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Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs (arstechnica.com)
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[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really don't understand that restriction. Why do it?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Upselling people to their higher end CPUs that still support it

[–] raldone01@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Nvidia was bad about this before the memory shortage. I need loads of VRAM but don't care about millions of cuda cores.