Can't blame it on the math co-processor this time.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12853

I bet some of you old timers remember the Intel Math Co-Processor debacle several years past. Well, guess what? Intel's done it again.

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/1 ... intillion/

Glad I continued to choose AMD.

K1TesseraEna · **Joined:** Sep 22, 2012 **Posts:** 2089 **Location:** US

I have two PCs running on Intel's Core i7 CPUs.
I want my money back! :hehe

sallyanne · **Posted:** Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:24 pm **(#3)**

Whatever that all means, I hope intel core i5 is ok?

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

sallyanne wrote:

Whatever that all means, I hope intel core i5 is ok?

I would not bet too much money on that. There is some amount of engineering re-use between processor generations.... But if the problem has taken so long to surface, it's because it doesn't matter for most people. The Pentium divide bug had far more impact in everyday computer usage, and still plenty of people lived happily with the buggy version.