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EDIT: I'm kidding around, just laugh and move on 😁
I got it from a relative quite a few years ago, I got it this way, literally only added the GPU from a pc I found in the back of our garage, yes this is my only pc if you want to ask
Technically these are monitors with laptop specs... (But yes these monstrosities exists with Intel Atom's)
But imagine giving someone a BGA CPU? It's not like anyone has a BGA station lying in their garage and a Laptop/AIO Motherboard without a CPU, not even worth the effort for an Intel Atom :/
No you don't, in the rest of the article, it talks about how the computer they put the CPU in blue screens and freezes constantly, thc CPU reports 5 cores, and 10 threads.
Stupid fast for the time I meant, it still gets utterly thrashed around by my laptop R5 4600h, because of 13y ipc improvements, core count increases and potentially avx2 instruction set
Same with my Core 2 Quad. At the time going from a P4 to a C2Q that overclocked by another full ghz was insane. Today it's a paperweight, even an 8th gen i3 completely wipes the floor with it in every way AND uses a literal fraction of the power.
Stock speed on the Q6600 was 2.4ghz and pretty much any chip could do 3ghz at stock vcore with the boxed heatsink. An average chip could reliably make it to around 3.3ghz with aftermarket cooling, and if you had a good bin and solid cooler you could probably get all the way to 3.6.
For perspective the world record was 5.1ghz. Overclocking on those bad boys was *nuts*.
I'm gonna be upgrading from my ancient i7 3770k to an i7 14700k soon. What's the difference going to feel like to me?
Somehow my 3060 12GB + 3770k is holding up, I can play Half Life: Alyx on high settings no problem.
15 years went by and we're still mucking about with 4 GHz give or take.
It's funny because I didn't even notice when installing my AM5 CPU... but now that you mention it, it was damn nice. I didn't feel like I was going to wreck the CPU just by trying to get it out of the box.
Yeah but people will pay them hundreds of dollars for jpegs so why would they change?
I love calling skins jpegs because it really shows how much you’re paying for a digital texture. In CS I know you can sell them but for most games it really doesn’t make sense unless you play that game almost exclusively and/or want to support the developer/publisher
The fact that Japan is this level of Technology advanced that they sell you fricken CPUs in a vending machine, makes me hate all the other vendors/countries...
God dangit....
its no big leap to just sell something high tech from a machine, and yet CV's are handwritten and cash is still the majority. They invent the stuff but don't want to change society to really use it.
I don't think the counter examples you gave are particularly convincing. Aside from online purchases, which can only be made through card/online banking, social studies suggest cash is superior for most transactions, and more and more people are moving back towards using cash in their transactions as of late. As for hand written CV's, I can see how that in itself could be seen as part of the evaluation process of the employe, a lot could be determined by how you would choose to write such a CV
Japan also required floppy disks for government forms until this year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/floppy-disk-requirements-finally-axed-from-japan-government-regulations/
Think Japan is the main country keeping fax machines afloat, no?
And while I agree about the 'people moving back to cash', from what I've heard of others' experience the ability to use non-cash in Japan is quite low vs other countries (esp of equal world standing).
The hand written as part of the evaluation process is quite cool, but could you imagine if an employer in US/UK/etc tried to push that as a requirement (+ bringing in your application personally, vs sending an email, etc)?
You can find these gachapon machines everywhere. I’m sure there’s some Japanese novelty store in most major cities. This one just happened to be filled with old CPUs someone bought in bulk for cheap.
It’s basically a bigger gumball machine
You can live your whole life by just using vending machines for everything there.
That is the result of a country that is heavily introverted and it's simply beautiful.
one of the reason why their natality rate is so low. If they are not overworked to death they dont have a motivation to socialise so I wouldn't call it beautiful but rather dreadful.
Yeah, I know that the fetishisation of Japan is quite common but as someone that lives here married with children, there are a myriad of social issues that need to be addressed. It’s a peaceful, convenient, and safe place to live but it’s not this Shangri-La that some make it out to be. I asked one of my close friends here what he thought about the subject and he told me, “It is a lovely country but there is a reason it is called “Japan” and not *Heaven*”.
Yeah, it’s a relief for my wife and I to know that our kids are also being taught to be respectable members of society at school. Their school lunch is also bloody fantastic, certainly better than the scop I grew up with lmao.
Japan’s suicide rate is actually the lowest it’s been since 2003. In fact, the U.S. has a far higher suicide rate. Meanwhile, South Korea has taken Japan’s previous spot in suicides per capita thanks to the Cyberpunk dystopia they’re living in.
