@QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoThere is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanentwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1279arrow-down1external-linkThere is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanentwww.theverge.com@QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square30fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-square@cRazi_man@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish28•10 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-square@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish19•10 months agoEbay is probably going to be flooded with damaged Intel CPUs.
minus-square@astanix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish12•10 months agoUsed to be that a CPU was the safest used pc part to buy… not anymore :/
minus-square@trolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•10 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