We owe you an explanation...

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CPUs, GPUs, laptops, Macs- everything has a failure rate. Our AMD Ryzen 7950X3D was the victim of the silicon lottery. But there’s more to the story than mere benchmark numbers…

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY
iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712
Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI
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Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana

Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:25 Our original data
3:37 AMD's response
3:58 Did we get a bad chip?
7:05 We got a replacement CPU
9:47 Verifying the new chip is good
10:17 Was the New CPU better?
11:30 2 ways AMD screwed up
12:20 What this CPU is GREAT at
13:28 Why would AMD do this?
14:14 Why would LTT do this?
14:53 Who should buy it?
16:35 Outro