Intel Core i9 will be software upgradeable with scratch cards

> Go to a store
> Grab a bunch of cards (50+)
> Point a gun at the cashier
> Tell him to activate every single one
> Go home
> Resell for 60% of their retail value
Find a flaw in my plan

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>>60736385
I hope thr part of you getting ass raped isn't a flaw.

>>60736385
duma you could do the same with giftcards. That will take way to long to activate all of them. Might as well just ask for the money if you are going to point a gun at him.

Holy shit those are some faggoty motherboards.

>>60736369
Cards like these would actually make sense though.

What do you think Intel is doing now? Exactly this, but you're too stupid to realize it. AMD did it too with their tri-core shit.

The R&D goes into making the best core, not the best core and some mediocre ones.

They just purposely gimp other cores or physically remove them despite the cost being negligible. Every CPU company already effectively does this, but since it's done with hardware people don't seem to care (Linus' video basically says this).

If "upgrade codes" existed the only downside would be people would find a way to unlock the cores for free.

> cucked by intel, again

>>60736432
> If "upgrade codes" existed the only downside would be people would find a way to unlock the cores for free.
Really fucking doubt it considering the DRM is built into the hardware itself and will probably do a ton of online checks to ensure authenticity.
This is your fucking processor you're talking about, now even with more backdoors in the name of DRM

>>60736449
We found a way to completely neutralize ME, and people have found ways to unlock the 4th core in tri-core AMDs back in the day.

I think we'd find a way to break the core DRM.

>>60736385
>turn a shoplifting charge into an armed robbery charge

Make sure to tell us how prison is, Anon.

>>60736474
You can't shoplift scratch cards. They have to be activated at the cash register

>>60736474
okay how about this
i put a banana on my left hand, put it under my shirt and point it at the cashier like a gun?
i technically don't have a gun so they can't charge me with armed robbery if i'm caught

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>>60736369

>buy a 500 USD motherboard
>have to buy a 300 USD flash drive to unlock RAID 1 and 5

can't make this shit up KEK

>>60736480
Would a key gen work? Why would they need activation? You're not loading money into the cards.

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>arbitrary restrictions on NVMe RAID
>only RAID0 is supported without spending more money
Jesus Christ, Intel

>>60736385
Cool plan, I just plan on buying AMD products instead. Muh 10% fewer frames in gayman is meaningless.

>>60736500
No, the charge of armed robbery includes using "simulated weaponry." You'll get armed robbery for hiding a finger-pistol under your shirt.

>t. served on a jury for an armed robbery case

>>60736503
> Would a key gen work?
No
Why would they need activation?
To prevent them from being shoplifted. They're easy to conceal and you can even cut like 95% of the useless plastic on the card and keep only the scratch code for maximum concealment. Or you could even bring your cellphone and activate them right at the store.

Intel is Dead, What the Fuck are they thinking?

>>60736508

and apparently it only works with INTEL's own solid state drives. This hasn't been confirmed though but Linus mentioned that it was the "word on the street" at the moment

>>60736369
Awesome, this gives AMD even more room to catch up.

>>60736369
This is so confusing to me. So do the motherboard manufacturers also get a profit from these scratch cards?

>>60736369
The kikes went to far with this. No more kikery.

>>60736432
>They just purposely gimp other cores or physically remove them despite the cost being negligible.

>What is binning
It's as it sounds. They purpose defective chips.

Is Intel trying to get the gamers and enthusiasts on the HEDT platform?

>>60736369

This raises some interesting questions.
Does the RFID chip on the upcoming CPUs act as some sort of activation catalyst and stores activation data for these unlockable features? Meaning buy a card or dongle to activate and somehow the RFID ensures ID storage of these and sends them to a activation server to verify and validate feature activation and locks them to these chips to preventing reuse or sharing of the same dongle to activate features in other chips?

