13th and 14th gen Intel processors are defective.

[Brons2]

Is that a laptop?

I thought it was 8 performance 4 efficient for 12 cores?

Yes, it's a laptop, Dell Precision 3570.

 

[Brons2]

64 is fine, but unless you're doing a lot of rendering, it's pointless. Of course, I have no clue what you use your PC for so it may be necessary. I run 32gb of 5600ms DDR5 and it's sufficient, more than.

I have 64GB on the aforementioned Dell Precision 3570 and even with 2-3 VMs running it's smooth as silk. It's worth the extra money just to know that RAM will never be your limiting factor on performance.

 

[Ws6]

Call of Duty kept crashing on mine with 32gb. Upgraded to 64gb and works flawlessly now. Not pointless at all.

What ram do you have that cod crashed it with 32gb?

 

[jcy]

64 is fine, but unless you're doing a lot of rendering, it's pointless. Of course, I have no clue what you use your PC for so it may be necessary. I run 32gb of 5600ms DDR5 and it's sufficient, more than.

do you know about virtualization?

 

[I<3oil]

What ram do you have that cod crashed it with 32gb?

I don't know the complete specs off hand but it's G.skill DDR4 3600 I've had for a few years. My buddy also had same issue with Warzone. Upgrading from 32gb to 64gb cleared up the game crashing, per my own situation and recommendation. He tried 3 different sets of ram, new gpu, reseating/repasting CPU, and even a new CPU cooler to troubleshoot. The only thing that worked was going from 32 -> 64

 

[Ws6]

do you know about virtualization?

I mean, that's super niche to me, but yeah, you need 3x the ram to run 3x the process, I'd prssume.

 

[KrisZ]

Intel better recovers from this mess and I don't mean that as a defense of them, but as a consumer wanting good products. If AMD pulls ahead significantly, we will see another long period of total stagnation, like the old quad processors, before Intel catches up. I hope it will not come to this.

 

[Merek]

Is this the same as the video I watched from JayTwoCents? Basically all the motherboard manufacturers are not using Intel's default settings but are tweaking them on their own. I'm currently using an MSI board w/ i3-14100 which I don't believe was an affected CPU as it's just a standard quad core w/ HT 4/8. I typically don't use beta versions of the BIOS but have updated it a few times. I eventually want to upgrade to the i7-14700k or i9-14900k.

Basically in the video Jay was talking about how CPUs were getting burned out due to the incorrect settings that all the board manufacturers were using. Intel has specific settings that are supposed to be used.

 

[Merek]

Seems like it's actually a separate issue, the one I mentioned was fixed by MSI back in May where they replaced their own default "tweaked" settings with Intel specs. There have been updates to the cpu microcode: 0x125 & 0x129. I missed a few versions since I updated it back then but the last update was the latest version and it's not a beta. The bios isn't something that I keep updated but typically skip over the beta for the final versions.