According to a leaked message seemingly intended for motherboard manufacturers, which was obtained by Igor’s Lab, Intel says the root cause hasn’t been pinpointed yet, but it.
What just happened? Owners of Intel’s latest 13th-gen Raptor Lake or 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors have been complaining about instability issues for a while. Now, the chip giant is finally shedding some light on what’s causing the problems.
According to a leaked message seemingly intended for motherboard manufacturers, which was obtained by Igor’s Lab, Intel says the root cause hasn’t been pinpointed yet, but it has spotted a pattern. The company claims the stability headaches are mostly impacting unlocked, overclockable systems where manufacturers have gone a little overboard disabling safeguards in pursuit of pushing frequencies.
In the notice, Intel states it has «observed the majority of reports of this issue are from users with unlocked/overclock capable motherboards.» It goes on to list some of the specific settings and protection mechanisms that have been switched off on many 600 and 700-series boards, like Current Excursion Protection, thermal velocity boost limits, C-state disabling, and jacking up power limits beyond recommended specs.
