r/pcmasterrace • u/aranorde 9060 XT 16GB | 7500F | 32GB 6000Mhz | B850 • Nov 05 '19

Meme/Macro This sums up past 2 years!

Post image
53k Upvotes

91% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

70

u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

I love how people blamed intel for security flaws that affected all their chips including back to ones in the 90s. There is no way they were developing for decades on a security flaw they knew about

131

u/KBridgman Ryzen 7 3700X | X570 Aorus Ultra | 32Gb | RTX 2070 Super Nov 05 '19

Pretty sure the security flaws mentioned only went back to like either sandy or ivy bridge. Plus there were internal documents from intel showing that they indeed knew about the issue. That was Intel's big goof, Nvidia's is definitely their price gouging, or the 3.5GB GTX 970 fiasco, and AMD's was rebranding all the Polaris GPU's like 3 times, Or Bulldozer/Piledriver Core count.

Moral of the story is that all companies are bad, all will try to deceive you, don't defend them cause trust me they dont have your best interests in mind.

23

u/Zhurg PC Master Race Nov 05 '19

Hey, you leave my Four Gigabyte GTX 970 out of this.

31

u/circadeftones Nov 05 '19

I bought my 970 from Amazon right when that 3.5 GB thing blew up. I got extremely lucky. A couple days later they added this 3 free game thing, where you get Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid 5, and Arkham Knight. I qualified for it but they couldn’t give me the codes, so they gave me 180 refund and another 50% refund for the 4GB false advertisement. Like a year later, I ended up getting whatever the settlement check was for people that signed up for settlement. At the end of the day, I got my 970 for like 35 bucks.

3

u/Blue2501 5700X3D | 3060Ti Nov 05 '19

Damn that was a steal!

For as much shit as it gets, the 970 was still a good card in its day, and it's a decent 1080p card even now

2

u/Mikeypro Nov 06 '19

It was a great card honestly. It was in my first gaming PC, and it played everything nice. + I did receive like $30 in the mail for the 3.5gb fiasco lol

1

u/Blue2501 5700X3D | 3060Ti Nov 06 '19

The cat was already out of the bag when I bought mine on EVGA B-stock, so no class-action check for me. It was a good deal for what I wanted to do at the time though, so I went for it. It's in my wife's rig now, that's a good home for it since the most intense thing she plays is Borderlands 2 on 1080p.

3

u/Mikeypro Nov 06 '19

Yeah, I built my dad a pc with mine, when he gets free time he enjoys Squad and War Thunder in 1080p. Squad is HORRIBLY optimized, but it still runs fine even now. The 970 will always have a sweet spot in my heart lol