Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen CPUs are going to need a little more thermal headroom to perform at their best.
It’s clear that Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs aren’t far away (especially if recent retail listings are any indicator). Presumably that also means Intel’s motherboard partners are readying their boards for the impending launch. This definitely seems to be the case for MSI, which recently released a BIOS update with a new feature seemingly intended for 14th Gen chips, dubbed CPU Fast Throttle Threshold. This entry simply lifts the throttling temperature, and that may give us a hint as to what we can expect with the Raptor Lake Refresh.
It’s all but confirmed thanks to leaked benchmarks and retail listings that 14th Gen CPUs will feature higher clock speeds than their 13th Gen predecessors, and the Core i9-14900K will apparently clock in at 6GHz like the Core i9-13900KS.
