While the absolute number of crashes may be modest (it’s not clear from the article), this is the kind of thing that gives you pause with respect to buying a Intel CPU in a DIY context.
Intel clearly went past a reasonable tuning limit and it is likely many people are not running the latest BIOS that addresses this issue. Even many DIY PCs do not leverage OC’d memory or BIOS updates.
BIOS update are also dishonest because they impose limits on the CPUs for valid reliability reasons, but benchmarks are done initially without these limits.
Buying Intel for desktops in the last 5 years was kind of a gamble, I never did that, only AMD since Thunderbird (didn’t buy desktop CPUs from 2009 to 2020), but they had so many issues on so many fronts that you should only buy them if you need a feature not offered by AMD.
While the absolute number of crashes may be modest (it’s not clear from the article), this is the kind of thing that gives you pause with respect to buying a Intel CPU in a DIY context.
Intel clearly went past a reasonable tuning limit and it is likely many people are not running the latest BIOS that addresses this issue. Even many DIY PCs do not leverage OC’d memory or BIOS updates.
BIOS update are also dishonest because they impose limits on the CPUs for valid reliability reasons, but benchmarks are done initially without these limits.
Buying Intel for desktops in the last 5 years was kind of a gamble, I never did that, only AMD since Thunderbird (didn’t buy desktop CPUs from 2009 to 2020), but they had so many issues on so many fronts that you should only buy them if you need a feature not offered by AMD.