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by ajross 846 days ago
> I realize this all looks like finger-pointing

You think that might have something to do with you having put "Intel Processor Instability" in the title of a whitepaper on an issue that you already root caused to motherboard settings? I mean, did you want to troll a big flame war? Because this is how you troll a big flame war.
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rygorous 846 days ago
It's an issue that, while the mainboard is involved, happens to occur on (at least) the 3 best-selling mainboard vendors compatible with that family of CPUs, at stock settings, so that you can take an affected CPU, swap it through a selection of the most popular mainboards compatible with said CPU and see the same kind of instability problems.

I don't think it's unreasonable to call that Intel's problem, maybe not in terms of culpability (but truly, nobody cares) but definitely in the sense this is doing damage to their brand. If the mainboards are all out of spec then they need to talk about this publicly, rein them in, start a certification program, whatever. Being publicly completely fine with this as long as it results in good review scores but then starting to go "well actually..." when there's stability issues on a small fraction of sold units is not a good look.

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ajross 844 days ago
> I don't think it's unreasonable to call that Intel's problem

You didn't call it Intel's problem. You said Intel CPUs were "unstable", which simply isn't true. If your title was "Intel doesn't police default BIOS clocking", we wouldn't be this far down in the senseless thread about semantics. (Though to be fair, you wouldn't have been on the front page as long either, so maybe that's as intended.)

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