The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March, and after reading through the reviews of Intel CPUs on my electronics store of choice, many of which (!) mention CPU replacements, I am getting the impression that Intel’s current CPUs just are not stable 😞. Therefore, I am giving up on Intel for the coming years and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D CPU instead.
"Do you need to transcode video?
Then leave Intel the fuck alone."
Been my rule for 20 years, and it’s worked good so far.
I transcode video with nvenc, I don’t need Intel
Can nvenc do dual pass encodings these days?
It’s odd, their GPUs are doing fine, a market they are young in, but their well established CPU market is cratering
Business majors suck.
Sure, if by doing fine you mean looking alright in benchmarks while having zero supply because they don’t make money selling them and thus don’t want to produce them in any significant amount.
They are in stock near me.
Their GPU situation is weird. The gaming GPUs are good value, but I can’t imagine Intel makes much money from them due to the relatively low volume yet relatively large die size compared to competitors (B580 has a die nearly the size of a 4070 despite being competing with the 4060). Plus they don’t have a major foothold in the professional or compute markets.
I do hope they keep pushing in this area still, since some serious competition for NVIDIA would be great.
they always did, even back in college.
yeah quicksync is the only reason i put an intel in my NAS.