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Intel chip failures confirmed
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- Title
- Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage
- Authors
- Gamers Nexus
- Duration
- 26:56
- Published
- Jul 24 2024
Thiiiis is pretty awful for them. I’d read the rumors it might be oxidation issues but this is going to be brutal for them to deal with.
And that’s before getting into their actual handling of this issue over the last few years. I can’t imagine that a data center is going to risk getting intel CPUs right now, and that entire generations secondary market is just poisoned.
Welp… I guess I wait and see what happens to mine.
Well on the one hand, the goodish news is that if you're not using them in something heavy like a data center, you'll probably not fully notice the failures/it'll just knock a few years off your chip....probably.
And there's a chance that some of these can be saved via the code changes that should be coming (not the oxidation ones, those are screwed).
On the other hand, it's fucking absurd we still don't have a timeframe or serial number lookup for this. You better be damn sure if intel has any chips sold to the gov/military they're going to be providing them with that info, so there's no way they don't know. The only question is if the issue is they're still figuring out the full scale of the fuckup, but that's even worse.
Just watched this video myself. I think someone at Intel knows the date range and thus could make a lookup table, but they are hoping it's not going to cause every one in that range to fail so they are hoping they can just RMA the few that people in the know pull out of their machines.
I render out high end 3D and 2D animations which sometimes can run hours and hours. Would I fall into that bucket?
Not necessarily . Obviously it’s a scale. On the one end you have the average user who’s just browsing the web, and on the other you have heavy render farms or data centers that are basically running at peak capacity constantly.
You’d certainly be closer to the higher end than the average user though.
That said do you use your cpu to render or your gpu?
2D work relies on my CPU mostly, while the 3D stuff pulls more from the GPU
You definitely are a bit higher risk. If you start to see any signs of damage (Blue screens, freezes on Windows) I would RMA it. You deserve a working, long term product. You paid for it.
I was surprised to see that there was already an update more than a month ago for my mobo. Additionally, it looks like the new microcode update was published a few weeks ago too
I would not be surprised if some Motherboard vendors tried to get out ahead of this, but the microcode update to prevent further damage has not happened yet, and is targeted for mid August
1st I am hearing about this so big ol' FUBAR! TY to who posted it! Wow! Just wow!!
If you are comfortable doing so, would recommend updating your motherboard BIOS. Might help save your CPU. Definitely follow manufacturer or SI advice on that though