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[–] Diplomjodler3 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why buy overpriced new stuff that's not even better than the last generation?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thats how profit be made

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

Line must always go up.

[–] dinckelman 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The last few generations were plagued not only by heat output issues, poor pricing, and underwhelming performance in all but gaming, but also suffered irreparable manufacturing defects. The new lineup is essentially more of the same.

I always try to buy the better product, when given a choice, and it’ll take a lot of convincing me to consider this

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

also suffered irreparable manufacturing defects. The new lineup is essentially more of the same.

This chip is manufactured by TSMC, so that'd be on them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Intel QA failing to audit third party suppliers properly is Intel's fault.

[–] fluxx 8 points 3 months ago

You don't buy from TSMC, but from Intel. Also, AMD also uses TSMC, they didn't have such problems recently.

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

Intel is the architect, TSMC does the building, and they're definitely building to plan. Thus, your leaky roof is the fault of the architect who wasn't really considering the existence of rain when designing the house.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] EleventhHour 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

because of greed, no less

sweet sweet schadenfreude

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Lmfao, get fucked intel. Do better next time

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I might buy it when they go on a blowout sale.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Might want to wait even on that idea until we know they don't destroy themselves. (kinda have to do that with all intel now, sad)

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

Based Germans know the inherent dangers posed by Intel Management Engine.

[–] Jumi 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My current CPU is still overpowered and that probably won't change so quickly

[–] linearchaos 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My 7th gens are just starting to become a problem for gaming.

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

I upgraded my gaming PC from an 4th gen i7 4770 last year. And mostly to get a better GPU. The CPU rarely was the bottleneck

[–] Jumi 1 points 3 months ago

I have a Ryzen 9 5950X and my biggest problem is keeping it cool.

[–] linearchaos 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, you still need the CPU to move all the data to the video card and to and from the memory. The stuff I play doesn't mind 30 frames per second, I'm not really much of a stickler for high settings. But even the shitty unity games are starting to struggle

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Im on fourth gen intel, tbh I feel no need to upgrade :3

[–] deltapi 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean 4th gen core i? If that's the case, I only recently upgraded from it as well. If you actually mean 4th gen Intel...how's that 286 doing for you?

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

It works well enough, I love my Thinkpad T440p :3

[–] deltapi 2 points 3 months ago

I have a T430 that still sees use as an occasional web browsing & Arduino coding machine. I bought it used in 2016 without HDD for $150, and I don't think I've gotten better value for money with any of my other computer purchases to-date.

[–] mohammed_alibi 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same, running a E5 2697 v4 (18C/36T) (Broadwell) that I bought used about 2 years ago. Also have a server running Ivy Bridge CPU.

I don't game much, but this CPU is perfect for productivity type of work.

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

the only reason i replaced mine is the cheap chinese motherboard i got along it shit itself.

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

What do you even need new, "faster" CPUs for? Serious question.