I'm quite confused myself about X299 despite owning a c602 2P dual 8 core Xeon rig. Features of the upcoming platform, especially the added on digital restrictions/addon seems to be planned in advanced rather than appeal interesting in comparison of the competitor's upcoming high end desktop chips and platform.

At the very least I'm excited to see we have a choice again in the high end platform than in almost a decade than be vendor locked into anti-consumer practices like this. I know what I'm going get on my next build and its not going to be X299 this time around.

WHAT THE FUCK?

Are y'all telling me that they're making a cpu that comes gimped and you have to use an activation code to unlock the full potential of the cpu?

Is this real life? I sincerely hope that nobody is tolerating this shit

>>60736567

lolno, Intel sharing money? No way.

It would be hilarious if all the motherboard partnes just flat out refused to make any X299 boards because of this fucking mess. Gigabyte seems to be the only one who ditched Thunderbolt though because of this whole mess

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>>60736610
>Does the RFID chip on the upcoming CPUs act as some sort of activation catalyst and stores activation data for these unlockable features?

That actually makes sense holy shit....

>>60736369

Previously the upgradeable Pentiums were only locked down on the OEM motherboard, putting it into another mobo will enable it fully. How would Intel do this in a widespread manner though?

PC World mentions that it will be a physical dongle to enable different RAID configurations. 3rd party SSD's do work, but only Intel SSD's can be bootable.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3199104/storage/intels-core-i9-and-x299-enable-crazy-raid-configurations-for-a-price.html

>>60736676

read these posts:

>>60736610
>>60736648

The RFID chip on the Core i9 processors probably stores and handles the activation keys for unlockable features

hardware DRM straight on the CPU. insane if true

>>60736548
>and apparently it only works with INTEL's own solid state drives. This hasn't been confirmed though but Linus mentioned that it was the "word on the street" at the moment

PC World confirms this if you want to boot using VROC.

>>60736502
>put moar chipsets
still no pcie 4 though

>>60736637
That doesn't make any sense at all. The board manufacturers would have to provide the locked features whether the consumer decides to upgrade.

>>60736722

shouldn't this classify as anti-competitive behaviour? Intel basically locks out third party SSD manufacturer's from their motherboards

>>60736737

all X299 mobos have all features included but software locked though.

It's probably mandatory for the x299 chipset and Intel will revoke the mobo manufacturer's x299 license if they don't comply.

fucking lmaoing my ass off over here while looking at my ryzen computer

Looks like I'll be buying AMD poo in loo shit. I'm willing to take a performance hit if it means freedom.

>>60736648
Or maybe it stores data of overclocks so they can have more reasons to deny warranty.

>>60736500
>>>/B/ylyl

>>60736500
>>60736527
>i put penis on my left hand, put it under my shirt and point it at the cashier like a gun?

ftfy

>>60736369
and this is a bad thing... how?

>>60736886
Arbitrary restrictions.

>>60736890
but i can upgrayd my cpu without having to swap out hardware

>>60736901
If it's capable of being a better CPU it should be one.

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>>60736604
You tell me.

>>60736904
it's genius, it's like software policies but for hardware now.

This is the future.

Next frontier: subscription based cpus.

I've heard Coffee will be 30% more powerful than Kaby.
>Waiting™ mode activated.

>>60736913
10,000 Facebook posts for only $49.99!

>>60736631
yes you will need to pay $2000 for a cpu, probably around $500 for a motherboard and another $300 for raid support
or you could just get a 16c/32t threadripper for $859 + a $500 mobo
i don't really get what intel is trying to do here, it's like
>here have this good cpu for the worst price you can imagine, oh and don't forget to unlock your raids with this $300 card
and don't forget that the "lower end" x299 CPUs are going to be even more limited, while threadrippers are all the same when it comes to features

>>60736369

FUCKING GREAT NOW WE HAVE HARDWARE DLCs WHAT THE FUCK MAN

>>60736369
finally you can pirate fucking desktop hardware

Hope this shit will NEVER catch on, or else we will be able to LITERALLY download a graphics card in the future.

