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Betonhaus said:
I think AM3 or something used the same style of clip, as I distinctly remember swapping out the Watercooler for an air cooler on a system that used a clip like that
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As late as AM4 you had some cheaper models using plastic clips. At least they usually gave you a flat surface you could press with just your thumb, but the cooler was still effectively only usable once, because the clips would bend and become useless when you pinched them close to remove the cooler again.
 
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Dawdler said:
Very true, 486sx was just dx with fpu disabled. So basically, you were buying two cpu's for price of one.
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Eh, at least originally the 486SX's were supposedly 486DX's with bad FPU units that they binned down. And when the yields improved the newer SX's had the FPU removed from the silicon entirely. So more like 1.75 CPUs for the price of 1.75 CPUs.
 
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The Ugly One said:
Imagine CPU + accelerators + RAM all on the same package, but rather than the SKUs we have now, you have an online configurator where you can specify what, exactly you want on your package.
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I think Apple kinda does this already. If you've ever custom-ordered a Mac with an uncommon arrangement of SoC + RAM + storage, it'll usually take a week to ship and come straight from a factory in China.

Dawdler said:
The times when you got nothing on already bad cpu and still get charged pretty penny for it.
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The times when you got a bad cpu, got charged a pretty penny for it, and then got charged a pretty penny again to enable hyperthreading
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Is anyone using a Nvidia graphics card with the proprietary drivers on Debian? Whenever I open steam there's a vram leak that eventually crashes heavier games I should otherwise be able to play
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
In this case you get the best binning possible for the best Alder Lake CPU, and avoid any 13th/14th gen problems.
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Pretty much. E cores got fixed in 13/14th gen, but if you don't use them it's fine. I run with 200mV offset stock. Cpu draws like 80W completely loaded. More than enough performance for daily use
 
13th/14th gen have the same Gracemont E-cores as 12th. Mine work fine. There are some applications with excessive context-switching on Windows 10 because the metric Win 10 uses to track core utilization assumes homogeneous cores. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
 
Dawdler said:
Hardest mode, upper tab was against psu. Good luck.

I repaired many mobos that were damaged by a screw driver
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it can get even worse, that cooler is at least one of the better ones that the screwdriver is trapped (the angle still makes a pain in the ass when you try to press down).
the worse ones just had a little 5mm hook on the outside, best hope your screwdriver doesn't slide off after all the force you put onto it because right underneath there's only motherboard.

bonus points for some coolers having such a high pressure with un-smoothed edges they'd cut the hook on the socket right off...

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The times when you got nothing on already bad cpu and still get charged pretty penny for it.
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intel inside?
 
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Early computer stuff was just shit and it was no joy to work on any of these computers. Except 68k Macs, which somehow are an utter joy to work on even today. (Not kidding, some computers of them had "screwless designs" where you could take the entire thing apart without even a screwdriver. Not even the mainboard had any. That was in the early 90s!) That said, e.g. MacOS would only accept certain brands and versions of SCSI harddrives so yes, they always pulled that kind of shit too. Computers' maintenance went sideways when cases became vertical. That will never be practical from a maintenance standpoint. I have a horizontal Node 202 case for my mini-ITX system and it's also nice to work on, if you accept the small size and do proper cable management. (and throw away these ridiculous stick-on rubber feet and replace them with proper screw-ins)

I also remember switching out resistor networks on a few ISA bus mainboards (and soldering thick wires to the underside on the voltage and ground rails) in industrial settings to get things like 32-port serial cards running, so it's nice that we also still have design faults like that in mainboards. Warms my heart.
 
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