• Diplomjodler
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    6922 days ago

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

  • dinckel
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    4821 days ago

    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]
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      -321 days ago

      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.

      • @fluxx
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        720 days ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        720 days 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.

  • Toes♀
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    1322 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      2022 days 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)

  • @Jumi
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    620 days ago

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

    • @linearchaos
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      220 days ago

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

      • SkaveRat
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        220 days ago

        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
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          119 days ago

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

        • @linearchaos
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          117 days 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

    • @deltapi
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      1721 days ago

      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?

        • @deltapi
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          220 days 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
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      220 days ago

      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]
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        20 days ago

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