Subj : Re: Intel's potential exit from advanced manufacturing
To   : Accession
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jul 31 2025 16:14:05

  Re: Re: Intel's potential exit from advanced manufacturing
  By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Jul 31 2025 05:33 pm

 Ac> I'm sure it has always been a "do so at your own risk" thing, but they
 Ac> never shyed away from touting how overclockable their chips were. Some
 Ac> BIOSs even had settings to auto-overclock safely. As a matter of fact, my
 Ac> last build which is still running is an Asus motherboard, and was
 Ac> overclocked by CyberpowerPC before they even sent it to me. My current
 Ac> build is a Gigabyte Auros motherboard, and has 3 or 4 settings to
 Ac> overclock. You don't have to mess with the voltage or anything yourself.
 Ac> You just select which setting you wish to overclock at, anywhere from a
 Ac> mild overclock that shouldn't mess with your temps at all, to an extreme
 Ac> one that you would probably need full on liquid cooling for.

Yeah, I had heard about some success stories with people overclocking their Intel CPUs.  I haven't overclocked one of my PCs in a long time though.  I think the last time I overclocked a PC may have been in the mid-90s when I had an AMD 5x86-133 (which was really a 486DX4-133). I had heard it could safely be overclocked to 160mhz by bumping the bus speed up from 33mhz to 40mhz. I did that and it ran fine at 160mhz.  Several years later, I had an AMD Athlon CPU which I think I tried to overclock but I don't remember for sure now.

 Ac> I had decided not to overclock the i9-9900k, though. And it still has
 Ac> enough power for anything I throw at it.

Yeah, I'm still using an i9-9900k in my main PC, and I haven't overclocked it. I have a liquid CPU cooler in it, and I was thinking that would be good in case I wanted to overclock it, but I feel likt it has been fast enough for anything I throw at it.  I'm okay with the video transcodings I run on it, and it also runs Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 pretty well (my graphics card is an Nvidia RTX 3080 TI, which helps).

 Ac> They became a giant, gouged their prices, then probably started using
 Ac> shitty parts, had to hit deadlines so they rushed these more recent chips
 Ac> out the door in order to say they did it, and now they're paying the
 Ac> price.

Yeah..  Also I think they've made some arguably bad decisions and haven't been managed very well.  I heard that before Apple released the iPhone, Apple asked Intel if they wanted to make the CPUs for the iPhone, but Intel decided not to. Also, it seems Intel hasn't developed any strong AI technology to compete with Nvidia and others.  That and with their CPU manufacturing difficulties, it seems Intel has generally fallen behind AMD, ARM, and other competitors.

Nightfox
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