Intel wants to charge $50 to unlock stuff your CPU can already do

[Squilliam]

Zlejedi said:

Squilliam said:

NJ5 said:

It's not the same thing as paid DLC which is already on the disc, since in that case you are paying for the development of the DLC (putting it on the disc or not doesn't increase the costs).

In this case, the real cost is in manufacturing the hardware, which means part of the chip you buy is wasted even though it's working perfectly well.

It just all seems a bit dodgy and cheap from Intel's part, I don't really like it.

They have always disabled parts of chips when they have worked. The difference here is you can pay to unlock them.

This. I wonder if all those people bitching about this realize that for example all the Pentium G and i3 5x0 as well as i5 6x0 cpu are coming from same line and are diffrent only by bins and/or multiplier that was applied to them.

Imho that's very good idea to save people time and effort when upgrading.

Yeah its a pretty good idea. You just have to realise what you're already buying before you know the real repurcussions (spelling?) of this.