>>60736941
DOWNLOAD MORE CORES

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>>60736945
Sounds pricey

>>60736901
>my car can speed up to 50km/h and if you pay additional fee it can go up to 120km/h!
>and I don't even have to buy a new car!
It amaze me how someone could even try to spin it as a good thing.

So CPUs are now affected by DLCs, holy shit man.

>>60736931
First 2 ram slots are free of charge, the third and fourth costs $50 each
Same goes for SATA/PCIE/M2 slots

guess my next build will be amd

>>60736913
>Next frontier: subscription based cpus.

>>60736369
>buhuu making money is bad!
kys socialist trash

>>60736968
>not buying cheap intel and pirating more cores

>>60736952
but u'd pay (initially) for a 50km/h car and THEN unlock the better performance if you WANTED.

Would you prefer a car that can't ever potentially go above 50km/h and the only way for you to is to swap out the entire engine?

So let's say it's 2021, you buy a "ryzen 3" 2000x:

8 cores + 8 locked (unlockable via upgrayd code) 200$ for the locked or 350$ for the unlocked out of the box. Upgrayd via code is 200$.

Win-win

>>60736941
This.

>>60736931
The solution is simple: Don't buy intel and pray to god AMD doesn't copy them

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>No one, literally no one bothered to call OP out on his shit.
No one even asked for a source. Watched the video, worst thing that Linus said was that NVMe RAID set ups might be restricted to intel only cards.

>>60737006
amd already said what will be available for the threadripper CPUs, so i don't think they would do any of this

>>60737012
awww is it asbergers or straight up legit autism

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>>60737012
it's funny how you can find all the info needed in like 5 seconds
here you go, this is how the key looks like

>>60736771
protip: you'll gain more performance

the fact that Gamer's Nexus hasn't said anything about this makes me question their biasedness.

Steve Burke is a fucking intel shill if he doesn't atleast mention this absurd software unlockable 300 US dollar shit

>>60736986
Except your still paying for a 16 core CPU and only getting 8 cores
You're a fucking retard

>>60737035
"Intel Core i9 will be software upgradeable with scratch cards = Intel's Core i9 and X299 enable RAID configurations for a high price"

>>60737045
no moron the 8c+8c costs less than the 16c I explicitly stated this. And in this hypothical price line it'd be a little more than a true 8c (no reason for it to exist though given this new business model)

>>60737053
the only difference is that they're not scratch cards but something that looks like a key

>>60736744
>Intel
>anti-competitive behaviour

Nothing new there then.

>>60736527
[citation needed]

>>60736648
Looks like pirating hardware will no longer be a meme...

>>60737012
>>60737053

Are you retarded?

The OP is making fun of a mis-step Intel made in the past and comparing the hardware keys for Kaby Lake-x as akin to Intel making the same mistake all over again.

>>60736689
>hardware DRM straight on the CPU
>insane if true
what is a non-k intel cpu

>>60736631
dlcs where only the beginning

Wow.
It seems that Intel REALLY don't want to maintain control of the workstation/HEDT markets.


Hell, or even servers, they've already said they're more than happy to lose market share in order to maintain their 60% margins

Intel's blood is in the water now. Fools.

AMD is lucky the only person more incompetent than them is the CEO of Intel

>>60736538
> > Would a key gen work?
> No
Yes. There's a keygen for iLO. There will be a keygen for CPUs if this will go beyond HEDT segment, why? Because enterprise will not buy a thousand of those cards and activate it by hand. You may argue they don't replace CPUs now, but it's all about cost.

