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Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Oct. 20, 2025, 1:13 p.m.
Keep your CPU’s serial number. If you got an unusually great deal on this, it’s probably because the 13th- and 14th-generatiom Intel processors have a big caveat that they can randomly burn out. The specific choice of a 13th-gen processor when they’re currently on their 16th makes me think they’re trying to unload the problem generation.
You probably won’t encounter any problems but the risk of failure goes from minuscule up to remote.
And I didn’t mean to be dismissive at all when I describe it as lower-end. It’s all you need for that monitor, which is still probably better than anything you’ve ever known, it’s just that you might have to use high instead of ultra settings in games. Any PC in that line is at least very good.