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Jeremy Laird

Intel's 14th Gen CPUs are now so cheap it might be worth rolling the dice on those supposedly solved instability issues

Intel Core i5 14600K inside a Z790 motherboard.

According to Nick, our in-house chip-sniffer extraordinaire, Intel's microcode patches do indeed seem to have solved the voltage spike issues at the root of the 13th and 14th Gen Core CPU instability problem. With that in mind, the sudden price cratering of run-out 14th Gen models, no doubt in anticipation of the arrival of Intel's shiny new Arrow Lake processors, makes for an intriguing development.

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