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Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape (hackaday.com)
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[–] 190 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Intel is well known for requiring a new board for each new CPU generation, even if it is the same socket. AMD on the other hand is known to push stuff to its physical limits before they break compatibility.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But why? Did Intel make a deal with the board manufacturers? Is this tradition from the days when they build boards themselves?

    I thought they just didn't care and wanted as little restrictions for their chip design as possible, but if this actually works without drawbacks, that theory is out the window.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Intel also sells the chipset and the license to the chipset software; the more boards get sold, the more money they make (as well as their motherboard partners, who also get to sell more, which encourages more manufacturers to make Intel boards and not AMD)

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    There are many motherboard manufactors but only 2 CPU manufacturers (for PC desktop). Board makers don't "makes deals" so much as have the terms dictated to them. Even graphics card manufacturers made them their bitch back when multi-GPU was a thing - it was them who had to sell their Crossfire/SLL technology on their motherboards.

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