The Joke
The first is The Disposable Socket. Well, what else would you call a socket that even the geniuses responsible for it says is only good for twenty "careful" insertions. And when you wear it out, just buy a new . . . motherboard.
This is like changing the oil filter on your car "carefully" twenty times, then having to replace your car.
Or being able to change batteries just twenty times in any device.
Imagine if certain very human sockets were rated for only twenty insertions.
Intel may well be technically correct in that twenty is enough for most people, but that doesn't matter. You tell the average Joe about this "twenty" rule, and a lot of them won't buy the product even if they never intend to change the CPU.
That's because this offends most people's sensibilities when it comes to how durable a product ought to be. Relevant or not, it screams "flimsy" and "cheap" to anyone aware of this.
Twenty "careful" insertions? What happens if a couple of those insertions aren't so careful? What's "uncareful?" Obviously, hammering the CPU into place isn't "careful," but it isn't "careful" now.
Seems to me you have to be pretty careful as it is to put a CPU in today. How much more careful does one have to be? Even if you are, in the end, you are dead, anyway.
Intel is saying this is no worse than earlier sockets. Huh? I've never heard of anybody wearing out a socket, have you?
BTW, how are you going to know your time is up? Obviously, if it doesn't work at all, that might be a good sign, but that often initially happens after replacing a CPU for reasons that have nothing to do with the CPU replacement (nudging other components out of place, not clearing CMOS, just to cite two possibilities).
Let's assume that socket is actually wearing out. Assume the machine crashes once in a while, or often. Is it the socket, or something else? How can you test for something like that?
The only explanations I can come up with for this "feature" are drugs or brain damage. Which is it, Intel?
If I were a mobo maker or a big OEM, I'd move heaven and earth to be come with a sturdier socket, or at least a detachable socket that can be replaced in my mobos.
No Joke At All
It says much about our times that something like a disposable socket is not even the worst news about this platform.
Let's face it, Prescott is not exactly overclockers' heaven.
We start with a CPU that still chews up about twice the power of its Hammer competitor to perform tasks. It will now sit on top of a socket practically designed to break. To significantly overclock it, you almost need a degree in cryogenics.
Could matters get worse?
Why, yes. Just in case there were any overclockers foolish enough to buy Prescotts left, Intel has decided it is time to implement a lock on FSB overclocking!
Go over 10%, and it crashes.
While there seems to be a way to partially work around the problem, it's unclear at the moment whether the workaround only frees up another 5-10% or whether the CPU can't handle more than that.
No doubt, Intel's justification for this lock will be "safety." Given the frailty of the product, it is a plausible assertion.
But what happens later? Think the feature will go away when the emergency ends?
In the long term, unless a real workaround is found, you have to at least suspect the handwriting is on the wall for us and our days may be numbered.
One can of course say, "There's always AMD," until AMD decides to implement this, too.
You say, "They'll never do that?" Lots of people said just that when Intel installed the multiplier lock back in 1998, too. The same people who put the multiplier lock into AMD chips are still running the company. Given their pricing and positioning policy, they're hardly likely to be as sympathetic to people cranking up their cheapest chips as they've been in the past.
All this tells me that if I had to bet on it, AMD will be more likely than not to say "Me, too" sooner rather than later, say, in a year or two?
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Először mikor elolvastam csak röhögtem ,hogy az Intel mennyire luser dolgokat ki nem tud találni és milyen rohadt pénzéhes dolgai vannak...Aztán elgondolkodtam és nem is találtam olyan vicesnek a dolgot mint inkább szánalmasnak...
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