For the next 18 hours, Intel is offering a chance to win a 5GHz i7 8086K Limited Edition CPU.
It’s been 40 years since we forever changed computing with the x86 architecture and the 8086 processor. Since then, the reasons why we use our computers and how they influence everyday life have changed dramatically. Explore how several prominent gamers and creators have seen their lives changed since they were first introduced to the PC.
The CPU is the first Intel CPU to break 5GHz without overclocking and has 6 cores. Only 50,000 will ever be made of this limited edition model. I highly suspect they will be worth far more due to the limited run and sell for more than the $400 estimated street price of the regular release version.
You can sign up for the drawing here be warned though that multiple entries will get you disqualified.
The model number is a tribute to the original x86 "8086" Processor.
I've been trying to get a CPU with more than 4 cores for a long time but their single core performance has been considerably lower than 4 core processors. In most applications, single core performance is more important than how many total cores on the chip.
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Hi Mark. I wanted to thank you for sharing this info a few months back. I can't really say I've ever won anything substantial... until today when I received my limited edition Core i7 in the mail.
Thanks for making this possible and being a great Steem witness!
OMG really? I'm so jelly. I want one of them so bad.
The odds of the few people who followed through here winning one is astronomical.
I'm a little blown away muhself!! hahahahha this is awesome... good job Mark
thanks so much for sharing this data
Damn, this is a great contest but as an Australian I am not elgible for entry. I received a popup that said:
I don't understand why Australia wouldn't be included, it's part of Asia somewhat (South East Asia). Oh well, whoever wins one of these is going to be absolutely ecstatic.
A lot of contests are limited to certain countries and Australia seems to get screwed all the time. I remember when Adobe announced the release of the last Creative Suite and it was more expensive as an Australian to fly to the United States, buy a copy, and fly back than to buy it in Australia.
I love the accent though, so you got that going for you.
Haha, absolutely. You only have to Google the terms, "Australia tax" to see a detailed history of Australians being ripped off in comparison to everyone else in the world. At least we have kangaroos and deadly spiders going for us as well, not sure that actually helps alleviate the pain of exclusion.
Good luck in the contest, you'll have to do a nice little write-up if you win a CPU because that would be fantastic.
Would be awesome to win one of these little cuties, because I had an ancestor of them in the 90s. Just because I read x86 cpus I am having a lot of great flashbacks and now I think I have to play the good old Wing Commander or civ1 xD
Thank you for that ^^
In reality, all CPUs are sold underclocked to give the illusion of overclocking and satisfy the nerds. This is just another CPU with a high spec, I doubt anyone will be able to overclock it beyond that 5 Ghz.
They actually bin the CPUs. Many of them are the same CPUs are sold as different models depending on how they "test". This way they don't have to make as many individual models. The process of binning (choosing labeling CPU near what they benchmark) tends to keep the tolerances tight.
Not available for my country - Nigeria.
Sir,@themarkymark you make me crazy.
Lol
It's a monster )))
Oh sweet!
I'm always down for a raffle.
That would be awesome to win seeing as my computer is super old.
I didn't even read the rest of you post, just clicked on you like my life was on the line 😭, I wanna get this so badly because there are so many games (own an shitty low budget AMD processor).
Thank you so much dude.
I don't usually join to giveaways but when I do.
Thanks intel we are still using potatoes to make calculations.
Hey dude I need your help. Seems those at family protection services don't like my opinion and today has waged a war of trying to having me banned from this site:
https://steemit.com/informationwar/@truthforce/content-thieves-banned-from-iw-curation
There is comment that steemcleaners will be contacted to see what further can be done.
I am not a content thief, after contacting Dianny several times to join Steemit her reply was she has lupus and managing another website would be difficult for her. She has allowed me to share her content her and I forward all SBD to her. Here is a copy of a email from her:
Thank you again for putting through this donation to PatriotRetort.com. And for continuing to share the posts.
I really do appreciate it!
