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Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape

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Wilshire@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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If you own an Intel motherboard with a Z170 or Z270 chipset, you might believe that it only supports CPUs up to Intel’s 7th generation, known as Kaby Lake. Even the CPU socket’s pinout …
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    ANTI UPGRADE?? WHAT THE FUCK

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      They’ve been pulling this shit since the early days. Similar tricks were employed in the 486 days to swap out chips, and again in the Celeron days. I think they switched to the slot style intentionally to keep selling chips to a point lol

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        me when capitalism

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            We have open source designs (RISCV also have GPU designs) but we don’t have manufacture power open sourced yet

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