Comment on Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months agoOh boy the Tom’s Hardware “scandal”. That story was 100% planted by Intel. It was before Athlon though, it was the K6. If the cooler dropped off, the AMD thermal safety didn’t react quickly enough. In my 40 years in IT I have NEVER heard about a cooler falling off the socket even once, except for that paid for cesspool of shit article.
That story together with the 180° they did on RAMBUS to fgavor P¤ have made me NEVER use TOM’s Hardware since. It was 100% dishonest paid for shilling. Either that or so idiotic it’s not worth reading.
Even you mentioning that now about 30 years later, it still pisses me off. 🤬 🤬 🤬
So they put out an article claiming that the thermal safety was defective, and the thermal safety was defective, and you see that as some grandiose conspiracy perpetrated by Intel? And you’re still upset about it?
Even if Intel did discover and publish the defect, what exactly did they do wrong? I would reasonably expect AMD and Intel to be testing each other’s hardware constantly. Would you have preferred that Intel didn’t publish their findings?
The thermal safety was not defective, only a few years prior thermal safety wasn’t even available. The article created an artificial situation that never occurs in reality, and claimed the CPU should be able to handle that.
So you’re saying that the CPU burning out when the cooler is removed, is the thermal safety working as intended? Sorry, I was not familiar with the situation at the time, but the way you initially described the issue doesn’t sound like foul play.
The cooler falling off is an impossible situation. It’s a completely bullshit metric. Intel CPUs of the time ran hotter, used more power, and had lower IPC, hence the higher clock speeds but lower actual performance. They had to invent some bullshit to make themselves look good.
Besides, just a while before that generation thermal safety wasn’t even a thing, if you remove the cooler from older Intel processors it just catches fire lol
mindlight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So the journalists are still covering for Intel to this day 15 years later, but the enthusiasts know the truth?
I’m still not saying you’re wrong but you have to admit it’s kinda strange a quick Google doesn’t reveal anything?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So considering Intel used illegal means to keep AMD out, and was fined a billion dollars for it. You think they didn’t touch gray areas in their marketing too? You seem to have no knowledge of what went on in IT in the 90’s, and be very naive, or maybe just a shill or a troll.
mindlight@lemm.ee 7 months ago
What in “Not that I think Intel wouldn’t cheat, because they’ve showed what they’re “capable of” time after time…” was unclear for you? Your conclusion from the above statement is that I’m probably a shill or just doesn’t know IT as good as you because I don’t agree with you on the spot? Really? Is that what you using your full mental capacity was able to conclude from my statement?
Let me just clear up it a little for you: The issue isn’t that Intel was (is) an asshole, it’s that you blurb out unsubstantiated claims and when called out on it you claim that there’s a conspiracy lead by Intel, all the journalists are on it but we all should take your word for it.
We both have all the information in the world literally in our hands and still you are unable to link to facts that support your statement and that is my fault somehow?
Nice talking to you. Have an awesome weekend. I will.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hmm, do you remember the RAMBUS debacle, and the 180° turnaround Toms Hardware did on that in favor of Intel and P4?
I think that very clearly substantiates that Toms Hardware had an agenda to favor Intel.
It’s not my fault if you are unaware of facts that were common knowledge among IT specialists at the time.