Dianny
http://patriotretort.com
It is stated in every article the content is not mine, it also states the amount forwarded to her so far. Canadian Coconut said to me yesterday that since she can't ban me she'd flag me, so today it seems they have set out to find a round about way to have me banned off this site. The real reason is because her flags have failed to silence me and I told her go ahead and flag because people can still see the content if they want and see how dishonest she is being. Just like smearing me right now with information wars about Dianny and me being a thief, it's just more of their dishonesty. What good is a web site if people can't have opposing views or feel like they have to be forced into submission out of fear.
Can you please make steemcleaners aware that I am not stealing content so they can't have me removed from Steemit.
You are more than welcome to contact Dianny and ask her yourself.
@familyprotection has absolutely nothing to do with your disagreement with @informationwar and we are not trying to get you banned from steemit, as far as I'm aware this would be impossible. Banning or stopping you from leaving nasty comments on @familyprotection posts is something our whole community would like to see happen but sadly even this is not an option, yet!
I think if your honest with yourself you might start to see that it's your attitude and the way you conduct yourself that is the real problem here and it seems that we are not the only ones who feel this way.
I can understand how you may feel like we are all working together and ganging up on you but this is not the case. To me, it looks like all the negative energy you have been sending out on steemit is all coming back to you at once and you can't handle it.
Apologies to @themarkymark for beefing on your doorstep, it won't happen again I promise.
My relationship was just fine with information wars until this incident and who said yesterday they'd like to ban me?....who left a message that's I'd be enjoying a swim today?....who showed up on the first comment badmouthing me on that information war post? All the evidence is pretty conclusive. As you can check and see for yourself I was busy doing all sorts of things on here after that enter with CA, I wasn't even thinking about CA and her platform but obviously you guys were very angry. Well I am not going to stop being me because of a few pennies may come my way, I research a lot of stuff before I comment, if I comment it's based on the stuff I research, if it goes against what someone posted and they don't like it well that's just the way discussion boards go. Usually everybody comes back to find common ground on something else, the don't sneak around and try and silent that which they don't like. That's a huge problem here on this platform and that's why most blogs you go on is made up of the person whom the blog belongs and their made up little sock puppets who comment because they've done intimidated everyone else off the site because they don't fall into the line of their reasoning. Now if you don't mind I'd rather find other things to do, like maybe make a ill women a little extra cash on the side by posting some of her stuff she's to ill to post, or read and comment on any number of the hundreds of stuff I see on a daily basis and click on....maybe I'll enjoy the read, maybe I'll disagree with the read, maybe I'll research the read but I won't be preoccupied denying anybody their right to say what they want.
I would just like to answer your questions before leaving the author of this post in peace.
Q. 1. who said yesterday they'd like to ban me?.
A. ca-co would love to ban you from trolling on her and @familyprotection posts and I'm guessing it's because of your negativity and your hate towards what we are trying to do, which is very distracting and can take up a lot of time and energy.
Q. 2. who left a message that's I'd be enjoying a swim today?.
A. The have a nice swim comment was a follow up to my previous comment where I said:
Q. 3. who showed up on the first comment badmouthing me on that information war post?
A. No idea! but after reading the comments I would say it's somebody who clearly cares about and supports our cause and doesn't take kindly to the your obvious dislike towards our community.
And as for the whole sock puppet theory, well I'm sorry but I think your a little paranoid and slightly delusional.
Please do, because quite frankly, we've had enough of you, and we'd very much like to never have to respond to, or defend ourselves to your outrageous comments ever again.
Your last sentence sums it up perfectly, since you can't seem to censor/ban me you all thought you'd get together today and find a alternate route. I've done explained all that stuff you keep wanting to go around and around about, I am moving on now, I will see you in the next go around when I see you guys posting lame, unsubstantiated, and half baked legal advice that I know is not true or I can prove fact or otherwise. Lucky for you guys that don't happen to often that you post something ridiculous that critiques my interest. Until that time, Good bye.