alessandro to PC Gaming · 2 months agoIntel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recallwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1214arrow-down1external-linkIntel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recallwww.tomshardware.comalessandro to PC Gaming · 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoWindows required CPU’s to have certain extensions/instructions to use the newest version, which might have required buying a new CPU and thus getting one of the affected ones. However, I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame Microsoft for this.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·2 months agoM$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.
minus-squareqaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoOh yeah, I forgot about TPM 2.0 and was just thinking about POPCNT etc.
Windows required CPU’s to have certain extensions/instructions to use the newest version, which might have required buying a new CPU and thus getting one of the affected ones. However, I don’t think it’s reasonable to blame Microsoft for this.
M$ is not the source of this problem, but they did force TPM 2.0 on their OS, forcing people to throw away older CPUs, so they made it much worse.
Oh yeah, I forgot about TPM 2.0 and was just thinking about
POPCNTetc.