Intel CPUs (13th & 14th) Catastrophic Failre

[ionic bronze]

So I'm looking for a new laptop and I ask my friend if I should go with an AMD or Intel. He staunchy dissuaded me from Intel, saying that the new chips were experiencing some pretty huge failures, whereby "they will randomly die and possibly kill other parts along with themselves." He said "the 12th gens suffer from the same problem but they don't spontaneously combust." Most of the cool laptops I'm finding have 13th or 14th gen CPUs in them. Is this flaw real? Has it been fixed or does it still persist?

[buoyant robin]

I remember there was some talk about intels CPU’s having an issue with slowly degrading overtime because of power management issue in the processor. That was back in August I think? Would have to do more research to be able to tell if it persists however.

Looking into it a bit more, what I seem to find is it affected processors with a base power of 65W or higher. Supposedly there were some patches sent out to fix the issue.

[errant plume]

I think your friend is blowing it up really.

I have a laptop with an overclocked 14900HX, just make sure to fully update the system and BIOS, and if you're still a bit scared, you can undervolt the CPU.

Not to mention without the latest BIOS update the CPUs do Harakiri themselves, but they don't bring other components with them, I don't know where your friend got that from.

[worn minnow]

The issues with intel were primarally with desktop CPUs, not laptop ones. While the faliure rate were way higher then they should have been, statistically you are likely to be unaffected

[errant plume]

Still, update the BIOS

[earnest geyser]

13th and 14th gen chips were extremely unstable untill very recent even once the issue was fixed 13th and 14th gen intel cpus draw insane amounts of power for the performance they give

But the issue has been atleast fixed now

[buoyant robin]

Bear in mind you should always supplement the advice given to you with actual research, people can help but it’s always good to confirm what they say is true. I could have been straight up lying to you lol.

[earnest geyser]

If you are going to get an intel laptop you wanna be aiming for one with the core 200v series CPUs

Kinda the best laptop CPU arround

[ionic bronze]

Thanks for the info, fellas!

[clear mason]

Given that Intel just recently released the proper software fix for their hardware flaw, I would restrain from getting a laptop with an Intel chip.
"Spontaneous combustion" and "taking other parts with it" are really exaggerated and the most that could happen is instability under load and after some time instability in general.

Ya know what, given Intel just released their low-power generation I can kinda recommend that.
Otherwise, if you value any battery life at all, go AMD with one of the laptops with something like an 780 integrated GPU

[earnest geyser]

I can recomend lunar lake

im not sure how Arrow lake behaves in laptops yet it might not have the same balls to the wall efficiency lunar lake has its arcitecturally slightly different

though if they carry over the same behaviour lunar lake has of being absurdly efficient at low powers then they might actually be the goto laptop chip of choice for gaming laptops

[clear mason]

yeah