As for the “sweatshops”, Japan has been raising awareness about these ブラック企業 to help the uninitiated in recognising and avoiding them. It’s not always a guarantee that someone won’t decide to work at one but at least steps are being taken to reduce the likelihood of doing so.
How is a vending machine "technologically advanced"?
What does it need to do that's so difficult? A soda machine has to keep cans cold, that's more than what you'd have to do to dispense boxes. So, what are you saying is so advanced?
They do have some really nice vending machines over there, they dispense hot food like an automat but in vending machine form, there's rice and ramen items, ice cream and so on.
A gachapon machine however isn't advanced.
Lol this isnt advanced. This is just a novel way of recycling ewaste. Vending machines with maker supplies like Raspberry Pis exist (or at least used to exist before the pandemic) in other countries. Those were brand new, guaranteed to work, and you knew what you were getting. These are just old CPUs, likely pulled from ewaste. The sign even says they're not guaranteed to work. They're not stocking the latest gen cpus.
It’s basically mostly pretty old CPUs and a couple relatively new ones. Quite popular in Akihabara, usually get empty pretty quick and sometimes you have small queues for it
[https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-processors-from-the-Gacha-vending-machine-Japanese-store-sells-random-CPUs-for-3.830684.0.html](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-processors-from-the-Gacha-vending-machine-Japanese-store-sells-random-CPUs-for-3.830684.0.html) scroll to the maps
Gashapon market is something else. Spent $300 to complete a set of specific line of toys and now I want to find this specific gashapon and try to get an engineering sample.
I've seen a few of these, they're legit and all over at cheap used pc shops.
You can also gatcha random video games for the ps vita and switch and such in some places, lots of things like that.
God imagine finding an old K cpu, but the mobos are all not worth the price/performance (some old K OC mobos can be like 150-200$.) especially since the cpu isn't confirmed to work.
Something to do with moving the delicate bendy bits from the extemely valuable component to the less valuable (and somewhat protected) component. That was until motherboard prices started shooting up.
But is it working or just displaying?
Looks like some work and some don't. if you can see the red japanese one the machine. *動作保証はございません（No guarantee it will work）
Is this the famous silicone lottery people talk about?
No, that silicone lottery is about whether the implant ruptures and leaks out, or not
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We should bring back bullying
It's playful chiding. Havin' a goof. Havin' gaff.
Yeah it's a shame we got rid of it. Now all these septum piercing, vibrant color hair, don't know what bathroom to use creatures are all among us.
Ok boomer
I'm a millennial you entitled zoomer
Same thing at this point lol
Transphobia?
I mean for $3 it's not really a loss
Yeah, I have a 3800x that nobody will take.
Can I have it? :D
Send me your address in a pm.
Hopefully, someone doesn't repeatedly hit it with a hammer until its contents fall out.
F series wontbe displaying on their own
I wish I could buy from that machine
\*Gets intel atom for $25
https://preview.redd.it/s9m67q8e8ewc1.png?width=557&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e50dc50f7ea46a217375c19e5d04184ba2b8e7d
This image is funny on the same level as the I'm happy for you picture
Huh
The little kid that's scowling and the caption says "congrats" "i'm happy for you"
https://preview.redd.it/7p22tz85lfwc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2cf5fd47af2ab3004cbf188e696110e867c77edb
Oh I know what you're talking about thanks 😂
You are still on a core 2 duo so it not WAYY better in terms of specs, still like 100 times safer tho.
Holy shit actual core duo, also why 3gb of ram?
I got it from a relative quite a few years ago, I got it this way, literally only added the GPU from a pc I found in the back of our garage, yes this is my only pc if you want to ask
Holy based!
New e-waste just dropped
This is how boys with colored hair on their reddit avatar talk
mf you have an edgelord pfp
This is how people with an edgy pfp on reddit talk like
Can't believe Intel trademarked the word Bomb smh
What's al-Qaeda gonna do now
https://preview.redd.it/t80potyjvhwc1.png?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b413f3ceeb1c428528a11c622aeb63856843af6a
But can it run Chrome?
Lol
Good lord !
They are sick of those in japan.
