I hear the issue with these chips is due to CPU ask for voltage that it can not handle. Does this only happen when CPU is handling heavy tasks or it happen as long as you turn on the PC?
It happens faster if you do a lot of heavy tasks on them and it is more likely the better your CPU is. If you’ve mostly done “light” workloads, it should be fine, but then again chances are one of those really heavy workloads you do, like zipping your backup folder, lead to some degradation already.
It is a pure lottery at the moment, and the more you push your CPU the more tickets you receive.
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Hello @worldkeeping, welcome to the L1 forum.
It is really hard to tell, how fast a CPU will degrade. However, I would suggest run a stability test with the Intel XTU software. If there are any issues with your chip, you should contact the Intel support team.
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Heavy single-core workloads, such as game loading screens. Heavy all-core workloads drop voltages and this is purely over-voltage burning up the ring bus or something related.
If I were OP, I would do a BIOS flashback or update BIOS as soon as possible to get the new 0x129 microcode.
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Thank you for all your comments. They are very helpful. I think I need to add some background to why I post this question.
There is a cyberpowerpc desktop in the local store. It’s been on display for about 7 months now. It’s not connected to a monitor. Basically they just turned it on to show fan lights.
It’s $1100 on clearance. Is it worthy buying?
The specs are:
i7-13700fk
Gtx4070
32g ram
2T ssd
Liquid cooling
My main concerns: 1)if that chip is one of Intel’s faulty chips, then 7 months can have a lot of damage on it. 2) I heard cyberpowerpc’s customer service towards failed computer is so so. Also there is an article on the verge states that cyberpowerpc provide 5 year extended warranty for these 13 14 gen CPUs in their PC, but I can’t confirm this information from any other source.
For those specs I would take the risk. Equivalent on the market is about $1300 not counting the PSU or Chassi, more if it is a custom loop: Part List - Intel Core i7-13700KF, GeForce RTX 4070 - PCPartPicker
Given that they probably do not have an OS installed on that thing, it should be fine. Worst case you will have a bust CPU in 12 months or so, at which point you have a good excuse to replace the CPU platform for an AM5 or AM6 system.
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We just had an i9-14900k trade in after 8 months of daily 4k gaming
Overclocked from day one with undervoltage set for stability
6ghz RAM
4090
Works FLAWLESSLY
this same machine ate a 14900k and required an RMA 1 day after the first benchmark
The 14th and 13th gen is a silicon lottery and if it wasn’t professionally overclocked (don’t just set XMP and deploy it), it won’t last.
We had a 13th gen come in for trade in and it could not finish the y cruncher suite.
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Would having a OS installed cause a problem?
If you do not have an OS installed, it will only boot into EFI firmware (aka modern BIOS). The BIOS only use something like 2-3% of the CPU. You can easily run a system on EFI only without a CPU cooler.