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>>60736432
>>60736449
>>60736631
>>60736769
>>60736964
>>60736975

>>60736466
>we

>>60736369
back in the Sandy Bridge-E times you'd buy an unlocked one just for stuff like VT-d, because intel would strip it from any unlocked consumer CPU (locked ones have this feature)

Now even the HEDT X series doesn't have VT-d, now that's what I call maximum jewing
so basically
>you want VMs?
>buy xeons, you stupid goy!

>tfw intel has it that we should download additional RAM

LSI and others have done this for years on their RAID cards and the such, it's a good strategy

Heh, I knew something was really fishy when they were offering HCC Xeon dies for HEDT, which would clearly cannibalize their Xeon sales, guess the lack of ECC and DLC explain it now.
Wonder what other surprised Intel has

>>60738304
>Now even the HEDT X series doesn't have VT-d
Any source on that? Because as far as I could see, all of them do have VT-d.

>intel core i9 2000$ edition
>no ecc
>200$ raid
>just wait 2018 for 18c
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>60738819
It would be even funnier if AMD follows with a 24/32 core Epyc after the 18 core Intel comes out.

>>60736449
You are understanding Russian teenagers hackers

Soon there will be be a crack that plays some edgy 8 bit music and has a splash screen of a pigeon

>>60736449
>Really fucking doubt it considering the DRM is built into the hardware itself and will probably do a ton of online checks to ensure authenticity.
Hey that didn't stop countless gaming consoles from being jailbroken, don't speak too soon.

>>60736385
they have the serial codes, they can just disable them after you leave...

Soon /g/ gonna poo in the AMD's loo. The pajeets have won! kek

>>60736369
Intel WalletRaper

>>60736480
>go to register with some scratch cards
>wait for cashier to activate all of them
>pull weapon instead of credit card
>leave with activated cards

Seriously, you don't need to walk into a place waving a gun to rob shit.

>>60739943
>processing product purchase before receiving payment
I seriously hope they don't train retail monkeys like this.

>>60739943
can't u just grab them and run at that point so no weapon is involved

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>>60736610
>>60736648
>>60736689
>>60737035

Following up from my post since yesteday night, I think this spells a clear picture now of how the activation data is recognized through the BIOS. This paints a more clear picture of the function of the RFID chip and its intention.

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>>60744451
>Upgrade Key: Premium
Holy shit.

>>60739412
but then you just return with your gun drawn and say you really mean it this time

When will intel drop the K models make OC a pay-to-unlock feature
Preferably with a warranty void setting

So anyone have any idea what is going on over at Intel? Ryzen hit the market and shook things up. And Intels response to try and get new customers and keep their existing ones is
>RFID chips on the processors
>activation cards to activate features already present on the motherboard
>huge price premium for a high core count, high TDP processor
>this processor not offering ECC out of the box
>and now talk of not offering VT-d

This reads like the wet dream fan fiction of an AMD fanboy. What the hell is going on?

>>60745520
>>and now talk of not offering VT-d
what?
Source?
If intel want to shut themselves out Virtualisation, that's fucking huge, I don't think they understand just how much a name doesn't mean with this shit.

>>60745560
Saw this anon >>60738304 talking about it, and whispers of it from people in the know. I.e. all rumor right now, but if there's talk, there's a reason for it.

>>60745560
Maybe they will offer VT-d, but for a price. Behind one of their activation cards. Just like they intend to do with various raid offerings apparently.

>>60736369
>CPU's clocked way below their physical capabilities.
- perfectly fine and standard practice for decades.

>CPU's clocked way below their physical capabilities, with ability to upgrade them later.
- totally a scam OMG why they do this?????

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>>60736369
>AMD catches up
>Intel responds by jewing harder.
So this is how Intel is going to blow themselves out.

>>60745649
The progression is that AMD catches up, Intel remains staggered, and then Qualcomm announces a desktop line.

>>60745922
>and then Qualcomm announces a desktop line
They're halfway there already.

http://www.samsung.com/us/explore/dex/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/31/15711334/microsoft-windows-10-arm-qualcomm-pcs-asus-hp-lenovo

>>60745520
Its like they are so used to being a monopoly that they can't help fucking over consumers even if they didn't want to. The pay to play raid thing was like a reflex.

