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by paulmd 2y ago
(ps: my other favorite thing about that chart is the frametimes getting worse as processor frequency increases. The 8600k and 9600k are literally the exact same silicon, same cache, same core count. So a pair of processors both lost f
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by paulmd 2y ago
Prime95 also completely ignores the high-clock domain btw so it can also be completely prime95 stable yet fail completely on a routine task that boosts up! So it’s technically not even a full test of core stability either.
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by paulmd 2y ago
You’re not reading it wrong, that’s really what they’re asserting. GN is saying that it is an active problem resulting in the failures. GN is sometimes really good and sometimes really bad. They do tons of great data-driven benchmarking and
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by paulmd 2y ago
honestly quite probably, in a sense - they definitely seem to be trying to make a clean break in some ways. they don't really want "kernel-mode printer drivers, but with arm". and yeah they definitely seem to be viewing that
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by paulmd 2y ago
...and puma and i-225V chipsets. or at least... maybe on the CPU side they were no-drama. Other than C2000/C3000. Granted the powervr graphics on the atoms way back did suck... and meltdown... and avx-512 being rolled back... /
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yeah I think that’s the bright spot, now that there’s a branded offering for server-flavored Ryzen now maybe there is a permanent justification for doing proper validation. I just feel vindicated lol, it always comes up that “well works fin
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by paulmd 2y ago
Ok, I take it back, this looks pretty indicative of a low-load problem and evidently failure rates are much higher in that scenario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYfBxmBfq7k
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by paulmd 2y ago
Specifically I think the concerns are around idle voltage and overshoot at this point, which is indeed something configured by OEMs. edit: BZ just put out a video talking about running Minecraft servers destroying CPUs reliably, topping out
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by paulmd 2y ago
it’s also a terrible stability test these days for the same reasons Wendell talks about with cinebench in his video with Ian (and Ian agrees too). Doesn’t work like 90% of the chip - it’s purely a cache/avx benchmark. You can have a co
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by paulmd 2y ago
they did that too https://youtu.be/wkrOYfmXhIc
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by paulmd 2y ago
Alderon are the people claiming 100% of units fail which doesn’t seem supported by anyone else either. Wendell and GN seem to have scoped the issue to around 10-25% across multiple different sources. Like they are the most extreme claimants
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by paulmd 2y ago
yeah wendell put out a video a few weeks ago exploring a bunch of problems with asrock rack-branded server-market B650 motherboards and basically the ECC situation was exactly what everyone warns about: the various BIOS versions wandered be
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Remains to be seen how the microcode patch affects performance intel is claiming 4% performance hit on the final patch https://youtu.be/wkrOYfmXhIc?t=308
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by paulmd 2y ago
wendell level1techs has been talking about how microsoft is specifically moving away from it in Windows on ARM (to some real short-term pain, in fact) so it seems self-serving to assert that they somehow cannot do it because of the EU. if
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by paulmd 2y ago
For years (most recently 2021) Nokia’s threat assessment reports have android malware infection rates at over 50x iOS. iOS malware exists but it’s largely state-level actors going after dissidents or journalists (and apple provides tools to
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by paulmd 2y ago
yes, even W680 can override power and thermal limits, voltage, current excursion protection, etc. Everything except clock multiplier. https://youtu.be/5KHCLBqRrnY?t=2694 that is part of the problem, W680 is not the same th
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by paulmd 2y ago
that's just alderon_matt's assertion. wendell and GN have triaged this to approximately 10-25% of units, seems pretty consistent acros a whole bunch of different environments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTeub
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by paulmd 2y ago
No, intel has said nothing at all (that’s part of the problem) and 10-25% are the numbers from Wendell and GN who have been investigating the issue in various companies’ prod environments and event logs. https://www.youtube.com&#
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by paulmd 2y ago
I think there’s a real concern Xeon e-2400 may be failing at this point too. It's an open question if Emerald Rapids might have the same issues (and EMR has mesh, not ring, so this is an interesting question as to diagnosing the cause
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by paulmd 2y ago
yep this is why cracking open ios was a mistake, especially for the android crowd who’d never be caught dead owning an iPhone anyway. there was barely a slope to begin with, you’ve got chrome in a majority and safari in a minority and the
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by paulmd 2y ago
my guy, people are too flawed, ignorant, and tribal to select a cellular telephone, let alone participate in society
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, definitely. This is the reason the summary box is telling you to eat glue - that’s what the top search results say, and the LLM dutifully summarizes. Google has fucked up search so badly it is fucking up their AI ambitions. Very karmic
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by paulmd 2y ago
To be blunt, most of the stuff that android advocates on social media are excited about is actually just marketing ploys from google. Example: Google is not any more of a true believer in RCS than anyone else, they literally won’t even bo
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by paulmd 2y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-...
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by paulmd 2y ago
Like if only there were some word for the process of using language to reshape the discourse, by redefining words to include the aspects you want and exclude the ones you don’t. One might argue that without the words to express it, people’s
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by paulmd 2y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-insurance-crisis-explained-...
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by paulmd 2y ago
No, I find the vendor deliberately self-destructing the firmware to be more user-hostile than having to set up altstore once. It is something that shouldn’t even be required in the first place, the android support model is incredibly user-h
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by paulmd 2y ago
Sure, but it’s expensive and it’s still devastated by storms etc. Like these building techniques works so well that insurers have left the Florida market because it’s unprofitable to rebuild everyone every couple years, so the state outla
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by paulmd 2y ago
In the vein of “this is what people considered ‘comically fat’ as the punchline of a joke when the Simpsons started running”, it’s funny to look back at the “Toby ruins everything” video and look at what Aaron Sorkin considered “comically d
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by paulmd 2y ago
Nobody wants a high-end android cameraphone where the camera firmware self-destructs when you unlock the bootloader. For better or for worse, the android world is reliant on custom roms if you want long-term software support. Wiping the cam

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