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1.0 out of 5 starsWill be dead on arrival or degrade over months
Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024
My first review ever. Intel has finally acknowledged this issue, search "Regarding Reports of 13th/14th Gen Unlocked Desktop Users Experiencing Stability Issues" on google.
For me, worked great for about a month, then slowly started experiencing stability issues. Games would crash and get an occasional blue screen. After about 6 months, there were noticeable stability issues, with many games unable to boot past main menu, causing blue screen on launch, or experiencing frequent crashes. Friends in separate friend groups would always comment on my computer issues, showing bugs and crashes that have no apparent causes.
After a year, my PC can only run super smash brothers melee with stability and even chrome tabs are crashing now. Discord has to be run on chrome because the app crashes every 10 seconds, I can't play any games. I had dedicated tens of hours into investigating only to realize it's been the CPU all along. I also had to upgrade my motherboard to accommodate this CPU and now I have to investigate if this CPU has caused irreparable damage to the motherboard. I expect Intel will be facing heavy financial losses due to influx of warranties as the issues become more and more public.
Please look up "Intel 13th and 14th Gen stability" for more info, or "Intel Raptor Lake stability" on Google for further cases. Unacceptable for a company worth over $100B to push out a product like this.