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I Bought Intel’s Upcoming CPU on Chinese Craigslist

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Linus tries to get Intel 12th Gen early by buying an Engineering Sample CPU off China's version of Craigslist....But will the motherboards play nice?

 

 

 

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Just now, James said:

But will the motherboards play nice?

 

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The motherboards:

 

 

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29 minutes ago, James said:

But will the motherboards play nice?

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The motherboards:

<booting>

<booting to Windows 10>

<Windows 10 BSODs>

<after restart, MB doesn't POST>

instant brick

 

 

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41 minutes ago, poochyena said:

well that was a waste of 10 minutes

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. I don't know what the point of this video even was. 

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This was some serious hard troll, especially being less than 12hrs away from official launch videos.. 

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3 hours ago, James said:

Linus tries to get Intel 12th Gen early by buying an Engineering Sample CPU off China's version of Craigslist....But will the motherboards play nice?

 

 

 

You have to use a motherboard like gigabyte z690 with F3/F2/F1 bios from other(russian/chinese) forums.

I followed these things at 8.gen launch, and this thing was solved in 1-2 days.

I give it 70% chance.

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You know what? This video is going to make me think twice about these kinds of videos from Linus. I have loved this series when the title says that you got scammed, but ended up with a working piece, just a different model. But, this one, just a waste of time. 

 

Sorry dude. Not a good look.

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I think it's a nice little insight into the risk of buying engineering samples. I think it's one of the better recent videos.

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8 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. I don't know what the point of this video even was. 

The point probably was to circumvent parts of the NDA, and be able to talk about the new processor and its features, show off a motherboard, without technically breaking the NDA. Release the video half a day ahead of the actual embargo time, and you get more views and traffic than at the correct time, when you're competing with a dozen or so other channels. LTT will obviously post a proper review video then, but this ekes out a fair few views more.

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Seeing you hold that motherboard with one hand without stripping it to your hand.. Brr... 3:34

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