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Intel's woes with Core i9 CPUs crashing look worse than we thought

YouTuber highlights further concerns uncovered via game crash logs and more besides

Intel ’s problems with unstable 13th-gen and 14th-gen high-end CPUs appear to run deeper than we thought, and a new YouTube video diving into these gremlins will do little to calm any fears that buyers of Raptor Lake Core i9 processors (and its subsequent refresh) have. Level1Techs notes that one data center supplier is charging much more to support the Intel CPU-powered systems it’s deploying, compared to AMD, as it has seen an “unusually high” level of problems that needed to be tackled by taking measures such as disabling efficiency cores – or even having to replace chips entirely. Trust in Intel is going to fade rapidly if this isn’t tackled in a more thorough manner than Team Blue has managed so far, and that’ll leave Arrow Lake in a very tricky spot as it launches – and tries to secure its place in our ranking of the best CPUs against an apparently strong next-gen Ryzen rival.

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