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0 pointscyberax1y ago0 comments

I guess you're too young to remember the videos of an AMD CPU (Athlon) getting hot enough to fry eggs the moment a heatsink is removed.

For years, AMD survived as a cheaper solution to Intel. They got competitive with Opteron (and invented x86-64), while Intel was trying to wring out the last drops out of Netburst.

Then Intel Core came out and Opteron got back to being a cheaper but slower solution.

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whamlastxmas1y ago

This would be good evidence if the goal was to not cook eggs quickly with a removed heat sink. It’s also a silly anecdote because it’s not like any processors of that class run especially hotter than others given peak loads. I’m sure they could both cook eggs.

The point you’ve given no argument for was that AMD didn’t suffer from Intels illegal practices. Not who cooks eggs better.

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whamlastxmas1y ago

The point you’ve given no argument for was that AMD didn’t suffer from Intels illegal practices. Not who cooks eggs better.

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