The Intel i9 and i7 series suffer from serious stability problems. It seems that the solution is on the way, but not everyone will be happy about it.
22.04.2024 – In recent weeks, there have been really ominous news about Intel processors. The i7 and i9 processors were mainly affected by these posts. The Intel i7-13700K/14700K and i9-13900K/14900K series suffer from serious stability issues. Many people did not even suspect the CPUs in the first instance, as games and applications complained about the video memory. Then in April you Nvidia also confirmed itthat this will surely be Intel’s fault. It became clear already in the first period that we can talk about a much more complex problem here.
International technology sites and the community have also recommended gamers to try to lower the clock rates of Intel processors. In the majority of cases, this solved the freezes immediately, a decrease of 0.1-0.2 GHz was enough. At that time, many people began to turn to the motherboard manufacturers, as they believe that the manufacturers’ settings unnecessarily burden the processors. There may be a great deal of truth in this as well, since motherboard manufacturers are not used to tinkering with these. This theory is further strengthened by the fact that ASUS came up with a new profile to fix the freezes.
The new Intel profile causes serious performance degradation
The new Intel profile
In the new profile, ASUS MultiCore Enhancement was immediately turned off, which had done its job automatically in all cases until now. The HardwareLuxx team also tested how much performance degradation comes with the quick repair. Let’s see:
| Intel Core i9-14900K results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| HardwareLuxx | ASUS MultiCore Enhancements PL1: 253W, PL2: 4095W | Intel Baseline Profile PL1: 253W, PL2: 253W | Difference |
| Cinebnech R23 Monofilament | 2341 pts | 2322 pts | -1% |
| Cinebnech R23 Multifilament | 40848 pts | 37197 pts | -9% |
| Blender | 137.70 s | 149.96 s | -8% |
| Y-Cruncher | 8,645 s | 9,739 s | -11% |
| Control (720p, High) average | 228.3 FPS | 228.0 FPS | 0% |
| F1 2023 (720p, Ultra) Avg | 265.2 FPS | 243.3 FPS | -8% |
| Shadow of Tomb Raider (720p, Ultra) average | 357.4 FPS | 328.5 FPS | -8% |
| Starfield (720p, High) average | 164.1 FPS | 151.3 FPS | -8% |
| Consumption | 316 W | 253 W | -20% |
| Tension | 1.236 V | 1.229 V | -1% |
| VRM | 214 A | 195 A | -9% |
| CPU temperature | 101 °C | 89 °C | -12% |
It is clearly visible that the stability is accompanied by an 8-10% performance degradation even during applications and games. Of course, we can still talk about powerful processors, but many people may be disappointed if every manufacturer delivers this repair, since that is not what they paid for. After that, the only thing left is manual “tuning” if users want to get everything out of the chips.
Source: Video cardz
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