Syryquil

Very good point I hadn't thought of.

The problem is those top 3% chips, of which there were 8 IIRC.

He's not comparing to random people though. He uses the silliconlottery actual data. This is pretty obvious you didn't watch.

Silliconlotterys database is 1000s

While not a smoking gun, the barrel is definitely hot. Linus made a video on this topic, but only used a sample size of two. This uses a sample size of thousands, using the data gathered by Silliconlottery and the overclock results by reviewers. It shows that all cpus were at least Above average, and many were in the top 3% of all cpus. Take this as you will, but it seems like almost proof.

I have an adblocker and minerblock

Now their website doesn't have amd stuff unless you pick a specific card. Originally discovered thanks to:

This seems really low.

I've got a weird one for you guys. I built a PC right at the end of last year, and it's been a kinda bumpy road. I have a weird issue with restarts. Sometimes when I restart, my 1080p 144hz monitor gets set down to 480p or 768p, and didn't recognize the right refresh rate options. It seems to happen completely randomly. The first time it happened, I was overclocking my CPU, but I've had it set to stock (I even reset my CMOS) and nothing fixed it. Nothing at all is overclocked. I ran 2 passes of Memtest and no errors. The only way to fix it is to leave my computer off for a few minutes. Sometimes my PC used to not boot at all on restart, but it hasn't happened recently. I'm not sure if that has been fixed or not/ 2 photos are attached. My OS is unactivated Windows 10 64 bit My specs are 1060 6gb EVGA SC Ryzen 3 1200 Gigabyte GA-AB350 updated to the latest BIOS version f10 Seasonic M12II EVO 520w 1x8gb G.Skill Aegis 3000mhz ram (running at 2133) Stock cooler (no temp problems though) 250gb 850 EVO as boot drive Seagate 2tb hard drive

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/business/computer-flaws.html Previously we only knew about meltdown, a bug affecting only Intel CPUs. Google has now told us about Spectre, which affects all CPUs, such as Intel, ARM and AMD. Meltdown can be patched, with the performance hit (which has been found to be about 3% in games; 5% in DX12 gamesSource), but Spectre has no know patch. Spectre is harder to exploit though. Link to more in depth info from google: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

Almost bought an i3 8100. Glad I didn't.

AMD pricing versus Intel pricing.