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Re: The What You've just Bought thread!
You missed Itanium.
The undoubtful winner, the Prescott. Besides that, any Pentium 4 to date was simply terrible, hot, and beatin by the underclocked Athlons.
Running second, the Celeron. That processor will probably have a terrible name it can never get rid of.
The 975x chipset. Slated as high end yet people had to buy later revisions to support later on processors. Then was held back by the 2 gen old south bridge. Which brings me to:
X38/X48. Too much, too late, too expensive, unwanted limitations. They were great, if you had more money than brains, but held back in their own ways. Not exactly a fail, but Intel shot theirselves in the foot with these when they released the P35/P45 boards. IIRC Nvidia had THE top GPUs but yet these boards did not do SLI. Pitty.
Hyper-Threading V1. I'm sure we can all agree it was simply rubbish and a marketing ploy.
Slot-A Pentium 3. Omg these were so terrible for consumers. I personally had 3 and my Duron made mince meat of them. I suppose they were great for offices because (I've been told) they were fairly cheap as OEMs could get them at a huge discount. Still though, small weak fans riddled with problems if put in non-clean environments, easily over heated, ect. I also personally had tons of problems making them work in their own boards if they sat a while.
The first Pentium with its float bug. Almost as popular as the TLB Errata from AMD.
Last but of course not least, the 320 SSD with it's 8MB bug.
I can keep going, but there is no point. Intel has made many rubbish products and have been doing it long before OCZs terrible Vertex 2 scare. Point being, people still use Intel because the name has been put on the high totem pole for years. Not because everything they release is quality.
Disclaimer:
I can name off rubbish products from many companies. Intel was just in the spotlight this time.
You missed Itanium.