? 

 

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Considering the price for a decent board is at least 200$ i'd say no and just go for a 5600g as that has more gpu power than the intel offerings whilst being cheap too.

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Go with a Zen3 or Rocket Lake based computer, perhaps even a Ryzen APU as suggested above, depending on your workload. Maybe even older, if there's a good deal to be found. A used dedicated graphics card (if you can find one for a reasonable price) might be a worthwhile upgrade.

 

Alder Lake seems great, but a "light" workload doesn't warrant the extra cost.

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5600g is much more expensive than the 11400 in my area, and about the same as 5600x. Both 100$ above 11400. 

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I5-11400 or even i5-10400 are very good choices for the described use case.

80+ ratings certify electrical efficiency. Not quality.

 

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