Yeah. Not good. Chips appear to start out ok but "degrade" over time. It's also looking like the earlier "motherboards running chips out of spec" problem might've been a bit of a red herring, and actually alluded to this wider problem (The failures are also being seen on server boards which have never ran at the higher voltages.. )Intel's 13900k's and 14900k's are crashing at an alarming rate
Wendell (of L1) estimates that, conservatively, Intel might have to end up replacing at least 25% of the CPU's - and even that assumes they provide updates which can mitigate the problem for others. Apparently Gamers Nexus also think they have an idea of what the issue is, so I guess we can expect to see some more videos on this soon.
At this point people shouldn't build systems based on the 13900 / 14900. If you do expect instability which increases over time, and which may be made worse by other factors like higher DDR speeds. I assume Intel will do the right thing, and replace any chips which can be shown to have problems. The longer you have run the chip, the more likely that is to be true.
Statistics: Posted by PAK — Fri Jul 12, 2024 5:04 am