The Official AMD shares thread

[northernladuk]

So it begins...

DragonFlyBSD Replacing Their 48-Core Opteron Infrastructure With Ryzen 9 3900X CPUs - Phoronix

Or maybe not...

[AtW]

33.14 USD −0.88 (2.60%)

[scooterscot]

Their processors are jus no reliable. Why would you exchange years of known reliability for a Boeing like company looking to cut corners in order to boost its share price for greedy investors?

[AtW]

Their processors are jus no reliable. Why would you exchange years of known reliability for a Boeing like company looking to cut corners in order to boost its share price for greedy investors?

What is your evidence for processors in general being unreliable?

[scooterscot]

What is your evidence for processors in general being unreliable?

Overclocking. If you have to overclock to get performance you've failed at the first post.

[NigelJK]

That's a falicy. Both intel and AMD push their processors as far as they dare without compromising reliability. Overclocking is the same as getting your motor chipped.

[NotAllThere]

Both AMD and Intel offer processors designed to be overclocked - e.g. for gamers using high end coolers.

[BR14]

That's a falicy. Both intel and AMD push their processors as far as they dare without compromising reliability. Overclocking is the same as getting your motor chipped.

fallacy

Both AMD and Intel offer processors designed to be overclocked - e.g. for bitcoin miners using high end coolers.

ftfy

[AtW]

Both AMD and Intel offer processors designed to be overclocked - e.g. for gamers using high end coolers.

In other news - Pooper is an IT-illiterate person...

[northernladuk]

Both AMD and Intel offer processors designed to be overclocked - e.g. for gamers using high end coolers.

I don't quite think they are 'designed' to be overclocked per se. They are designed to meet a minimum criteria and that criteria is highest level they can absolutely guarantee. Like anything such as safe levels of drugs, best before dates and the like, safe weight limits etc. It's a decided threshold rather than an absolute maximum. In many cases the thresholds are much much lower than the possible for differing reasons.