• nokama@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And all of the failures that plagued the 13 and 14 gens. That was the main reason I switched to AMD. My 13th gen CPU was borked and had to be kept underclocked.

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        2 days ago

        It would cause system instability (programs/games crashing) when running normally. I had to underclock it through Intel’s XTU to make things stable again.

        This was after all the BIOS updates from ASUS and with all BIOS settings set to the safe options.

        When I originally got it I did notice that it was getting insanely high scores in benchmarks, then the story broke of how Intel and motherboard manufacturers were letting the CPUs clock as high as possible until they hit the thermal limit. Then mine started to fail I think about a year after I got it.

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      2 days ago

      In the 486 era (90s) there was a not official story about the way Intel marked its CPUs: instead of starting slow and accelerate until failure, start as fast as you can and slow down until it doesn’t fail.