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by KCUOJJQJ 2214 days ago
>part of our money back

A replacement CPU would make more sense. It should support the same operating systems and motherboards. I wonder if Intel would be asked by a lot of people to replace their CPUs.

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If history is any tell Intel allocated $475M pre-tax charge against earnings when they did Pentium FDIV replacements -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug . But I assume most people are more likely to raise a ruckus for potentially invalid computations, than for subtle potentially leaky computations.
Does a replacement CPU with similar performance even exist?