For months, Intel’s highest-end desktop gaming processors have had an odd tendency to sometimes make video games crash — and regardless of what you may need seen earlier in the present day, Intel says it doesn’t have a last repair for its thirteenth and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake S” chips simply but.
“Opposite to latest media stories, Intel has not confirmed root trigger and is constant, with its companions, to analyze person stories relating to instability points on unlocked Intel Core thirteenth and 14th technology (Ok/KF/KS) desktop processors,” reads a press release through Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford.
It continues: “The microcode patch referenced in press stories fixes an eTVB bug found by Intel whereas investigating the instability stories. Whereas this situation is doubtlessly contributing to instability, it’s not the foundation trigger.”
Intel’s official assertion references (and partially confirms) leaked inner Intel paperwork obtained by Igor’s Lab earlier in the present day. These paperwork recommend that a part of the issue is how Intel’s chips have been erroneously overclocking their very own cores, utilizing a function known as Enhanced Thermal Velocity Enhance (eTVB), even when they need to have identified they have been working too scorching to do this.
“Root trigger is an incorrect worth in a microcode algorithm related to the eTVB function,” that leaked doc started. It continued:
Failure Evaluation (FA) of thirteenth and 14th Era Ok SKU processors signifies a shift in minimal working voltage on affected processors ensuing from cumulative publicity to elevated core voltages. Intel® evaluation has decided a confirmed contributing issue for this situation is elevated voltage enter to the processor as a result of earlier BIOS settings which permit the processor to function at turbo frequencies and voltages even whereas the processor is at a excessive temperature. Earlier generations of Intel® Ok SKU processors have been much less delicate to those kind of settings as a result of decrease default working voltage and frequency.
Intel® requests all clients to replace BIOS to microcode 0x125 or later by 7/19/2024.
This microcode contains an eTVB repair for a difficulty which can permit the processor to enter the next efficiency state even when the processor temperature has exceeded eTVB thresholds.
However whereas Intel confirms eTVB was doubtlessly a part of the issue, it’s apparently not the “root trigger” of the entire situation.
Right here’s hoping we get a full repair quickly.
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