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
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.
Intel QA failing to audit third party suppliers properly is Intel’s fault.
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.
You don’t buy from TSMC, but from Intel. Also, AMD also uses TSMC, they didn’t have such problems recently.
Im on fourth gen intel, tbh I feel no need to upgrade :3
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.
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Intel is fucked.