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14th Gen "Raptor Lake Refresh"
- Thread starter Dave2150
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There is/was certainly an issue, but it seems to have been resolved by a combination of bios updates and possibly some updates pushed via windows update.
Undervolting will further add a layer of protection, although the newer bioses may well have voltage limits on them anyway, I'm unsure about that.
Also it's unclear just how widespread it was - the usual youtubers were certainly suffering from the typical hysteria though, I think!
I don't think I'd buy a second hand one as you don't know it's history, but other than that I wouldn't be too worried.
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There was a certain amount of rhetoric to my post - some people/sources were making out like these CPUs were and would be dropping like flies, but the data so far shows the 14th gen overall having lower failure rates at retail than the AMD 7000 series.
Seems to me like some disgruntled ex-Intel staff, with the timeline vs the Intel lay-offs, have taken some real, but not major, issues and blown them up into a "catastrophic" problem and a lot of the YouTubers got played.
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Not sure the gigabyte has any bios updates as certified with v1.0 I could not find any other updates on website ,also is HW monitor a free application.
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Yes it's free- it's a well known monitoring software:
HWMONITOR | Softwares | CPUID
HWMonitor for Windows® x86/x64 is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, powers, currents, fans speed, utilizations, clock speeds ... The program handles : CPU and GPU-level hardware monitoring...
www.cpuid.com