uLoop
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I think if there ever was an appropriate moment for Linus to follow in the footsteps of another famous Linus, this is it. Just replace Nvidia with Apple and reenact this epic scene: Nvidia, fuck you
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I see no indication that they ship it with Coreboot and take efforts to neuter and disable Intel ME, like the Librem folks are starting to do with their laptops. So...check your threat model I guess?
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This would have been the perfect video for a TunnelBearrr ad placement. Where we arrr going we dont need DRM. Also, less geo-blocking if you insist on paying for loosing control over your computer and having to deal with BS.
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The thing is, out-of-production but desirable motherboards tend to become quite scarce and expensive on the used market as time goes on. Buying a decent Z87/Z97 board will be difficult in 2018 but compatible CPUs and coolers will still be plentiful.
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Well, if you are poor, you only get poor choices
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Not counting an upgrade path when buying a low end CPU is a poor choice.
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As Linus have said CPUs greatly outlast motherboards in almost all cases. If someone buys a H81 board, and wants to upgrade to a 4790k a few years later, they will have a lot harder time finding a decent Z87/Z97 board, than finding a 4790k or 4770k or comparable CPUs. Its always the motherboards that become a limiting factor when shopping for used parts. Look at the X58 platform right now, plenty of cheap 4 and 6 core CPUs floating around, but really hard to get a motherboard for them. Pretty much the same goes for Sandy Bridge.
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True, but that is still the minority, and you can get some of them to work with a bit of tweaking (Farcry4). Also some do not support dualcores officially, but still work regardless. Even Dragon Age Inquisition, which was notorious for not running at all on dualcores, has been fixed, and runs acceptably well. Also, some games still have poor multithreading, and the Pentium@4,5Ghz should demolish any i3 in those cases, for very little money.
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BTW if you want bang for buck, just go with a Z97 motherboard and a Pentium G3258 and overclock the snot out of it, you wont even need a good cooler. Also, you gonna have a great upgrade path by buying an used 4790k, and a good cooler.
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Yes, the Xeons from that era should be compatible. You should be able to get at least 6 cores, and also you can overclock those xeons via base clock.
