| NJ5 said: There is one rather stupid thing and one rather scary/disturbing thing about these new CPUs (correct me if I'm wrong): - stupid thing: the highest-end, overclockable Sandy Bridge CPUs have substantially better integrated graphics hardware, occupying a large portion of the chip as the picture in the OP shows. But the people who want to buy these highest-end chips are the ones who will rarely use the integrated graphics, obviously they will buy a good standalone graphics card instead. This looks like a waste of transistors and die area in these models. - scary/disturbing thing: these CPUs can be remotely switched off by Intel: http://www.techspot.com/news/41643-intels-sandy-bridge-processors-have-a-remote-kill-switch.html The second one by itself is enough to make me very wary of buying one. |
That's only possible if your computer has access to a 3G network though. The signal is sent through 3G, but the CPU can't receive the message without a 3G network card in the PC.
EDIT: Actually, the signal be received through both LAN, WLAN and 3G. I guess we're not safe after all.
And yeah, the integrated graphics situation is pretty stupid. I'd take a lower price on the CPU any day over lower integrated graphics performance in the kind of rig these CPUs belong in.
