Twenty-seven years later, and it is still all about the Pentiums.

The Pentium became Intel's budget processor when the Core architecture came out. When the i7s, i5s, and i3s are tested and binned, the dies that are still fully functional but didn't quite muster i3 levels (only 1 or 2 cores work, some of the cache is defective, only works at lower power levels/clock speeds, etc) are binned as Pentiums.

The leftovers that aren't completely scrap are stamped as Celerons and Atoms.

I've grossly oversimplified it, but that's the general idea.

They have to be talking about the Pentium Gold line, G7400 and such. It does sound silly though.

my guess is that he used heat gun, thermal pastes, and cleanly succeasfully swapped 40 PCs with matching parts without damaging any. This guy is a repair technician not customs supervisor

They've always been the same socket/silicon for the past 15-20 years. Just far FAR inferiorsince they're clocked down and don't have the full cache.

socket 1700 supports both alder lake (12th gen) and raptor lake (13th, refresh 14th gen) intel processors.

12th gen had low-end processors branded 'pentium', all three gens had the usual i3/i5/i7 (it was the next gen after this that rebranded intel's cpu lineup). the 14th gen low-end chip was rebranded without the 'pentium' trademark.

the same chipset and firmware quite often supported all three generations of cpu, enabling the easy cpu swap from 14th gen core i7 to 12th gen pentium.

Apparently not that decent, because they were already caught

So if you buy a used i7 processor from Newegg, there's a non-zero chance that who knows what went through it

Just 1, but it has 128 GB of RAM

Collapsing empires express a lot of similar symptoms

More and more it feels like the USA didn’t win the Cold War, the USSR just lost first

Only one CPU, but 64gb of ram, so a win overall.

I miss snus, hard to find around here since it didn't take off.

???? The amount is gonna be 100k because they have to buy the components and see if the damage has been compromised for the software. That shit adds up expeditiously.

Pre-builts are cheaper than single components but they only had the contact for the computers and technically they still have the cases, maybe motherboards too, so they'd be over strength if they bought more prebuilts. So now they have to go off economy if they want to get those computers working again or deal with the hassle of turning in the old equipment, waiting for it to fall off the books and then ordering "new" equipment but during that time people wouldn't be working so you might spend 80k to avoid spending 1M in salaries to avoid waiting to spend 20k.

$20k worth of hardware last month would cost around $100k this month

Have you seen the cost of computer components recently?

Their cut.

Yeah but you gotta pay kick a percentage up to the boss. This guy got busted, so I guess he didn't do that.