Setting their reputation on fire with CPUs that litterally rust from the inside out due to manufacturing contamination didn't help.
Then trying to shove too much voltage to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in CPU degradation multiplied by contamination problems.
Then weird voltage jumps they took ages to fix ( and might not have fully fixed yet ) also damaging the CPUs...
If price to performance was their only problem, Intel could ride its reputation.
But the CPUs just crashing and dying from quick degradation since 13th gen onwards rightfully devastated their reputation and sales.
We're talking high risk ( up to near-certainty depending on what BIOS version you're on ) of your CPU first underperforming, then crashing, then dying, within months for 13th and 14th gens Intel CPUs.
A computer CPU is not supposed to fail. It should become old and obsolete while still performing as intended 10+ years later. I personally never had a computer CPU die on me since I got my first computer ( thankfully didn't buy an Intel CPU after their enshittification ). Intel fucking this up is very hard to move-on from.
I just don't trusts their CPUs. Oh they say the new ones are fine. Does that mean they will die in 4 years instead of 4 months? Not interested.
Setting their reputation on fire with CPUs that litterally rust from the inside out due to manufacturing contamination didn't help.
Then trying to shove too much voltage to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in CPU degradation multiplied by contamination problems.
Then weird voltage jumps they took ages to fix ( and might not have fully fixed yet ) also damaging the CPUs...
If price to performance was their only problem, Intel could ride its reputation.
But the CPUs just crashing and dying from quick degradation since 13th gen onwards rightfully devastated their reputation and sales.
We're talking high risk ( up to near-certainty depending on what BIOS version you're on ) of your CPU first underperforming, then crashing, then dying, within months for 13th and 14th gens Intel CPUs.
A computer CPU is not supposed to fail. It should become old and obsolete while still performing as intended. I personally never had a computer CPU die on me since I got my first computer ( thankfully didn't buy an Intel CPU after their enshittification ). Intel fucking this up is very hard to move-on from.
I just don't trusts their CPUs. Oh they say the new ones are fine. Does that mean they will die in 4 years instead of 4 months? Not interested.
Setting their reputation on fire with CPUs that litterally rust from the inside out due to manufacturing contamination didn't help.
Then trying to shove too much voltage to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in CPU degradation multiplied by contamination problems.
Then weird voltage jumps they took ages to fix ( and might not have fully fixed yet ) also damaging the CPUs...
If price to performance was their only problem, Intel could ride its reputation.
But the CPUs just crashing and dying from quick degradation since 13th gen onwards rightfully devastated their reputation and sales.
We're talking high risk ( up to near-certainty depending on what BIOS version you're on ) of your CPU first underperforming, then crashing, then dying, within months for 13th and 14th gens Intel CPUs.
I personally never had a computer CPU die on me since I got my first computer ( thankfully didn't buy an Intel CPU after their enshittification ). Intel fucking this up is very hard to move-on from.
I just don't trusts their CPUs. Oh they say the new ones are fine. Does that mean they will die in 4 years instead of 4 months? Not interested.