>>60736369
>keep all the features that xeons already have
>enterprises start buying i9s for 1/3 of xeons price
They are just being smart.

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>>60746019
They are terrified of their HEDT lineup eating their own lunch in the server room, when what they should really be worried about is Epyc.

>>60746082
>4 dies
just imagine the latency

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>>60746097
Shouldn't be much different from running quad processors, if anything it'd be better.

>>60736369
Pretty sure that's illegal to sell someone hardware and then extort money from them for the ability to use the hardware that they own

>>60746097
They are turning Infinity Fabric up 2:1 for TR and Epyc. They already demonstrated TR at Computex. It scales quite well. https://youtu.be/NeuamYdfU4w?t=16m

>>60746097
Better than 3bingbus + switches abortion, pal.

>>60736385
>turning a shoplifting to aggravated armed robbery
Sounds very American desu.

>>60736385
>getting out of your dungeon
yeah, no.

>>60738237
>people have found ways to unlock the 4th core in tri-core AMDs back in the day.

You mean setting core unlock to yes on your BIOS? because it was that easy.

Nobody will waste their time breaking this shit, you can have better performance for less money with standard PCI-E SSDs.

>>60736567
No.
Motherboard manufacturers pay Intel $100 for the socket, chipset, and to license it. They and the consumer get fucked.

>>60737981
Can't wait to see mobos brick after entering three incorrect Intel(tm) Upgrade Card powercodes!

>>60736369
>Intel Core i9 will be software upgradeable with scratch cards
No, they will be upgradable

>>60738833
It does look like 24core Threadripper is coming in 2018.
It looks like they're moving to 6 cores per CXX, 12 cores per die for Zen2.

On AM4, the 1800X doesn't use 40% of the pins. On Threadripper's socket, over 50% aren't used.

>>60744451

this is truly the end of the times

>inb4 keygen

>>60748466
It's actually a hardware dongle. OP got it wrong. Still won't stop people from trying to crack it or make counterfeits.

>>60736385

What would really be great is if they dont even have to be activated by the register.

Granted intel probably isnt dumb enough to do this, but the chicago subway system is.

>>60748515
This is goy of EXCEPTIONAL quality.

>>60746019
They have margins to keep up, if they go down they will lose their shareholders

>>60748794
well they're certainly going about it the wrong way, especially in light of AMD's recent rousing successes.

How far are we from "download more RAM" not being a meme anymore?

>>60748537
kek

>>60745520
>>and now talk of not offering VT-d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7neGRLjA3I

WHAT
THE
FUCK

>>60749065
Buy our xeons instead, goy!

>>60736480
>stealthily scratch off the code
>write it down
>place back on shelf
>wait for someone to buy
>activate it before the real buyer gets home

>>60749081
who the fuck would buy a card that's already scratched off? not to mention some employee will probably see it and throw it out

>>60746294

This guy knows the truth.

>>60736927
not only that, but the raid is only supported on intel branded SSDs. They're going full assrape with x299

>>60737035
Just a bit of plastic, huh... not aluminum or anything? What a rip.

why did linus have to walk around outside and do the talk
it seemed really awkward to those around him

>>60736385
Why not just like
take the money in the register??

>>60751323
It was like Noir or something. Man, you just don't understand art.

>>60751335
Well that's exactly what they're expecting. Classic misdirection.

>>60751451
It should have been in black and white and linux should have been smoking ciregrets.

>>60736369
So is this "upgrade" permanent, or do I have to repurchase the fucking card every time I reinstall the OS?

>>60751654
just move to amd. is what they want.
don't support this bullshit.

