My Friends and I Accidentally Faked the Ryzen 7 9700x3d Leaks
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A group of friends accidentally faked a Ryzen 7 9700X3D leak by manipulating CPU information, highlighting the ease of misleading tech news and the importance of verifying information.
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As do we all.
My guess is they are functionally saying “this probably happened on discord if anybody is wondering how this is even possible and not made up for effect” but I might be interpreting too much
I have good friends that love to discuss highly technical topics over a beer or whiskey.
Ahhh, I see, I see...
Clearly proximity is involved
> As do we all.
I think they interpreted “as do we all” as pointing out humorously that this is an unusual friend group. So, speculation that it might have formed online makes sense, because online spaces can sometimes facilitate that sort of thing.
If you're looking for similar discords, I might recommend the discords for things like Bazzite, LTT, Mint, or any number of other small-tech-youtube-discords, or discords for technical video games (eg. Turing Complete, BeamNG, PCBS, Factorio). Discord has no algorithm, you have to find the content yourself!
Other examples include "let's build a submarine" https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11828-how_to_build_a_submarine_a..., creating your own 2000s style phone ringtone/wallpaper subscription service https://blamba.de/ or running toslink audio over regular long-distance fiber links https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/sfp-experiment-ultra-long-ra...
1. Start building stuff that is hard to build that requires touching these niche topics. Especially stuff you don't know how to build
2. As you encounter problems, you'll have to scour for solutions (AI doesn't know these things due to lack of training data). In the process you will find people who are also working on these problems. Ask these people well-formed, intelligent questions.
I find AI shockingly bad ad searching the web, as SEO blogspam sites heavily pollute AI context windows, while relevant and important resources are typically very densely presented reference material which must be constantly revisited.
[1] https://github.com/AngryUEFI/ZenUtils
I'm considering a new build soon, but RAM prices are out of control, like they've more than doubled since June! (Damn AI bubble...) I guess I'll have to get by with my Ryzen 1800X a bit longer.
I hope I'm never working on a project where -j32 on a 5900XT is noticeably faster than than -j16 on a 5700X3D.
Then again, -j1 is nice, when you need to time a break. (https://xkcd.com/303/)
Or do you think journalists are going to wait for ‘peer review’ for their breaking news?
"New CPU in Passmark" news has become so regular, I've long since assumed that they are not leaks at all, but intentional product hype.
EXIF metadata is editable, too. Similar that it could be useful intelligence, but it is very easy to deceive others with it.
The mainstream journalism about this was actually pretty good
No
The two articles I saw about this both emphasized that the high clock speed (from the PBO) was inconsistent with the name of the CPU that implied it would be lower performance than the 9800X3D.
Most of the sites I check regularly have been pretty good about calling out inconsistent leaks or rumors, contrary to the “all journalism is trash” comments down below. On the other hand, if you were following someone who presented this singular benchmark result as proof of something without looking at the details, it might be a good time to reconsider the quality of your sources. I did see some lazy Twitter personalities parroting the result without any actual thought.
An Intel engineer in the comments did confirm that they test some CPUs to destruction in the factory (at Intel, at least), but "...if the benchmarks leave the lab, the employee leaves the company". Also that they usually do that kind of testing on golden bin chips, not a lower-clocked bin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
Clearly there's a market for a 9700X3D though!
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