The thing about this one is that at the time all I could tell is that something between the RAM, motherboard and CPU was finicky. RAM sticks strongly prefered some configs over others, the entire thing felt a bit shaky.
I didn’t notice the instability until months into having the chip, and I didn’t know what it was about. I assumed it was a silicon lottery thing and because the ASUS motherboard seemed to arbitrarily decide what clocks and powers it wanted in real time I assumed it was just an edge case, manually fixed it and moved on with my life.
Because that’s the PC market today. Everything runs ahead of official specs and is purchased based on OC performance. My RAM is supposed to be at a "default"of 50% its advertised speed, which is what the XMP profile says. My CPU is supposed to run falt out at turbo speeds even though the nominal clock speed is much lower. The motherboard doesn’t even bother with default configs, it runs its own test cycle for the cooling and sets itself based on what it sees.
It’s dumb as hell. Nothing is rated for anything close to realistic. You just slot in a piece of hardware and wait to see how fast it goes by trial and error. Honestly, the Intel thing is bad, but it was bound to happen sooner or later, the way we buy and sell PC hardware these days.
Interesting, I haven’t used an intel desktop CPU since 2012 (was laptop only till 2018 and then switched to AMD because it felt like a better deal).
But what you describe is unacceptable for such a large semiconductor company.
The thing about this one is that at the time all I could tell is that something between the RAM, motherboard and CPU was finicky. RAM sticks strongly prefered some configs over others, the entire thing felt a bit shaky.
I didn’t notice the instability until months into having the chip, and I didn’t know what it was about. I assumed it was a silicon lottery thing and because the ASUS motherboard seemed to arbitrarily decide what clocks and powers it wanted in real time I assumed it was just an edge case, manually fixed it and moved on with my life.
Because that’s the PC market today. Everything runs ahead of official specs and is purchased based on OC performance. My RAM is supposed to be at a "default"of 50% its advertised speed, which is what the XMP profile says. My CPU is supposed to run falt out at turbo speeds even though the nominal clock speed is much lower. The motherboard doesn’t even bother with default configs, it runs its own test cycle for the cooling and sets itself based on what it sees.
It’s dumb as hell. Nothing is rated for anything close to realistic. You just slot in a piece of hardware and wait to see how fast it goes by trial and error. Honestly, the Intel thing is bad, but it was bound to happen sooner or later, the way we buy and sell PC hardware these days.