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karmapopsicle1284 karma

Is the online income source you've created based around posting content about your journeys, or something entirely separate?

karmapopsicle116 karma

Intel's socket changes are because of the architecture and designed advancements they're making that AMD is just straight up lagging behind in.

As each generation advances (in the tick-tock pairs), they continue to integrated more and more components that would normally be found on the motherboard into the CPU dies themselves. Sandy Bridge eliminated the Northbridge, integrating all of that functionality into the die, giving them more fine-grained control over everything.

Then with Haswell we've even got the last-stage voltage regulator system integrated right on die, which is what helps enable such very high efficiency levels, especially in the mobile space.

tl;dr It's not Intel changing sockets for profit (it's the board makers who'd actually be reaping most of that money anyway), but for the advancement of the platform.

karmapopsicle12 karma

Vista's biggest problem wasn't itself, but lazy hardware and software companies releasing buggy drivers and such. 18% of crashes were Microsoft-caused, but Nvidia alone was responsible for almost 30% of the crashes, plus about 9 each for (at the time) ATI and Intel. Those are the stats from 2007, or Vista's first year on the market.

It was a huge transition for Windows, so it was bound to have issues, but the massive amount of crashes caused by third parties caused the reputation of the OS to suffer massively, alongside OEMs selling hardware with it that didn't actually meet the memory and graphics requirements.

karmapopsicle11 karma

The same kind of niche that goes out and buys an iMac. Not the same niche, but that type of niche.

karmapopsicle8 karma

One of the big theories as to why Nvidia released the stop-gap 700-series is that sales of the 600 series were falling way, way behind. With AMD offering better performance for the same or less money, plus large game bundles, more and more were switching over.

It's anyone's guess what AMD will do to compete with the value these refreshed cards are bringing to the table.