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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by rasz on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:44PM (#29958634)
You misunderstood. This is about resale of base components. Go to ebay and look up 2-3 generations old Intel chips - super cheap from China. With this you wont find cheap AMD parts since they will be locked to Lenovo motherboards.
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vel0city on Sunday January 16, 2022 @01:52PM (#29958712)
FWIW, they're not locked to Lenovo boards you just need to have a board that can be configured to not care about the PSB.
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by NablaSquaredG on Sunday January 16, 2022 @02:04PM (#29958819)
This is not correct. The locks does happen on the CPU level. If the board cannot provide a BIOS with a valid signature from the key that was burned into the CPU, the CPU will refuse to boot (PSB prevents it from booting)
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Re:Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB by vel0city on Sunday January 16, 2022 @10:03PM (#29962907)
Ah, you're right, I was reading the suggestions section of TFA as a the system works like this not that it would be nice if it worked liked this. My bad!
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