I doubt they were evil enough to stock it with CPUs that you can't use without four digits worth of BGA soldering equipment lol
hmmmmmm
You could theoretically use a toaster oven to attach a BGA package IC to a PCB, but it actually working when you're done is another matter entirely. 🤣
I could theoretically punch it in and draw a stick man on my monitor and trick myself into believing it's a miracle (literally)
better than receiving an actual monkey paw
Tbf Atoms never appeared on Desktop, yet
Not even in AIOs?
Technically these are monitors with laptop specs... (But yes these monstrosities exists with Intel Atom's) But imagine giving someone a BGA CPU? It's not like anyone has a BGA station lying in their garage and a Laptop/AIO Motherboard without a CPU, not even worth the effort for an Intel Atom :/
💀
No you don't, in the rest of the article, it talks about how the computer they put the CPU in blue screens and freezes constantly, thc CPU reports 5 cores, and 10 threads.
Ah so it's an aliexpress gacha machine.
Whoops
Wish tier cpu
That's my CPU
Oh, so the CPU lootboxes are here :D
They've been here. Been hooked ever since I got a 2500k that oc'd to 5 ghz. The silicon lottery is the only drug for me.
Damn, a 2500k that clocks like an FX 9590? That must be stupid fast
It was in 2011. Ain't shit now. Bandwidth, cores and cache are king.
Stupid fast for the time I meant, it still gets utterly thrashed around by my laptop R5 4600h, because of 13y ipc improvements, core count increases and potentially avx2 instruction set
Same with my Core 2 Quad. At the time going from a P4 to a C2Q that overclocked by another full ghz was insane. Today it's a paperweight, even an 8th gen i3 completely wipes the floor with it in every way AND uses a literal fraction of the power.
Wait, so you could clock a c2q to 4ghz?
Stock speed on the Q6600 was 2.4ghz and pretty much any chip could do 3ghz at stock vcore with the boxed heatsink. An average chip could reliably make it to around 3.3ghz with aftermarket cooling, and if you had a good bin and solid cooler you could probably get all the way to 3.6. For perspective the world record was 5.1ghz. Overclocking on those bad boys was *nuts*.
Oops, I thought you meant 1ghz above the pentium, not overclocking 1ghz above its stock speed
I'm gonna be upgrading from my ancient i7 3770k to an i7 14700k soon. What's the difference going to feel like to me? Somehow my 3060 12GB + 3770k is holding up, I can play Half Life: Alyx on high settings no problem. 15 years went by and we're still mucking about with 4 GHz give or take.
The 14700k is gonna give you far more stable frame rate but at a cost - this gen's intel seems excessively power-hungry, especially at the high end
Holy hell, that 3060 is bottlenecked af, just like mine, also why not updgrade to Ryzen? Far cheaper and better
I do a lot of desktop stuff, and 3D work. Games is secondary.
Yup. For every i7 50 people get an old pentium
Yeah it would not be possible to have these where I live
The entire machine would be gone in 1 hour
Give it a few generations and we'll have an AMD variant. They tried with pre-AM5 processors but um, everyone had a bad time.
I mean they could've used plastic covers for the pins :/
AM5 is switching to a land grid array? *About damn time*.
It's funny because I didn't even notice when installing my AM5 CPU... but now that you mention it, it was damn nice. I didn't feel like I was going to wreck the CPU just by trying to get it out of the box.
What even is this post title? Bot post?
No one else noticed so I’m guessing the comments are bots too lol Am I a bot?
We are all bots on this blessed day
I usually don’t read post titles
We've deterioted so far that not only do people not even read the articles, they aren't even reading the titles/headlines anymore.
A lot of casual internet japanese sounds very weird if translated literally, so i am guessing it could be that?
If only cs cases did this instead of pixel skins.
I mean selling a cs skin could pay for the cpu
I don't even have that crazy of an inventory but I could buy my GPU for it.
Yeah but people will pay them hundreds of dollars for jpegs so why would they change? I love calling skins jpegs because it really shows how much you’re paying for a digital texture. In CS I know you can sell them but for most games it really doesn’t make sense unless you play that game almost exclusively and/or want to support the developer/publisher
AHHA that's so cool! ♥
wow so a 40 dollar cpu is the jackpot. amazing.
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more like 100-130€ where I live.
It's listed as $516 in webshops where I live, but not in stock anywhere, lmao.
That's because that CPU is seven years old. You don't turn to retailers for pricing on long discontinued stuff.
Also, the 8700 they got had 5 cores and 10 threads, so it's not even an 8700 in terms of performance
The fact that Japan is this level of Technology advanced that they sell you fricken CPUs in a vending machine, makes me hate all the other vendors/countries... God dangit....
its no big leap to just sell something high tech from a machine, and yet CV's are handwritten and cash is still the majority. They invent the stuff but don't want to change society to really use it.
