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Darren Allan

Intel admits ‘elevated voltage’ is primary cause of unstable CPUs – and thankfully a fix is coming soon

An Intel Core i9-14900K with its promotional packaging.

Intel has come forward with a statement on the crashing issues with its high-end 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, finally clarifying the cause – or at least the major factor, apparently – and telling affected processor owners that a microcode fix is coming.

Team Blue informs us that ‘elevated operating voltage’ is the cause of instability problems with these processors – mostly Core i9s according to reports, which are the chips that guzzle the most power, of course – based on an extensive analysis of the CPUs that have been sent back to Intel due to this flaw.

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