News - Intel paying Pentium 4 customers US$15 in compensation

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It allegedly manipulated benchmark scores of the first-gen P4 processors 14 years ago.

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Gotta love that 14 years ago and it's only really come out now

So it is U.S only, that's a bit cheap of them ! I'm sure a few people in other parts of the world bought a P4 based computer. Also $15 !!! what a bag over the head\punch in the face, every customer should get a full refund for being duped into buying what was essentially a lie.

Who the hell bought P4's? The Athlons of the day were much better :p
Not owned an AMD CPU since though lol

Agree LeetyMcLeet, Ive done exactly the same about rubbishing P4's and then only buying Intel since the Athlon series ended!
Why is Illinois excluded?!?

+1 again for Athlon XP and then 100% Intel after that :-) I also wondered what Illinois has done to deserve exclusion!

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Originally Posted by DemonHighwayman

So it is U.S only, that's a bit cheap of them ! I'm sure a few people in other parts of the world bought a P4 based computer. Also $15 !!! what a bag over the head\punch in the face, every customer should get a full refund for being duped into buying what was essentially a lie.

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The US-only thing is not that uncommon. The Nvidia solder defect was US-only too (and only applied to some laptops not the equally faulty desktop parts, plus the settlement was for what was essentially a netbook even for people whose $1000+ laptops died).

As for the $15, well that's hardly worth digging out any invoice for (and how many people still have those 14 years later?) unless you were a business which bought hundreds of them. One thing though, these CPUs would most likely still be working but I wonder how many of them would have gone into a Dell system (because Intel and Dell were really cozy back then) where Dell had cheapened out and used some of the infamous 'capacitor plague' caps which all died after a few years.

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Originally Posted by DemonHighwayman

every customer should get a full refund for being duped into buying what was essentially a lie.

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I'm no Intel fanboy, but lets keep a bit of perspective; this is compensation (for loss), not punitive damages. How much "loss" has a family actually suffered for buying a fully functioning PC that might not have been quite as quick as they thought when compared to one containing an Athlon CPU? I reccon $15 is probably about right, but would find it difficult to argue anywhere between $0 and $25.

And it doesn't apply to businesses, and you don't need a receipt, but please don't perjure yourself.

I still have a DELL P4 PC, I am trying to sell. And, no one on ebay even buys it for £20!

I've got an old Dell P4 PC with Ubuntu on it doing nothing next to my current system... My first computer was a Pentium 4 as well that I got a little over a year before that in May 2005.

Good to see Intel paying for their bad business practices even if it is too little too late.

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Originally Posted by Noxvayl

Good to see Intel paying for their bad business practices even if it is too little too late.

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Just a shame they aren't actually admitting to anything!

Took a Barton Cored XP2500+ to 4.2GHz (effectively a... 5000+) under phase change back in the day. AMD were waaaaaaay ahead at the time.

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Originally Posted by OilSheikh

I still have a DELL P4 PC, I am trying to sell. And, no one on ebay even buys it for £20!

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thats DDR 2 / quad core money :eek: probably why, though you could go for the "antique" sell

my first PC was a P4 2.0ghz...aahhh memories

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Originally Posted by jackvdbuk

my first PC was a P4 2.0ghz...aahhh memories

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Slightly off topic but ... (in a Yorkshire accent) You were lucky! My first was a 25 MHz (yes Mega, not Giga) 486SX, before Intel even dreamed of Pentium

Pfffft I started with a 286 with a 20MB hard disk. As for why that P4 won't sell, it's because they're ancient and being given away for free on sites like Freecycle!

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Originally Posted by OilSheikh

I still have a DELL P4 PC, I am trying to sell. And, no one on ebay even buys it for £20!

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Ditto. I have two. An HP s478 2.8GHz and a Dell S775 3.0GHz. I literally cannot give them away!