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https://www.pcworld.com/article/325...-with-motherboard-updates-for-ryzen-apus.html
GO AMD GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
GO AMD GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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from what I have read, you have to ship the processor back to AMD once you are done? Any confirmation on that? Haven't seen any concrete info on that.
You ship the chip back, but not the cooler. The chip if I recall correctly is the slowest dual core they offer. Basically good for just this job and nothing else at this point.from what I have read, you have to ship the processor back to AMD once you are done? Any confirmation on that? Haven't seen any concrete info on that.
yes as stated in the other thread aboot this, you get a chip and hsf, use it to update and ship just the chip back. no hsf return saves them shipping.from what I have read, you have to ship the processor back to AMD once you are done? Any confirmation on that? Haven't seen any concrete info on that.
yes as stated in the other thread aboot this, you get a chip and hsf, use it to update and ship just the chip back. no hsf return saves them shipping.
im assuming its gonna be the cheapest pos alu block they can find in the rma bin
Good on AMD, that's customer service!
I am sure they are good cpu. Why take the risk sending them a dud cpu that could cause you to brick your MB? Too much of a risk and headache for them to deal with.pretty much an honor system but i'm sure they'll be paying close attention to fleabay or amazon if all of a sudden a bunch of their processors start showing up there. also wouldn't surprise me if they were unstable processors but good enough to at least boot up to update the bios..
Depending on stock (currently OOS), Newegg had the 35W dual-core for $60 the other day. [through antonline]It's mostly because AMD charges out-the-ass for their dual-cores, even though they get raped by Intel in everything except games.
Intel Celerons start at $40. Bristol Ridge starts at $65. That's a much higher price to acquire a backup core.
Maybe you're now on the "honor system" because you have a new Ryzen, and it knows where you live, your passwords, etc.??
(I'm just suspicious whenever a company "loses its mind" and offers up something to good to be true)
(or maybe, they've just "lost their mind".... memories of AMD around 2005-ish, when they shot themselves in the head, but apparently not a fatal shot.)
while offering chips is new, amd's done other similar things like when they had they had the issue with cpu's crashing during high computational loads(just woke up so i can't remember what people were calling it) AMD was shipping the new processor first before requiring you to send in the old one so that you weren't cpu-less for a week but people abused the hell out of the system so they were forced to go back to the old way of you having to send your processor first before they would send you a new one.