Intel has had a rough summer, and now that the brand’s Intel Gamer Days offers have started arriving, you may be asking if it's safe to buy its 13th and 14th Generation CPUs. In the past few months, reports of instability issues began to mount as more gamers and PC builders noticed their machines freezing, shutting down unexpectedly, and generally having bizarre performance issues.
This impacted some of the best CPUs for gaming, including Intel’s flagship 14th Gen ones, and mainly the higher-end 13th Gen chips. Luckily, warranties have now been amended so that any consumer impacted by the faults can claim a new processor that won’t suffer the same issues. Motherboard manufacturers have rolled out fixes in the form of BIOS updates, which will ensure the problems don’t spread to chips that haven’t been affected thus far.
