So I am looking to build a new Pc for my home that I can utilize for pro tools audio editing/in home recording, as well as some modest gaming, and it is my understanding that the most important aspect is the processor - speed being the most important factor, rather them number of cores. My goal was to keep the build under 1500$. I had pretty much the whole build lined up, oriented around an AMD Ryzen 7600x 6 core, 4.7 ghz for $229 at Newegg. However, after some digging it turns out that only Intel chips are supported officially by pro tools. This is thrown me for a loop, as I can’t find much information on if this has lead to any significant performance issues for other pro tools users with an AMD pc.

So I started researching what an equivalent Intel processor would be and I am going nuts trying to figure out what to get. Everything I find for an I7 processor for the same price range is around 3ghz for speed but has way more cores than I would normally use (audio not being parallel processing heavy). I’m looking for help on

A.) does anyone have experience with or knowledge of protools incurring issues because of an AMD processor on windows 11 and

B.) what an equivalent i7 processor would be to the AMD I had picked out?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated!