Intel Core "Special Edition" Owners' Club

[fevgatos]

GN just interviewed Wendell. I must say, the issue is much worse than I imagined. Thankfully, I have not experienced any major stability issues with my personal sample. Hopefully Intel will get to the bottom of this. If they end up doing a hardware revision, though, I expect 13th Gen chips that are RMA'd to be replaced by 14th Gen equivalents on the updated stepping.

According to the video 50% of the CPUs experience these issues. The problem is, as an end user (and according to the data he provided) you'll only see an issue (crash / restart) once every 336 hours or something. For a normal user that would translate to basically once every couple of months, so it's really hard to notice and pinpoint it to the cpu I guess.

The "good" thing - since they have tried lowering clockspeeds etc and that still doesn't fix the issue, it's means it has nothing to do with the CPUs being pushed? Hard to tell at this point but it looks like a hardware error?

 

[Vario]

According to the video 50% of the CPUs experience these issues. The problem is, as an end user (and according to the data he provided) you'll only see an issue (crash / restart) once every 336 hours or something. For a normal user that would translate to basically once every couple of months, so it's really hard to notice and pinpoint it to the cpu I guess.

The "good" thing - since they have tried lowering clockspeeds etc and that still doesn't fix the issue, it's means it has nothing to do with the CPUs being pushed? Hard to tell at this point but it looks like a hardware error?

One decent thing was after all the press coverage on this, I decided to check my overclock profile again and noticed my VSSA (System Agent) had been set to auto, which meant the board was supplying something like 1.38V, rather than an undervolted setting, so I changed it 1.0V.

 

[Dr. Dro]

I got the Encore yesterday. Spent most of the afternoon on cable management for my rig, but here she is. Unfortunately while pretty my new case doesn't fit the EVGA Nu Audio, or even the support bracket i purchased for my 4080... thankfully there doesn't seem to be any sagging going on. Most I'll do to this build is install some exhaust fans for the summer. No rush, though.

Not that I'm surprised, but turns out my 13900KS is a painfully average sample. SP 108, P-core 118, E-core 89, MC 76. Not bad, not exceptional, right in the middle of the bell curve if we're to go by the Igor's Lab sample data. It's the standard "silver sample" and for what I want out of it, that's just fine. I've already gotten what i wanted out of the memory kit in my very first try as well. It had a great baseline profile for Hynix A 7600 memory and my kit loved it, just needed a little adjustment to the usual suspect tertiaries and tREFI. I got 7600 C36 37000% karhu stable, with 1.2V SA and 1.425V on DRAM voltage. Didn't spend much time getting the volts as low as they can go yet but I'm already satisfied with the current results. Massive improvement over the Ace in this regard.