| Chrkeller said: I built two computers last year, both with gen 13 from Intel. No problems yet, fingers crossed their update comes out soon. Granted the one computer is a i5 and I think the problem is with i7 and i9. I am running at stock performance, I have not overclocked, not sure if that helps. |
I won't profess to be an expert on this situation at all. That said, some Intel users are manually capping their voltages and lock the clocks on their cores to try avoid any degradation. The most annoying thing about Intel's snails pace is there are processors out their that could be saved that are going to end up degraded. It just seems like Intel is trying run out the clock until 15th gen is in full swing.
When I bought my laptop last year I wanted an AMD CPU. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a good AMD CPU option with a good GPU option. I ended up with an i9 13900HX. I figured it may get a bit hot, but the laptop is water cooled, so I'd be okay. My laptop was fine for a couple of weeks but then I started getting freezes, BSODs, and some of my games, BG3 for example, would just lock up. After swapping in different RAM kits and NVMEs, I ended up RMAing it. Vendor gets back to me and it was CPU. I got my first PC Christmas of 1993. I've never had a CPU die on me. I've had Intel, AMD, and even Cyrix CPUs in the past. None of them failed. It didn't even dawn on me to consider that.
So when all of these 13/14th gen failure stories started popping up, I immediately thought about my laptop. It also made me roll my eyes when Intel initially said laptop CPUs were unaffected. I've had my issues with Intel but never from a product reliability standpoint. It was more so with their performance stagnation and later on finding out they used their position to illegally stifle AMD sales back when Althlon was superior product. This current situation is going to be hard for Intel to recover from. Rock solid reliability has always been their hallmark and that's gone now.
