Intel 13th and 14th Gen confirmed defective

TonyCarter

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FYI, my work laptop must be safe, as it only has one sticker on it...
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...unfortunately I believe it means that whilst I can't break it, anyone in our IT department can do so...remotely ;)
 

TonyCarter

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BTW, I can't wait for this to be made into a movie, just to hear the immortal monologue...

To BSOD, or not to BSOD: that is not the question:​


Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer through poorly binned and deposited silicon misfortune,
or to take up AMD against a sea of Intel troubles, and by opposing end them?​

To melt: to explode; No more; and by explode to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand deaths of micro-stutters than 15th gen is heir to, 'tis a consummation devoutly to be avoided​

 

SpyderTracks

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But that’s the point, the voltage correction won’t solve the issue, it will merely increase the deterioration time, the architecture, the bridge between the ecores and pcores is substandard.

They very quietly released 14th gen sans ecores, I’m betting as they know that is the only actual solution, disabling ecores or fully removing them from the die. So far these are OEM only, I bet my bottom dollar these are eventually released as replacements


So at the end of July, Intel released some 14th Gen processors without ecores, only on the embedded market

Intel posted some official announcements of these, and then almost immediately pulled them everywhere on their site.


There are rumours now coming in in the industry that upcoming Bartlett Lake-S processors (which is just a new raptor lake but with an additional 4 PCores) due for release early 2025 is also going to have no ecores and may be being lined up as a replacement for defective 13th and 14th Gen CPUs.

So it would be an 8 core i5, a 10 core i7 and a 12 core i9


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SpyderTracks

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Intel have just publicised a root cause, haven’t had a chance to read it yet

 

Scott

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25% Partner Error
75% Intel design

The 25% itself can be argued as that's got its own can of worms open already as we all know. They're effectively saying utilising power settings outside of "recommended" will cause the wear, along with the inherent issues compounding the fault. This explains why even using stock limits is only a mitigation for a time period, rather than a fix.

They've stated run to run variance between the systems, which I'm not surprised at as reducing from the initially considered "performance" settings was the main performance reducer. Any changes to voltages will be fairly minimal and thus a small impact is seen.

Good to know that end users should hopefully have a solution. Any defective chips replaced and updated with the microcode should be good to go.

I would be very interested to witness the degradation of a chip with those microcode updates yet still using the "Extreme" profiles on the boards. My guess is the issues wouldn't present as the microcode and voltage pull on the affected area has been the issue all along. If you limit the water pressure to the house it doesn't matter how much you open the taps.
 

FraSha

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Apologies in advance and please delete link if it is a breach of protocol or in the wrong place! But is this (a) legitimate, and (b) something we should do now for the appropriate processors/BiOS (I would be very happy to receive advice which exact ones need it)?: https://rog.asus.com/uk/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z790-f-gaming-wifi-model/helpdesk_bios/
I don't know what to do about the microcode update; either where to find the right one or how to install it safely.
 
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TonyCarter

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Apologies in advance and please delete link if it is a breach of protocol or in the wrong place! But is this (a) legitimate, and (b) something we should do know for the appropriate processors/BiOS (I would be very happy to receive advice which exact ones need it)?: https://rog.asus.com/uk/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z790-f-gaming-wifi-model/helpdesk_bios/
In most cases we'd stay away from beta versions, but only PCS themselves can advise/authorise if a particular BIOS is okay to use (and maintain warranty).
 

SpyderTracks

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Apologies in advance and please delete link if it is a breach of protocol or in the wrong place! But is this (a) legitimate, and (b) something we should do know for the appropriate processors/BiOS (I would be very happy to receive advice which exact ones need it)?: https://rog.asus.com/uk/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z790-f-gaming-wifi-model/helpdesk_bios/
Anyone on Intel will need the coming BIOS updates, but PCS will advise you which specific one to install.

I would advise to anyone if you’re out of warranty and just going to flash it, never flash a BETA BIOS, ESPECIALLY with ASUS as they don’t have a good history over the past couple of years with BIOS updates
 

TonyCarter

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Intel have fixed their problems with the announcement of the new Arrow Lake Core Ultra.

But as part of that fix seems to be to lower the power consumption, the performance has decreased slightly over the 14th gen CPUs (still better in productivity than the 9950X supposedly, but worse in gaming than the 7950X3D) 🤦‍♂️


Also not that Intel have used some 'application optimizations' with the benchmarks, so real world results may be different.
 
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SpyderTracks

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Yeah, as always wait for 3rd party reviews, marketing = lies

I have questions:

1/. Why raise the TJMax if the cpu runs more efficiently and cooler? My guess is they can claim it’s an extra 5c delta to thermal throttling simply because they’ve increased the TJMax. I fully expect temps to still be very high.

2/. Why have Intel APO enabled on the gaming benchmarks? It’s only available in a handful of titles and I’m betting favours this particular architecture heavily, hence hugely skewing results against general games on AMD. I’m betting general gaming performance will be down quite a bit.

3/. Guarantee power isnt cut in half! They specify “in lightly threaded loads”, this suggests to me under a decent fluctuating high peaks like gaming or all core constant load in multi core, I reckon we’ll see slightly reduced power use under real world scenarios
 
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SimonPeters116

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Intel have just publicised a root cause, haven’t had a chance to read it yet


I read it, but it doesn't mean much to me unfortunately.
This publication specifically says Desktop cpus.
I'm active on a Steam discussion page and fairly frequently see gamers proudly saying they have 13th/14th gen intel cpus, therefore it can't be a cpu problem. It often transpires that they're using a gaming laptop. So I'm wondering if the laptop cpus don't have the same problems,?
Are they exactly the same cpu? Or are they designed to run cooler, or anything else to make them a better cpu for a restrictive case??
 
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