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Over the previous few months, numerous instability points have been reported within the trade press with Intel Core thirteenth and 14th Gen desktop processors. It appears that evidently everybody remains to be attending to the underside of what’s inflicting the problems, however the crux of it, no less than as being reported, is that these processors are bodily degrading quicker than they need to, all the way in which to the purpose of failure. No particular failure charges have been introduced, however suffice to say, they’re greater than anticipated for what are nonetheless comparatively new processors.
Intel just lately acknowledged that prime voltage requests to the processor are a major issue inflicting the issue and, as of this publication, has simply begun to roll out a patch to handle it. This patch will stop additional degradation however not reverse current harm.
Right here’s the factor although – regardless of what’s being reported, Velocity Micro has skilled just about no failures of thirteenth and 14th Gen processors within the area, and positively no extra on a share degree than earlier gen.
So what’s occurring right here?
Principle 1 – The experiences of Intel 14th Gen’s dying have been tremendously exaggerated
It’s extraordinarily doable that the severity of the degradation challenge is solely being over reported. Influencers and press want content material, and admittedly, Intel is a straightforward goal proper now. That’s to not say that the issue is non-existent, as a result of it’s clearly very actual – Intel has acknowledged it and supplied prolonged warranties on the affected components – however somewhat that it’s doubtlessly simply not fairly as severe as initially thought. It’s additionally doable although that because the challenge seems to be from {hardware} degradation over time, that we’re nonetheless on the upswing of reported assist points, and that the precise severity will turn out to be extra evident within the close to future.
Both means, time will inform.
Principle 2 – One thing particular to our construct course of is stopping this CPU degradation
Firstly, we make it a coverage to at all times use the most recent out there examined BIOS on all builds. Our means to maneuver swiftly and undertake a brand new BIOS shortly could also be one issue that lowered the severity of the problem in our builds.
We’ve additionally mentioned on this weblog and our website advert nauseum about what makes our construct course of totally different. Our proprietary tuning methods steer clear of over-volting like plenty of fast and soiled strategies utilized by the bigger producers, whereas delivering the world’s finest efficiency. The quickest PC on this planet is value nothing if it’s not steady. That’s why we make investments so closely in cooling and can solely use motherboards with premium VRMs on greater TDP processors just like the i7 and i9s which are reporting issues.
To associate with that, we are going to in uncommon circumstances – and solely when the shopper particularly asks for it – enhance the voltages on a processor past Intel’s beneficial settings. And after we do, it’s with the information that 25+ years expertise will get us to know we’re doing issues proper. Since greater voltages seem like tied to the failures, it’s our working principle that our apply of emphasizing stability is what’s maintaining our PCs operating the place others will not be.
The place will we go from right here?
For now, we’ll proceed to parse by way of any further information that we obtain from Intel and our different {hardware} companions. I do assume we’re nonetheless early within the discovery interval of this challenge and that extra data will proceed to turn out to be out there. Within the meantime, we’re taking the next motion:
We’ll be spending the following few days validating Intel’s newest patches, then start distributing to prospects as relevant. An inventory of latest BIOS’s together with replace directions will probably be out there in our assist portal shortly.
We’ll start implementing up to date BIOS with patch into new builds instantly, making certain that future shipments will not be impacted.
As a result of all of our builds additionally include particular person element warranties, Intel’s 5 complete 12 months prolonged guarantee is totally relevant on all prior shipments. We’ll proceed to work with prospects who want help with any processor associated guarantee points as wanted.
As at all times, you probably have questions or issues, merely contact us any time.
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Josh has been with Velocity Micro since 2007 in numerous Advertising and marketing, PR, and Gross sales associated roles. Because the Director of Gross sales & Advertising and marketing, he’s accountable for all Direct and Retail gross sales in addition to Advertising and marketing actions. He enjoys Seinfeld reruns, the Atlanta Braves, and Beatles songs written by John, Paul, or George. Sorry, Ringo.
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