Comment on Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 months agoSo 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.
AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t disagree - I can’t imagine that ever happening in real life. But taking the cooler off while it’s running? I can definitely envision my idiot 13-year-old self doing that back when I was building my first PC.
Given this information, I probably still would have gone with the Athlon. Are you saying that a report about a very-difficult-to-trigger defect in the thermal safety single-handedly convinced thousands/millions of potential customers to choose the Pentium instead?
I’m guessing that’s why thermal safety was a selling point, no?
AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It was part a larger unethical media campaign and bribery chain by Intel. They did their damn best to hurt AMD, and they managed to pull it off, but some time later AMD brought their asses to court and sued over it, with literally billions in damages and agreements that Intel had to pay.
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A ha! This part of the story hasn’t been brought up yet, and it sounds like it would completely change my opinion.