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Darren Allan

Intel calms fears over some 13th-gen or 14th-gen buyers missing out on extended warranty for instability issues – now all CPUs are covered, but worries remain

Intel Core i9-13900K in hand.

Intel has decided that the warranty extension the firm announced last week, for chips affected by instability issues, applies to all its 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors, and not just boxed CPUs.

If you recall, when the move, which upped the warranty from three to five years, was made, Intel said it applied to boxed products, but not CPUs that came in prebuilt PCs. (So-called ‘tray’ CPUs, named because they’re supplied in volume, in trays, to PC makers, with no box or packaging – as this isn’t needed, and is an unnecessary cost in this case).

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