QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoThere is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanentwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1308cross-posted to: gaming@lemmy.mlpcgaming@lemmy.cagames@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
arrow-up1308external-linkThere is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanentwww.theverge.comQuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@lemmy.mlpcgaming@lemmy.cagames@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
minus-squarecRazi_man@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 months agoI recently built a 12th Gen PC, expecting an upgrade to 13th Gen will be a cheap and significant upgrade path soon. Now there isn’t going to be any way to know if a second-hand CPU is damaged in this way.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·3 months agoEbay is probably going to be flooded with damaged Intel CPUs.
minus-squareastanix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoUsed to be that a CPU was the safest used pc part to buy… not anymore :/
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoWell at least it will be cheaper
I recently built a 12th Gen PC, expecting an upgrade to 13th Gen will be a cheap and significant upgrade path soon. Now there isn’t going to be any way to know if a second-hand CPU is damaged in this way.
Ebay is probably going to be flooded with damaged Intel CPUs.
Used to be that a CPU was the safest used pc part to buy… not anymore :/
That’s why I went this route 🫤
Well at least it will be cheaper