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>>60751654

>mfw subscription based RAID access that locks you out if you don't continue to pay

>don't have enough money to renew your CPU subscription
>PC becomes a door stop

>>60745596
>>60745560
this would make intel not even an option for so many people if this is true, i was planning to get ryzen anyways

>>60752219

Literally ramsonware

>>60749015
PSvita did that though.
I mean download more memory
>http://wololo.net/2015/04/13/ps-vita-firmware-3-50-unlocks-30-more-memory/

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Wait, so you're telling me on top of 2500 or whatever amount of money it takes to have Intel plus motherboard and it doesnt have all functions enabled? This is why Hitler had gas chambers.

>>60752343
It didn't download shit, it just reserves less memory for the OS

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>>60752219
>>60752325

>I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT R&D COSTS MONEY FOR FEATURES MOST PEOPLE DON'T NEED SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT, ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT NEED THOSE FEATURES NEED TO COVER THE COST

>>60752288
>CPU will only work with the lastest Windows at time of release
>CPU will stop working after that Windows mainstream support ends

>>60752377
You still have to download the firmware that frees the reserved memory

>>60752402
It's not adding any memory though, the Vita has 512MiB RAM before and after the update, it just changes how that memory is used.

>>60752386
Pretty sure RAID isn't some amazing new Intel developed technology. They're just trying to protect their server sales.

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This shit would have made some sick, ethically bankrupt sense in 2015, but 2017? With a resurgent, menacing AMD with insanely competitive hardware and pricing scheme? When board manufacturers are openly embracing the new chips? What the fuck is Krzanich on?

>>60752386
>t. retard

give it 3 days and there will be a crack.

>>60752546
>3 days
wow, warez groups have been slacking

>>60736502
>no ddr5
>no pcie 4
>gigabyte didn't have enough to get validated so no thunderbolt 3 on their boards
Just WAIT(tm) till 2020

If we're lucky Intel will finally get put in their place and AMD can use the new income to actually compete with nVidia.

>>60736986
jesus christ you are retarded.. nobody is so stupid to sel a a 16core cpu for 200.. what if nobody wants to unlock all 16 cores.. that wold mean they lost money... they spend time and resources to create a 16 core cpu and they charge the full price for that so they don't lose money.. onlocking is yust a bonus for them...

>>60736769
At this point there is no justifiable to recommend intel anymore unless you're a neckbeard vidya gamer who needs maximum fps on cooowadooty

The 6 core ryzen destroyes the i5 and the unlocked i7 quad core is way to overpriced for the one application that its only 10-15% faster than ryzen in which is games.

Its pants on head retarded to buy an 8 core intel chip over R7 ryzen and if the pricing is similar for thread ripper then none of the i9 intels will make sense either.

In fact the top end i9 doesnt make sense because I know for a fact that aMD has a design codenamed Zepplin which is 32 core and 64-threads which will actually fit in this socket so at any point AMD can just drop that SKU on the market and destroy intel's 18-24 core bullshit.

>>60751323
It's was a very difficult moment for him. For many years Linus was an Intel shill.

i'm retarded, can someone explain how is it possible to upgrade your cpu with a simple code?

>>60754156
The CPU has arbitrary restrictions it lifts when the code is entered

>>60736369
>even intel shills are shitting on intel
intel is so shit now even the intel shills are fed up with it

We will see, how NVIDIA responses.
They already locked non-signed drivers in GeForce 1XXX. It is the first step.
Yes, there will not be Nouveau for anything newer than 9XX series.

>>60754252
nouveau is absolute shit compared to amdgpu though.

>>60736432
so why do they even disable it? just sell it as a 4 core (if its 8 core and 4 of the cores are shit)|?? its still more performance than a 4 core

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>>60752386

>>60748515
AHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH

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>>60744451
>Upgrade key: Premium

>>60736369
wait, did you say software?

