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13th Gen Intel stuff

Soldato
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What is it that's killing them?

I've just picked up a i5-13500 which, when running BIOS defaults will happily sit at 65w according to HWMonitor, with a brief stint at 135w when you initially kick Cinebench in.
I've got a beta BIOS on there with the new 0x129 microcode, which apparently fixes whatever issues there are, with that installed and the BIOS set to the 'Intel Performance' setting, rather than the defaults, it seems to run at 135w happily for the entire 10 minute Cinebench run and doesn't go above 71oC...

I'm guessing that sticking over 50% of its rated 65w wont be great for it, so will most likely knock off the overboost or whatever it is doing it, but it got me thinking what the actual issue is with these things...
 
Ok, so we've not had enough info from Intel to narrow down a particular set of 'things' that will cause a certain batch or chip from a certain fab to die then, typical..
I've just come from a 5800x to a 13500, just built a machine for a mates kid with a 13600KF in it and another machine that seemed to be throwing random BSOD's out running a 14900K that keeps coming back to me from another mates kid...
 
My 13500 runs pretty cool tbh, in Cinebench at least, I'm about to do a reinstall of Windows 11 and then I'll see whats what on the CPU front.
At the mo PL1 is 252w, PL2 300w, temps are low 70's, so would presume it has more headroom, but I've spent the last good while on AMD so are more used to PBO stuff than whatever Intels auto boosty stuff is or does...
 
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