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Game dev [Alderon Games] accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs [13th&14th-gen] [ quote: "we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing" ]

Intel accused of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/13/game_raptor_intel

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD

Intel accused of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

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darcmage

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Thanks, I watched it but I must've missed that part. If it does turn out that the 900mhz boost to the compute fabric is at fault, Wendell seems to be implying it might not be possible to solve with a microcode update. I hope that's not the case but I guess we'll find out soon enough.