Graybeards know Intel has always been this shitty. There was a time when Intel and AMD used the same socket type, the legendary 386 and 486 generations were amazing. Intel needed a way to stand out from AMD and Cyrex, a long forgotten big chip maker that died when Intel walked away from the x86 naming convention and used their own socket type to make the Pentium. But that’s a story for someone else to tell at another time.
Intel started from betrayal and grew out of spite. When it flourished it would use its influence on governments to avoid including bids on non-Intel computers. The Wiki article for Intel has a section for legal issues AND a separate section for product issues, a distinction needed for very few other companies. Intel has always been underhanded and evil - they just also happened to design fantastic CPU architecture for a while.
True, but don’t forget the K6-2 and how they screwed up the paths so when it heated up it’d short itself out. Coupled with the lack of a thermal regulator and you could turn an AMD into a pile of silicon.
I think you’re thinking of the Socket A Athlon/Duron/Sempron. A lot of coolers used shitty mounting designs so it was possible to get it off alignment or over-pressure it and crack the die, and no heatspreader + poor thermal controls allowed for a meltdown if the mountng was bad.
The K6-2 was pretty solid aside from not quite holding performance crowns.
Graybeards know Intel has always been this shitty. There was a time when Intel and AMD used the same socket type, the legendary 386 and 486 generations were amazing. Intel needed a way to stand out from AMD and Cyrex, a long forgotten big chip maker that died when Intel walked away from the x86 naming convention and used their own socket type to make the Pentium. But that’s a story for someone else to tell at another time.
Intel started from betrayal and grew out of spite. When it flourished it would use its influence on governments to avoid including bids on non-Intel computers. The Wiki article for Intel has a section for legal issues AND a separate section for product issues, a distinction needed for very few other companies. Intel has always been underhanded and evil - they just also happened to design fantastic CPU architecture for a while.
True, but don’t forget the K6-2 and how they screwed up the paths so when it heated up it’d short itself out. Coupled with the lack of a thermal regulator and you could turn an AMD into a pile of silicon.
I think you’re thinking of the Socket A Athlon/Duron/Sempron. A lot of coolers used shitty mounting designs so it was possible to get it off alignment or over-pressure it and crack the die, and no heatspreader + poor thermal controls allowed for a meltdown if the mountng was bad.
The K6-2 was pretty solid aside from not quite holding performance crowns.