It’s been a somewhat bizarre launch for Intel with its Core Ultra desktop processors crashing and burning (thankfully not physically this time) in reviews and sales figures are understandably poor, especially when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, which even outsold all of AMD’s other Ryzen 9000 CPUs combined. It’s only because of a long list of problems and promised fixes that we’d even consider opting for Intel’s new platform and consider a motherboard such as the Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite WiFi7 Ice.
But from the start the constant updates do make testing difficult.
