Considering Gamers Nexus track record it’ll be interesting to see how this works out
I expect Intel to come off worse in this exchange. GN and L1 are doing some absurd amounts of research and experimentation on this, from what I’ve heard so far. I’m really looking forward to them disproving a bunch of bullshit from Intel. This might even yield a class-action suit.
It seems crazy that intel were forced into a full recall by the backlash over the FDIV bug in the 90’s, but now they get away with far worse.
They were relatively quick to pull the 1.13GHz Pentium III from the market when it turned out to have stability issues from pushing Coppermine too far.
This feels like a repeat of that, but with Intel sticking their heads in the sand and screwing over customers instead.
Not that crazy. Back then they were a luxury item and competition could easily spring up if they lost control of the market. Now they’re a necessity, competition is scarce, and they have deals with most major manufacturers to keep them in businesses even with faulty products. It’s standard late-capitalism consolidation at work.
Buy new and charge back. They defraud us.
Don’t they usually check serial numbers?
Not usually, they don’t want to pay staff. Anyways, they’re criminals.
With the i9, Intel is screwing their most profitable customers.
Early 1st gen ryzens segfaulted under certain workloads (particularly during compilations)
So it’s not like AMD is stellar that regard. Everyone has a faulty product occasionally.
But AFAIK AMD didn’t deny RMAs
I must have won the silicon lottery because I’ve had no issues with my 13900K
yet
I feel lucky too. I have a 14900k that’s stable. I did have some minor stability issues after I built it, but dialing back the motherboard’s idiotic default settings plus a few BIOS updates cleared that up. With that said, if I had to do over, I’d build an AMD system. One of the big reasons I built Intel is that historically my Intel builds have been much more stable and less problematic than my AMD builds.
I’ve been running a 5950X since 2020 with nary a hiccup, fwiw. My system before that was an old 2600K that I was just far to lazy to upgrade for a very long time lol
The 2500k/2600k was such a good processor. My favorite Intel build I’ve done had a 2500k I overclocked to 4.8GHz back when bitcoin was $10.
