Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent
tal@lemmy.today 3 months ago150W instead of 250
Yeah, when I saw that the CPU could pull 250W, I initially thought that it was a misprint in the spec sheet. That is kind of a nutty number. I have a space heater that can run at low at 400W, and you can get very low-power ones that exceed the TDP on that processor.
That being said, I don’t believe that Intel intentionally passed the initial QA for the generation thinking that there were problems.
And you could also have said “this is absurd” at many times in the past when other performance barriers came up.
I remember – a long time ago now – when the idea of processors that needed active cooling or they would destroy themselves seemed rather alarming and fragile. Processors capable of at least shutting down on overheat, or later throttling themselves, didn’t come along until well later. But if we’d stopped with passive heatsink cooling, we’d be using far slower systems (though probably a lot quieter!)
MudMan@fedia.io 3 months ago
You're not wrong, but "we've been winging it for decades" is not necessarily a good defense here.
That said, I do think they did look at their performance numbers and made a conscious choice to lean into feeding these more power and running them hotter, though. Whether the impact would be lower with more conservative power specs is debatable, but as you say there are other reasons why trying to fake generational leaps by making CPUs capable of fusing helium is not a great idea.