Discussion Arrow Lake and Stability

[jnjnilson6]

Hello!

Do you think that the numerous recent rumors purporting Arrow Lake instability (for example: https://www.xda-developers.com/arrow-lake-reportedly-has-instability-issues/) are valid and truthful? Do you think that would be an impactful negative or that with microcode revisions all will be swiped under the rug and the true performance of the components would be stable, exact and worthwhile? Would such revisions clear up everything or do you think buyers ought to be concerned?

I am not going to be buying Arrow Lake CPUs myself, yet I've created this discussion because the topic seems interesting. Thank you!

 

[USAFRet]

Hello!

Do you think that the numerous recent rumors purporting Arrow Lake instability (for example: https://www.xda-developers.com/arrow-lake-reportedly-has-instability-issues/) are valid and truthful? Do you think that would be an impactful negative or that with microcode revisions all will be swiped under the rug and the true performance of the components would be stable, exact and worthwhile? Would such revisions clear up everything or do you think buyers ought to be concerned?

I am not going to be buying Arrow Lake CPUs myself, yet I've created this discussion because the topic seems interesting. Thank you!

Too early to tell.

 

[Eximo]

I would say early release reviews will end up getting new BIOS for the boards at the last minute which seems to be the trend. Or that already happened and there wasn't time to retest before publishing. Can't really trust the early stuff.

New CPU, some games and game anti-cheat will have issues. Happened with e-cores after all. Maybe these new P cores look weird to some applications, or the BIOS they tested with didn't have the right security features available that some games now require.

Engineering samples could be what some of these insiders were messing with as well.