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Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage (Turns out that press release yesterday wasn't the whole story)

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Fucking shameful. Intel refusing RMAs on their known-defective CPUs (which they kept selling when they knew that they were defective) and then when people figure out the issues, Intel hides half of the story and tricks consumers into thinking they can just turn down the voltage in their BIOs and solve the problem which is only somewhat prolonged. I understand Intel and AMD are both companies that are financially and legally (as they are publicly traded) incentivized to milk the consumer for as much money as they can, but this is fucking shameful.

First time hearing about how scummy intel is? Nvidia is just the same. There are massive lists of all the nasty things both companies have done. Denying RMA's on cpus they knew were faulty doesnt shock me in the least lol. Im not saying AMD is some blameless angel but compared to Intel and Nvidias history they may as well be. I think the biggest AMD scandal was the "8350 not a real 8 core" debacle which was just arguing semantics over what can be called a core, otherwise its just irrelevant business drama, but Intel and Nvidia? Man the things they have done. Anti consumer, anti competition, you name it its on those long lists. Neither of them will ever see another cent from me thats for sure.

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Yeah don't buy 13th and 14th Gen, especially not the used ones.

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I was this close to buying a 13700K instead of my 7800X3D. Jesus fuck I dodged that bullet big time.

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GNs reporting has been top notch. These guys actually helping bring light to real issues left and right. Level1Techs too. Glad I bought their coasters.

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Another nail in Intel's coffin. Just wish they'd stop nailing from the inside.

They are staying true to their tagline: Intel Inside

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Glad to see the clowns spreading rumors about GNs legitimacy over at twitter being swiftly put down.

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Ouch this is going to set Intel back quite a bit. Hope this issue doesn't work it's way into the next generation of products.

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