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Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years (www.club386.com)
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[-] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

It wasn't arbitrary, they named them after the number of pins. Which is fine but kinda confusing for your average consumer

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 15 points 1 month ago

Which is a pretty arbitrary naming convention since the number of pins in a socket doesn't really tell you anything especially when that naming convention does NOT get applied to the processors that plug into them.

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