>pirate the upgrade instead of buying the upgrade card

problem solved

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>>60736906

>1.764 core voltage

>>60753811
>so at any point AMD can just drop that SKU on the market and destroy intel's 18-24 core bullshit.
They don't really need to. The 18 core scales so badly, even 16 core Threadraper will beat it in most tasks for half the price.

>>60756693
Intel's 18 core would probably cost thrice as much

>>60756737
They already revealed it's price as $2000

>>60756746
16-core non-x threadripper is $850

>>60756762
That's a rumor but I'll believe it when I see it.

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>>60736385
>>60736407
>>60736474
>>60746202
Sounds like some harmless piracy.

>>60756786
I'd pirate a whole PC if I could.

How To Shoot Yourself In The Foot 101

>>60736369
Intel are fucking insane - this might have flown a year ago when people had no real choice, but they actually have competition again now

>>60736744
Good luck suing Intel. Anti-drugs lawsuits are a waste of time, whenever they're close to being over, the defendant has lost stronghold over the market (see IBM, Microsoft)

>>60756794
>>60756786
Don't you meant "steal"? Yes, you do...

Kaby-Lake-X was being developed well before Ryzen was commercially released.

I suspect the real reason behind Kaby-Lake-X is that Skylake-X has serious yielding issues. There's not enough product to satisfy the needs for HEDT market. Kaby Lake silicon is being used to fill in the difference (repackage as Socket 2066) to convince motherboard vendors to produce X299 boards.

Kaby-Lake X was going to be shit no matter what. It is basically the "Celeron" of the HEDT family.

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>>60758021
>It is basically the "Celeron" of the HEDT family.
This is funny and sad at the same time.

Intel's yields are turboshit, meanwhile AMD is enjoying 80% yields on their 8 core dies.

>>60758055

Intel's monolith design is biting them in the arse with these massive 10+ core chips. They are relying too much on their fab tech to compensate.

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>>60758143
Yeah, they had years to come up with something better but decided to fuck around in mobile spaces with their uncompetitive CPUs instead, and got their ass handed to them by ARM CPUs in an actual healthy, competitive market. Now their new arch isn't going to be here until 2021 and who knows if it'll even be any good.

>>60758021
Bullshit.
Kaby Lake-X would have been like every other platofrm.

Intel just rushed some bullshit to market in response to AMD's announcement.

>>60746150
>tfw no Power Processor rig

>>60754363
because they'd either have to downclock all the rest of the cores, or they fucky cores would cause the whole system to be unstable

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>>60758521
>people talking about threadripper's size when pic related exists

>>60736508
they're really jewing people on those PCI lanes, it's like libertarians and muh roads, muh lanes.

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>>60758965
>when your competition violates the NAP by putting more lanes on their product so your carpet bomb their fabs

I thought this shit was a hoax when I opened the thread, I had seen Linus' video yesterday but I never thought about unlocking features with these cards.

Wtf, everything's terrible these days ffs

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Anyone that buys an Intel CPU after this deserves to get hanged.

Prove me wrong faggots.

>>60760088
>deserves to get hanged
>instead of superior tarred and feathered

Proved you wrong.

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>This whole thread

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>>60736369
Just Wait(tm) until I save up enough to unlock my CPU's features then you'll be sorry AMDrones!

>>60736385
>Find a flaw in my plan

Police exists

>>60760626
>when fucking intel becomes the Just Wait brand

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>>60760088
Like so.

>>60754363
Because then they admit they're ripping you off.

The low end and mid tier CPUs only exist because people don't want to spend extra money on the higher cores, and Intel pretends that it costs them less to make those when they're just re-purposing good cores. Upgrade cards make sense because it's the same idea, but far less disingenuous (so people catch on easier and would get mad.)

>>60736432
>AMD did it too with their tri core shit
Except in case of AMD, the disabled core is actually damaged a bit. Core unlocking was a hit or miss. My 2 unlocked cores of B55 has to be downclocked to make it stable.

lmao you can't make this shit up. After reading the whole thread I still can't believe this is real.