13th and 14th gen Intel processors had manufacturing contamination resulting in oxydation.
This means your chip was physically rusting from the inside-out.
Their coding for how motherboards were calibrating voltage had several problems. The CPUs were pushed too hard to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in premature degradation ( you could tell by the wildly higher power demands and heat of Intel chips vs AMD ). They also had weird voltage jumps that took Intel months and months to gradually fix, which also caused premature degradation.
Upgrading your motherboard's BIOS today should fix the voltage problems.
It cannot fix the oxydation problems. It will happen to all CPUs that had manufacturing contamination. There should have been a recall of all affected chips, but there wasen't for some reason.
TL;DR : Intel claims they fixed all these problems. They have lied for years about these problems existing, then about having fixed those. Fuck Intel's CPUs.
P.S. : If you have an Intel's 13th or 14th gen CPU that underperforms or has stability problems, request a replacement to Intel due to known oxydation and previous voltage-regulation caused degradation. In most jurisdictions, Intel cannot just tell you ''warranty's expired'' and refuse to replace a defective product they distributed. A CPU is not supposed to die after a few years. It's supposed to vastly outlast the computer it's in becoming obsolete 10+years later.
If they refuse, tell them you will fill a complaint to your jurisdiction's consumer protection agency and file a small-claims court claim, which Intel will lose. That should make them cave.
13th and 14th gen Intel processors had manufacturing contamination resulting in oxydation.
This means your chip was physically rusting from the inside-out.
Their coding for how motherboards were calibrating voltage had several problems. The CPUs were pushed too hard to try to one-up AMD in benchmarks, resulting in premature degradation ( you could tell by the wildly higher power demands and heat of Intel chips vs AMD ). They also had weird voltage jumps that took Intel months and months to gradually fix, which also caused premature degradation.
Upgrading your motherboard's BIOS today should fix the voltage problems.
It cannot fix the oxydation problems. It will happen to all CPUs that had manufacturing contamination. There should have been a recall of all affected chips, but there wasen't for some reason.
TL;DR : Intel claims they fixed all these problems. They have lied for years about these problems existing, then about having fixed those. Fuck Intel's CPUs.
P.S. : If you have an Intel's 13th or 14th gen CPU that underperforms or has stability problems, request a replacement to Intel due to known oxydation and previous voltage-regulation caused degradation. In most jurisdictions, Intel cannot just tell you ''warranty's expired'' and refuse to replace a defective product they distributed. A CPU is not supposed to die after a few years. It's supposed to vastly outlast the computer it's in becoming obsolete 10+years later.
If they refuse, tell them you will fill a complaint to your jurisdiction's consumer protection agency and file a small-claims court claim, which Intel will lose. That should make them cave.
Ah, that’s what it was. Thanks for explaining.
Shame the replacement requirement wasn’t around back when Nvidia had the problem with the 8600M.