I don't think the counter examples you gave are particularly convincing. Aside from online purchases, which can only be made through card/online banking, social studies suggest cash is superior for most transactions, and more and more people are moving back towards using cash in their transactions as of late. As for hand written CV's, I can see how that in itself could be seen as part of the evaluation process of the employe, a lot could be determined by how you would choose to write such a CV
Just 2 of many examples, for the sake of brevity, I’ve seen discussed by westerners who live in Japan from their experiences over the years.
Fair enough, it's not like japan is the perfect nation, no such nation exists
Japan also required floppy disks for government forms until this year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/floppy-disk-requirements-finally-axed-from-japan-government-regulations/
Now yeh, that was just flat-out dumb
Think Japan is the main country keeping fax machines afloat, no? And while I agree about the 'people moving back to cash', from what I've heard of others' experience the ability to use non-cash in Japan is quite low vs other countries (esp of equal world standing). The hand written as part of the evaluation process is quite cool, but could you imagine if an employer in US/UK/etc tried to push that as a requirement (+ bringing in your application personally, vs sending an email, etc)?
They just stopped using floppy disks in offices.
You can find these gachapon machines everywhere. I’m sure there’s some Japanese novelty store in most major cities. This one just happened to be filled with old CPUs someone bought in bulk for cheap. It’s basically a bigger gumball machine
You can live your whole life by just using vending machines for everything there. That is the result of a country that is heavily introverted and it's simply beautiful.
one of the reason why their natality rate is so low. If they are not overworked to death they dont have a motivation to socialise so I wouldn't call it beautiful but rather dreadful.
Yeah, I know that the fetishisation of Japan is quite common but as someone that lives here married with children, there are a myriad of social issues that need to be addressed. It’s a peaceful, convenient, and safe place to live but it’s not this Shangri-La that some make it out to be. I asked one of my close friends here what he thought about the subject and he told me, “It is a lovely country but there is a reason it is called “Japan” and not *Heaven*”.
I really appreciate how they teach kids to clean after themselves as part of their schooling (as in, kids clean the classrooms, etc).
Yeah, it’s a relief for my wife and I to know that our kids are also being taught to be respectable members of society at school. Their school lunch is also bloody fantastic, certainly better than the scop I grew up with lmao.
Yeah people forget about the high suicide rate too, also the term and black company (as in companies with sweatshop like labor/abuse.)
Japan’s suicide rate is actually the lowest it’s been since 2003. In fact, the U.S. has a far higher suicide rate. Meanwhile, South Korea has taken Japan’s previous spot in suicides per capita thanks to the Cyberpunk dystopia they’re living in. As for the “sweatshops”, Japan has been raising awareness about these ブラック企業 to help the uninitiated in recognising and avoiding them. It’s not always a guarantee that someone won’t decide to work at one but at least steps are being taken to reduce the likelihood of doing so.
In what world is throwing a bunch of old recycled processors into a gumball machine considered technologically advanced? 😂
Legit, people out here thinking the vending machine is making these chips from scratch or something
How is a vending machine "technologically advanced"? What does it need to do that's so difficult? A soda machine has to keep cans cold, that's more than what you'd have to do to dispense boxes. So, what are you saying is so advanced?
They do have some really nice vending machines over there, they dispense hot food like an automat but in vending machine form, there's rice and ramen items, ice cream and so on. A gachapon machine however isn't advanced.
Imagine a soda machine if it were transported 150 years into the past Diabetes runs rampant
Advanced technology? These are machines where you insert a coin, turn a lever, and a plastic ball with a surprise comes out from it.
Lol this isnt advanced. This is just a novel way of recycling ewaste. Vending machines with maker supplies like Raspberry Pis exist (or at least used to exist before the pandemic) in other countries. Those were brand new, guaranteed to work, and you knew what you were getting. These are just old CPUs, likely pulled from ewaste. The sign even says they're not guaranteed to work. They're not stocking the latest gen cpus.
For all the advancements Japan has, they also have some pretty ingrained backwards practices that make you tear your hair out if you work with them.
Doesn’t the article say they’re normally plastic toys?
They make up for it by usually adding several hundred bucks on to the price in stores.
Let's go baby ! That's why you gamble 💯
PC hardware and gacha mechanics. The pull rate for an i9 must be dismal.
