am5 got its own problem as well

Do they affect desktop processor only or mobile too?

Just bought a gaming laptop with i5 13500HX for my son. Never crash or anything. Maybe only affect i7 and i9.

Not really. It seems like mobile also affected but currently highly suspect i9 and some i7. No one mentioned i5 though but the increase E cores in HX does worry me a little.

CPU degradation due to excess heat & voltage will affect all to certain levels but on laptops with its poorer heat transfer the effects could happen earlier. This is provided if HX CPU behaves like Ksku where it will ramp above max PBP baseline. As with desktop Ksku my advice would be to manually turn off auto OC and limit PL1 & PL2 to its official max TDP.

Yes and no. The 'fix' will prevent degradation issues on fresh builds or those to be installed (make sure to update bios) as long as you ALSO MUST disable mobo auto OC as it will still break thru the limits set by Intel anyways. Here is what I mean (see timestamp 17:16)


but for those ady with problems, once its broken there is no repair, just RMA it.

13/14Gen nonK dont have these issues...

And AMD also have their own problems

7000series no major issues? Dont believe all the spiel that fanboys tells you


And 9000series delay due to bugs caught the very last minute up to post shipment. What others still not yet found? As you said we dont really know...

There are no "safer" routes. Want safe & proven, go 12Gen or AM4.

It took them months to fix last I heard. And it affects all X3Ds but of course 7800X3D are most affected due to best seller. Well if one can forgive AMD certainly same too for Intel, rite?

depends on publisher,
good publisher like Bethesda who developed Doom series, known for supporting OpenGL at first, then Vulkan rendering support was added later, and all the following games use id Tech 6 and newer have very good performance
Then CDPR released "it just work" game to public, not too bad it still runs like crap, they did keep updating the games.

they collect your system data when crash or probably have telemetry enabled, then optimize accordingly.
Square Enix knows of slow update iirc, most of my Tomb raider games dont get update as much as the other AAA game publisher.

unlike some publisher called ubi kentang lol