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Nick Evanson

PC repair shop discovers Corsair is selling Intel 14th Gen gaming rigs without all of the instability and voltage fixes, and there's no way around the problem

As it has been 11 months since Intel released its ultimate fix for Core 13th/14th Gen voltage and instability problems, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it surely must be safe to buy any prebuilt gaming PC with a Core i7 14700 or Core i9 14900 processor. However, the findings of one US repair shop suggest that this might not be the case, because at least two Corsair models don't have all of the fixes, and there's no way for owners to apply them.

That's according to Matt's Computer Services on YouTube, which says that a $5,000 Corsair gaming rig, with a Core i7 14700KF, had been submitted to the repair shop three times, due to crashing in games. The host of the video explains that, having gone through every possible check and attempt at solving the problem (including usual things such as reinstalling Windows and trying a more powerful PSU), the issues persisted.

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