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Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown (www.pcgamesn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

A more in-depth and nuanced look into this can be found on Level1Techs and GamersNexus youtube channels.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Link to them both discussing the issue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAE4NWoyMZk&t=1425s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Came here to say this, the team is doing great work!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Yea Wendell did a great job. Excited to see what tip was given to Steve in his next video about this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Never been happier with a CPU since I switched to Ryzen 4 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I'm still on my 1600x. Works fine for me on my 1080p monitor and not worrying about the best graphics.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I bought a 3700x in 2021 and after 2 years of my computer randomly powering off (and replacing my PSU, ram and GPU in that order) I replaced the CPU and found that the problem was fixed. I sent the CPU back to AMD and they confirmed it was defective and issued a replacement. I haven't had a random poweroff since.

perhaps I am just unlucky, but I think I'll take my chances with intel

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, that was your takeaway? I understand cumulative frustration is hard to reverse, but it seems pretty solid that they accepted an RMA two years after purchase, reported test results, and replaced it.

As much as I try to resist brand loyalty, I feel like that kind of support experience would probably bring me back next time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Glad I'm not alone in that take. But I also get it, that associated frustration is hard to overcome.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

We replaced our vm hosts recently with AMD ones - literally half the price with a lot more performance.

Xeon's always led the pack for enterprise hardware, but no longer. Confidence in Intel has been dropping for a while.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If my CPU looked like that, I'd be a tad worried.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The refined uranium IHS doubles your clicks per minute and facilitates exfoliation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is smackdown the new slam?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Memememeeeeega MEGA Smackdown! 10k points!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What a multibillion dollar international company selling subpar or downright unusable products for additional profits?! In 2024?! Why that's practically SHOCKING!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ed Zitron has just released two eps on the Better Offline podcast talking about how capitalism has been geared toward shareholder value and juicing numbers over making products and services that work well. The first ep is overloaded and has audio clipping / distortion. It gets better part way through, but it's unpleasant if you're an audio nerd. The second ep has proper levels. Worth a listen. It's especially hard on tech companies, though not without cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Man I'm really tired of these headlines. In not more interested in reading your article of you try to make it sound like a wrestling match!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This isn’t news, it’s just new that people are calling them out on it

x86 has hit the end of its development lifecycle, but that’s a slow and expensive ship to turn