Intel chips can’t possibly be this bad… 100% crash rate?

Intel 13th and 14th gen chips, aka Raptor Lake, have been receiving numerous reports of crashes and instability from gamers and developers. Let's take a look at the recent headwinds facing Intel CPUs.

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[LevelTechs]

Thanks for the shout out and great rundown!

[Cyrila]

AMD: "When your enemy is making a mistake don't interrupt them."

[KRFTWRK]

In their desperation to somehow keep up with AMD, Intel has cranked their chips so much they now burn themselves out. Bravo!

[skurtyyskirts]

I have an i9-14900k and can confirm, this has been a living hell. Web pages randomly crashing, blue screens, and discord dying. This is horrible.

[ristopaasivirta]

Man I need to start doing that error reporting style...
prefix every fatal exception with "User error:"

[thripnixe]

When there's an error when im playing a video game I usually blame Microsoft, now I can blame intel too.

[IsaLang]

Next 15th Gen Intel: "Fire Lake"

[nathanstein]

Intel was dead to me the day they integrated the Intel “management engine” on their chips totally outside of the users control. Even Andrew Tanenbaum, who wrote the OS it was built from, has decried it as thinly veiled spyware.

[someusername]

This has been the best free marketing AMD could've never asked for

[YetAnotherTechRaccoon]

"...a bunch of electrons dance on a rock" is so funny, yet accurate it hurts. Building a processor sounds like the hardest job ever. The resulting product is magic to me.

[cyrylnycz]

Processor ❌ Bunch of electrons jumping around on a rock✅

[melanp]

Been playing WoW for 20 years, never had any significant issues. Until i got an insane gaming pc last year with one of those chips. Nearly had to give up playing, crashing every 5 minutes and spent dozens of hours troubleshooting.
I defintely believe everything that is being said in this video.

[aarona]

This exact thing happened to my brand new 14th Gen i7 laptop I bought for work. The motherboard lasted 2 months. Luckily I bought it from Lenovo and I think they did applied some firmware that declocked the CPU. The tech guy who came to my house to fix it said that they were purposefully overclocking these chips and didn't care that they were going to go bad but didn't think they would start to go bad this quickly.

Hopefully, they'll do a recall on these and I can get my money back if this continues.

[mascot]

Phew, I'm so happy I did not put the sticker on mine.

[bigbocchi]

AMD does nothing.
Its competition keeps shooting itself in the foot.
The best marketing strategy

[ZyfLa]

I personally purchased a 14900k and immediately ran into issues with the video memory issue you mentioned, spent weeks going down insane rabbit holes and replacing everything. Only to find out that the default bios settings essentially cooked my cpu, fast forward to me ordering a 14900kf, undervolting, and using all the recommended power settings provided on intels website... only for the 14900kf to slowly fail over time as well... Intel has pretty much lost me as a customer for a very long time, I've had no issues with either of my AMD systems.

[shimadabr]

How did two generations of processors launch without Intel noticing the issue during QA? I imagined their QAs were very thorough and exhaustive, that is an epic failure.

[laevatein]

This is a crazy vid. Thanks for reporting on this. I started having these issues almost year ago on my 13th gen. Drove me nuts. Thought it was nvdia the whole time but then managed to narrow it down to my CPU. Disabled all my E cores and now finally no more crashing on anything... But thats like a majority of my cpu...

[MetalheadAndNerd]

Just rename them to "Sewage Lake"

[galmud]

Well at least it's not a 110% failure rate. So that's good..