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It's mildly humorous that we're back to damaging CPU's doing basic installation steps like we were with AMD back in the Athlon XP days.
Do these engineers not learn lessons on designing these things?
Edit: I suppose it's always possible to have a dumber consumer too when releasing products...
Repurposed an old desktop and stuck a quad port intel i350 in it. Intel 7700K w/ Z270G STRIX motherboard w/ 32 GB DDR4 something... and a cheap 128 GB NVME.
It can handle anything I throw at it and is extremely stable for being a 2016 - 2017 build, and fairly compact for being mATX.
Edit: and...