For months, Intel’s highest-end desktop gaming processors have had a strange tendency — and despite what you might have seen earlier today, Intel says it doesn’t have a final fix for its 13th and 14th Gen Intel Core i9 “Raptor Lake” and “Raptor Lake S” chips just yet. “Contrary to recent media reports, Intel has confirmed root cause and is continuing, with its partners, to investigate user reports regarding instability issues on unlocked Intel Core 13th and 14th generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors,” reads a statement via Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford. It continues: “The microcode patch referenced in press reports fixes an eTVB bug discovered by Intel while investigating the instability reports.
While this issue is potentially contributing to instability, it is not the root cause.” Intel’s official statement references (and partially confirms) . Those documents suggest that part of the problem is how Intel’s chips have been erroneously overclocking their own cores, using a feature called Enhanced Thermal Velocity Boost (eTVB), even when they should have known they were running too hot to do that.
“Root cause is an incorrect value in a microcode algorithm associated with the eTVB feature,” that leaked document began. It continued: But while Intel confirms eTVB was potentially part of the problem, it’s apparently not the “root cause” of the whole issue. Here’s hoping we get a full fix soon.
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