Intel's 9th Gen 8-core s-series CPUs will be soldered - Report
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I bet this new launch means new launch of vulnerabilities 
In all seriousness we should have solder on every cpu. Just another way to make people spend more money i guess.
In all seriousness we should have solder on every cpu. Just another way to make people spend more money i guess.
Dawelio
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Yup, only now soldering their CPUs, when AMD were the clever ones and did all of their Ryzen ones from the beginning.
Just now Intel actually jumps on that train, years after ruling the industry. And after AMD clearing the floor under their feet and showing them the (proper) way it's done.
Intel WAS soldering CPUs back in the day, on the last decent Intel platform they released before deciding to sodomize the enthusiast, the X79 chipset (socket 2011). My i7 3820 was soldered, and even OCed mildly to 4.3ghz, it doesn't see 60C under load (close, 57-59). Then Intel released the PCIE crippled X99 chipset (for lower end CPUs anyway), and the decline started there.
AlienALX
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X79 was about when AMD gave up, so Intel started cutting costs and manufacturing costs and providing tiny pieces of silicon on a very thin board with no solder.
It was only years later that 90% of PC enthusiasts realised they were being conned (when Ryzen released, even though several engineers had soldered Intel chips and one even wrote a blog about it). Yet still brainwashed people refused to accept it, citing that he had killed one in the process. That is pretty obvious, what with him not being Intel.
Any way, nice to see (for those who simply can't tear themselves away from Intel) that they are not getting *as* ripped off any more.
AlienALX
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No chance. Too many noobs crushing them.
Yup, very sad. Look back at that platform now. My QUAD CORE el cheapo 3820 CPU has 40 PCIE lanes going direct to the CPU, no silly extra chips needed, and that CPU cost me $300CDN brand new. Even on a MICRO-ATX motherboard (Rampage IV Gene), I could do 3-way SLI at 8x/8x/8x. I can STILL do something on THAT old board that my current Ryzen rig can't even do, run dual GPUs at 16x/16x PCIE. If I wanted to, I could stuff a 12 core 24 thread Xeon into this thing and STILL have a kick ass system, even though it's YEARS old. I just bought a used hex core 3970x for about $200 that will put more life into this old dog.
Intel used to be able to do some good work when they had some competition. Lord knows where THAT went, since they seem to have utterly lost their minds since Ryzen came out.
AlienALX
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You could probably easily pick up a 10 or 12 core depending on the board for very little tbh. My last X79 CPU was a 8 core 2680V2 (Ivy) that ran at about 3.6ghz. Damn fine CPU tbh. I paid £130 for it, super ages ago. Loads of lanes, PCIE3.0 and etc. Was sad to sell it, but I just had no use for it any more.
Yeah I could, but I don't need the cores, which is why I went with the 3970X 6-core. I can OC that to a reasonable level and have a stonking 6-core, soldered, running cool as ice. I *could* have gone with a 12 core Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, but that was twice the price of the 3970X. If I needed the cores for work, I would have been all over that, but this is a backup gaming rig. That might actually become my main rig again with my 1080TIs just to see how it stacks up to my Ryzen system.
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