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plumpan
@plumpan

I think running any modern CPU in "we've got to come #1 in benchmarks" TDP settings is stupid, actually.


plumpan
@plumpan

I do not have the strength to ignore ALL of the "wow look at our new computer shit" trade show stuff, and there's a lot of "this cooler performs X degrees better at 300W load".

And I'm thinking, why the fuck is there a 300W heat load on there? And I remember that Intel got really desperate and started pushing 300W through their normal desktop parts in an effort to remain relevant. And then AMD more or less did similar with THEIR parts to keep up.

Both I believe can be set back to normal levels of power with a surprisingly small amount of performance loss from it. And it saves you a lot of money on cooling and electricity.


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in reply to @plumpan's post:

Microsoft has done a lot of horrible things, but i think officially dropping support for a ton of very capable CPUs that are less than a decade old in Windows 11 is one of the worst. yeah, you can work around it, but the vast majority of people don't know that and are just going to throw money at a new machine they really don't need (and there's always the risk of MS introducing some new bullshit that requires a modern CPU)

I was going to make a comment about how newer software is starting to drop support for stuff lacking newer AVX instructions, and I think if someone is buying a new CPU for a primary system then it's worth looking a bit newer. This is starting to happen in the *nix space too, but as with most things there the backwards compatibility will remain for many many years, usually past the point where the hardware is performant.

In the case of Microsoft, they have shared interest to encourage hardware refreshes, so of course they have to find weird arbitrary reasons to antiquate a perfectly good PC. With every bit of news that has come out of 11, I'd argue it's probably a feature for one's PC not to support it. "Disable TPM in bios to prevent W11 upgrade" just straight up sounds like Good Advice at this point.