Saturday, August 13th 2022
Intel Asks Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt Winners to Accept a CPU In Lieu of Graphics Card
Remember that Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt that Intel hosted last year? If you somehow missed it, Intel was maybe giving away some Arc graphics cards to 300 lucky winners. There were two different tiers of prizes, grand prize and first prize, which later ended up translating to an Arc A770 and an Arc A750 graphics card respectively. Now news via VideoCardz are suggesting that Intel is trying to get out of giving these 300 people their prize, well, at least the promised graphics card, in exchange for an Alder Lake CPU.
Intel has apparently sent out an email to the winners, asking them to accept an Intel Core i7-12700K if they were a grand prize winner or a Core i5-12600K if they were a first prize winner, instead of the promised graphics card. The winners have until Friday the 19th of August to decide if they want a CPU instead of a GPU, although Intel is apparently still allowing them to wait for a GPU, the company just doesn't say how long the wait will be. As the prize has to have a similar retail price, it's also possible to get a ballpark figure of the MSRP of Intel's supposedly upcoming Arc 700-series graphics cards. The Arc A770 should end up at around the $410 mark and the A750 around the $290 mark, as this is the ballpark MSRP for the CPU's that are being offered. It would be interesting to know how many people would be willing to do the trade, but sadly we're unlikely to ever find out.
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VideoCardz
Intel has apparently sent out an email to the winners, asking them to accept an Intel Core i7-12700K if they were a grand prize winner or a Core i5-12600K if they were a first prize winner, instead of the promised graphics card. The winners have until Friday the 19th of August to decide if they want a CPU instead of a GPU, although Intel is apparently still allowing them to wait for a GPU, the company just doesn't say how long the wait will be. As the prize has to have a similar retail price, it's also possible to get a ballpark figure of the MSRP of Intel's supposedly upcoming Arc 700-series graphics cards. The Arc A770 should end up at around the $410 mark and the A750 around the $290 mark, as this is the ballpark MSRP for the CPU's that are being offered. It would be interesting to know how many people would be willing to do the trade, but sadly we're unlikely to ever find out.
76 Comments on Intel Asks Xe-HPG Scavenger Hunt Winners to Accept a CPU In Lieu of Graphics Card
And Intel was sitting there, watching Nvidia and AMD have problems selling cards and begin planning on delaying their launches to help solve it. And that's the moment Raja realized his team was in deep doo-doo. They waited six months too long and now they were a few billion short on all them internal management checks they been writing.
And somewhere Raja is throwing darts at a dartboard with the head of the driver team's face plastered dead center. "I woulda gotten away with it, too," he says, throwing another dart, "if not for them meddlin' kids."
Nowhere did I write that Intel wasn't going to offer the winners a prize.
Also, even Intel said maybe with regards to giving the scavenger hunters a prize, as I already pointed out in the comments.
xehpg.intel.com/
And because its so reliant on resizable bar it needs something a tad newer to get the most out of it (but that is more a con of their new gpu's then anything else).
But a new cpu needs a new fitting motherboard to work, you can't just slot that into some old motherboard, and you need ram that fit it as well.
My friend has a 3570k system, if she won an A750 she could just install it and use it (thought she has a 3060Ti atm so she wouldnt but thats not the point).
If she instead got a 12700k, she would have to get a new motherboard and new ram as well......
so yeah it holds a lot of water.
Soon, AMD and Nvidia will start to launch their next gen, and if I'm not mistaken AMD will arrive with their new mid-range fairly quickly, displacing the A750/A770 to the lower mid-range. So by that logic, they should sell them as fast as possible, because their value is declining quickly.
We can spend all day discussing how it technically means the same thing but it doesn't change how the entire thing is worded with a depreciative and incorrect angle. Weekend and august are slower on news so whatever brings the engagement up and it's still fun to mock intel's latest debacle I guess
Since when is ask a bad word? I didn't write that they demand that users change their prize, nor that Intel is forcing them.
Reminds me of this