News Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing errors — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; fix coming by mid-August

[ThomasKinsley]

So, they think they've found the cause and a solution, but they're going to just let this problem fester for another month before a solution can realistically get into the hands of end users??

I thought that was odd too, but this part of their statement jumped out:

"We are continuing validation to ensure that scenarios of instability reported to Intel regarding its Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors are addressed."

That tells me Intel may have discovered multiple bad voltage requests happening, so they're examining all information to ensure they've stamped out every bad request.

 

[hotaru251]

If the problem is on microcode, motherboard type does not matter.

i know that, but what i am saying is even if it was requesting more than mb said in non oc mb's even elevated voltages wouldnt likely push it past an oc voltage that runs stable.

eli5: if ur running an 8 which is default, the error asks for 9 and an oc asks for 10 then even if you getting more than you want it shouldnt have an impact on non oc'd chips as they have plenty of headroom.

 

[umeng2002_2]

I thought it was the cache or the interconnect between CPU and cache that was burning out?

That might be a whole other problem. Or it could contribute to their initial VID table being wrong.

Rusting CPU vias is a feature, not a bug. No one informed the firmware team that the chips are supposed to rust.

 

[jeremyj_83]

Maybe they are searching a way to not hurt performance

With Zen 5 coming out at the end of the month they don't want their CPUs to lose performance. They know reviews are less likely to retest in August so delaying helps them too

 

[JRStern]

Fix this, and see what else, LOL.