I bet 95% of them are Core 2 Duos
It’s basically mostly pretty old CPUs and a couple relatively new ones. Quite popular in Akihabara, usually get empty pretty quick and sometimes you have small queues for it
Silicon Lottery
That's great and all, but why would I want an i7 8700?
I’ve got a mini pc with an 8500T. If it cost me 3 bucks, I’d get it and be quite happy about it
You can sell those cpu online if it works and you don't need it.
Reminds me of the Gamers Nexus [Mystery CPU Reveal](https://www.youtube.com/live/ozi2C3pcFZE?si=WOB6AJdfJLrdaos_)
I'm just waiting for someone to get a 14th gen i9 for $3
I have an fx8300 ! Anything would be better !
**Next up:** Claw machine that gives you a chance to win GPUs
WHERE GIMME LOCATION
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Now imagine Microcenter with hundreds of these. Build a completely random PC on the cheap.
Gashapon market is something else. Spent $300 to complete a set of specific line of toys and now I want to find this specific gashapon and try to get an engineering sample.
Damn, the guy promoting these has got to be pissed his biggest price is already gone.
That’s one confusing pic
3$ 486
What i7 though. A used one?????
Obviously it's a brand new 8700k....
Where is this I need a location
I'm just thinking if theres a gpu one and that's where the scalpers during the great gpu crash got there cards from.
Intel Meltdown/Spectre infested junk silicon? I wouldn't take even if it was free.
Meltdown/Spectre is overrated.
If true, that's the point. It's a "Gachapon". 10,000 of the others were plastic toy CPU, one guy scored the real thing.
New level of gamble
I've seen a few of these, they're legit and all over at cheap used pc shops. You can also gatcha random video games for the ps vita and switch and such in some places, lots of things like that.
I call BS..
As the CPU isn't fully working, I don't think it is.
That's still really not a great deal. Pretty sure I can get a CPU that old for free.
No you cannot. The used market would gobble these up for 20x that price.
Working 8700 go for $60, and that’s if you get a good deal. They are trash compared to current gen but they are well loved by the homelabbers
I want one :D
Good luck trying to find the mobo from it...
Take me to Japan now
I need an i7 7700k :( costs 300$ lol. Wanted to upgrade from I5 6500
used market bro
Tough luck in my country. Ebay has 7700k used for like 30$. But they don't deliver here :(
Don't you have a local auction site or trading forum where it's way cheaper too? Unless you're someplace that's giga sanctioned like Cuba or Iran.
We do, and I'm keeping track. But these chips are kinda rare. Or I'm unlucky. And we do have sanctions, but not as bad as Iran. Yet.
Knowing my luck I'd probably end up with something like a 1.8GHz Celeron D...
Aren't there stuff in those that are rare earth materials?
I'm mid build, trying to figure out why a brand new i7-14700KF is DOA, and people are out there trusting a $3 CPU? What a weird world.
As someone who still uses a intel 9400f i need that i7-8700
Im offended
Cool. He might be able to play Skyrim at 30fps!
Bruh, my cpu for 3 bucks?
There's practically a vending machine for everything there
%7 health i7 lol
So des ne?
More proof that the Japanese will put literally anything in Gatchapon.
its my exact cpu
Is this title A.I generated?
Some rule34 shit, If it exists, Japan has vending machines for it
God imagine finding an old K cpu, but the mobos are all not worth the price/performance (some old K OC mobos can be like 150-200$.) especially since the cpu isn't confirmed to work.
Obligary: 90% of gamblers quit before they win "the big one"
Anything below 10th gen is basically considered e waste by large companies. Happy that these found a fun way to be recycled.
I am emptying that bad boi, upon visual contact
Do you think it's a mix of socket types and manufacturer? Or are the machines segregated by socket and manufacturer?
Gimme gimme chance
Gambling, mt beloved
unexpected twewy :D
Too bad they're Intel chips
No one is making you post embarassingly dumb comments. So, why are you?
That is hilarious
Bent pins go brrrrr
Intel is using LGA cpus for several generations now. Unless that machine has something like a pentium 4, pins will be on the motherboard side.
Something to do with moving the delicate bendy bits from the extemely valuable component to the less valuable (and somewhat protected) component. That was until motherboard prices started shooting up.
At least the economies of scale have finally shifted to making LGA cheaper than PGA. (Cost was the reason AM4 stayed PGA)
Intel CPUs haven't had pins on them since the pentium 4 days m8