I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Well, my new workplace selected it and paid for it, I just have to use it.

      Personally I’d have gone with the AMD CPU, at home I rock a 5800X3D :)

      Intel’s power consumption is off the charts unfortunately. Those e-cores didn’t help at all.

        • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          6 个月前

          Yep, even “efficiency” cores are a scam. They were forced to go that way because their current process simply can’t support all full cores without drawing 300W+ and taking too much space.

          Cut down E-Cores aren’t even efficient power wise, just space efficient so they could fit them on the die.

          Besides power consumption my trust for Intel is down the gutter with half a dozen security issues. Which were patched with performance degradation. So they fucked up, patched it in software, now your hardware runs slower than when you bought it.