Subj : Re: Intel: Once mighty, now f
To   : Cougar428
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Tue May 20 2025 06:56 am

-=> Cougar428 wrote to ARELOR <=-

Ar> I don't buy it. We are already giving the IT industry too much leeway
Ar> to produce crappy products. Let them own their failures.

Co>  I would be happy to let them own their failure, like I said AMD chips
Co>  operated at such a high frequency to one up the competition that they
Co>  did actually catch fire. I guess if you never had it happen to you,
Co>  you would not appreciate the chaos.

I supported Dell systems for a bunch of years. We started seeing
failures with video failures on one model of laptop. Turned out the
system put out enough heat to make a video component on the motherboard
fail. Dell's solution, rather than re-engineering the existing
motherboards and sending replacements, was to put our a BIOS update
that set the fan blowing at a much higher (and more annoying) speed. We
were large enough that they sent us a shipment of replacement systems
with re-engineered motherboards to swap some of them out, but we still
had a lot of systems blowing hot air.

Those were bad times for Dell customers. About the same time, Dell
Optiplexes began popping capacitors because of heat buildup. They got
really good at swapping out motherboards.



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