So you mean to tell me they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture but chose not to because they knew people would pay for the shiny new toys.
There’s a chip crisis and SUDDENLY!!! We’re all able to use new technologies on old computer architectures…
Call it supply and demand but I think that’s fucked up nm which way you look at it.
I read that and then immediately thought to myself, so they just chose not to release upgrades for old architectures and speed released a shit load of new hardware they knew people would pay OTA for.
This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…
It’s almost like planned obsolescence is a well document and viable business strategy.
Lightbulb moment
For…40 years? Demand for older consumer CPUs has dropped to zero over a few years because the new ones are demonstrably more capable and basically the same price. That’s the whole idea behind Moore’s Law. There are niche applications where that hasn’t been true that were mostly filled by recycled hardware or single board computers. But in general people want the more capable device.
There’s a whole conversation to be had about software bloat that that chain enabled but planned obsolescence it ain’t.
I think a really good ‘for instance’ of what we are talking about is the Pentium Overdrive released in the early-mid 90s. It was a Pentium class processor designed to fit the 486 (previous generation, also where the Pent part of Pentium came from) socket. They have never not been able to backport new instruction sets they just don’t and now we have even more evidence of that.
The old hardware still works perfectly fine though
These are only “new” chips in a marketing sense.
From a tech standpoint, they’re more or less the same chips that Intel was making for LGA1700 3-4 years ago refreshed with a new name and model number. They may have slight tweaks to the clocks and the core configs, but other than that there’s really nothing new about them. It’s the same silicon that Intel launched back in 2022.
The only reason Intel is doing this is because LGA1700 supports DDR4 and that’s kept the demand for it alive with how expensive DDR5 is now.
Some of those chips have new configurations and power demands. There’s now a 8+12 that is 65w, and the substitute for the 14600K is a 8+8.
I currently have a 13700K, but if one of those new CPUs have a 8+12 version that’s better than the 14700K and doesn’t turn into a literal furnace I’ll be interested in getting one.
It’s all been over blown hype for sometime now. PCI 3 vs 4 vs 5 doesn’t seem to justify the higher prices https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-pcie-50-vs-40-vs-30-x16-scaling-benchmarks#overview-and-differences
My last major “whoa” moment was switching from disk to solid state. Otherwise most upgrades feel like they are marginal improvements for the last decade.
Since I was a wee lad, when the internet was just an idea, to this day, it’s the first time that “innovation” doesn’t go “higher, further, faster!” But the opposite…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve gotten sadly accustomed to tech “innovation” being more about novel ways of squeezing money out of people way more often than “higher, further, faster” or anything that makes our lives easier, more interesting, or more enjoyable.
Hence i said “innovation”… It was rarely really an innovation. And the more recent, the more your description fits.
Sadly so, I might add.
crapitalism breeds innovation…
AI is causing human regression. That’s what this is.
Is one thing to poison the minds of idiots, but this is technological regression.
Things are getting bad.
i would say it’s causing a capitalism growth spurt which is “too fast” for the owning class to really keep up, especially with more and more working class realizing capitalism is the problem, not ai, chips, socket types…
i am hoping this growth will be what will cause its downfall.
Humans are causing human regression. The tool is different, the pattern is the same.
Turns out new sockets were just to rip you off.
Yeah. Cannon vs Nikon was a great example.
I mean AMD has been able to reuse sockets for multiple generations of actual new cpus. Intel has just never done it that way.
Y’all got somma that DDR3?
I got a bunch laying about for one reason or another. Sadly, it’s all laptop RAM.
I mean, not sadly for me, as I have a fetish for micro PCs, and guess what…
I literally just bought some recently for an old board.
Lol remember when they software locked LGA1511 to prevent 8th and 9th gen CPUs from working on existing 6th/7th gen motherboards, and then the modding community bypassed it with some BIOS mods and Teflon tape.
This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…
This isn’t anything new in the component industry. Nvidia is even more guilty of this with their RTX ray tracing scam which now looks comically small next to their subsequent AI bubble.
I’ve personally preferred AMD for this reason because they actually thought ahead of Intel on several occasions like x64, multicore processors, more efficient laptop CPU power consumption, actually funding next gen hardware specs, etc.
In my eyes, the last time Intel was even “on top” of AMD was the skylake overclock era where single thread performance was still sought after heavily.
Hilariously though my servers are all Intel xeons because of their sheer production volume making used parts much cheaper than AMD.
I heard there’s a new board with new architecture which works with DDR3!
If they make a mobo that’ll take at least 64gb of DDR3, and an architecture that’ll use it, I’m interested.
If someone made a board with like 8 slots for ddr3 and a socket for a decent cpu, it would sell like hotcakes. Basically free ram.
I did some digging and couldn’t find anything.
If I’m recreating the youtube video in my mind, I think they’d gone shopping on the streets of Singapore… I did find articles saying China was building DDR3 boards, so maybe you could take a flight out there for the difference in RAM prices and come out even.
Found a few on Aliexpress. Four ram slots, but up to 128GB for some. (unless the seller lied)
Plenty of old hardware still around for that. Might need to look at server boards if consumer boards didn’t support that much.
Memory controllers used to be on the motherboards. So your motherboard would determine the type of RAM you used.
As you may know the something called the chipset these days they used to be called south bridges and we had a north bridge. And the North bridge had things like Memory Controller and other IO stuff. South Bridge hasn’t changed much in terms of what it does. More IO.
It’s basically like cache tiers. The closer you are to the CPU the faster you can be.
I thought North and south bridges still existed. That architecture stopped in 2008… Wtf
I’m so glad I didn’t listen to people online about staying on the “dead” AM4 socket for my rig upgrade two years ago. My 5800X3D might end up being the best value purchase I’ve ever made…
they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture
I’ve heard that it’s also possible to make consumer motherboards with ECC RAM and no built-in wifi as well, but surely someone would’ve tried that by now if is was technologically possible.
Maybe the RISC-V RVA23 push will be able to figure it out.
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I wasn’t aware of any for consumer level chips. All I really want is a basic motherboard+processor with ECC RAM and solid electronics with good capacitors and power filters like the manufacturers seem to be doing for the high end gaming rigs, but without a lot of bells and whistles that need to be turned off as part of the “new computer” process.
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I stand corrected.
Time to sell my old DDR4 sticks I guess.
Dibs!
Feel like it’s more “when designing an upgrade you do it all at once not piecemeal” so it never made sense to use old tech before because you’ll just cause a bottleneck.
Even though I still feel like using “the fastest” ram used to just end up giving you more problems and crashes…
