Intel: Stability problems for 13th and 14th Gen CPUs are caused by motherboard makers – Computer – News

It actually seems like Steve from HuB didn’t really pay attention to that, he indeed quotes 2 screenshots from an interview a few years ago with an Intel Engineer by Ian Cutress, who was still working at Anand at the time.

However, that engineer clearly indicates in the answers that overclocking (whether or not out of the box by the motherboard makers) is not allowed, but that it is within spec if the motherboard makers set PL2 (boost power limit) and Tau (how long, in seconds , may boost a CPU) adapt to CPUs longer to be boosted. With emphasis on longerthe other boost values ​​may not be adjusted, this is also clearly stated in the quote.

Screenshot 1 in the HuB video: YouTube: Intel CPUs Are Crashing & It’s Intel’s Fault: Intel Baseline Profile…
Screenshot 2 in the HuB video: YouTube: Intel CPUs Are Crashing & It’s Intel’s Fault: Intel Baseline Profile…

What Steve may be missing, however, is that motherboard makers nowadays adjust much more than just Tau and PL2, but even disable protections that are intended to prevent a CPU from sustaining damage. But also, for example, things like enabling multicore enhancements, XMP profiles (which is overclocking in itself), which adjust much more than just the memory profile on certain boards, etc.

the TLDR of those 2 screenshots seems to be correct: ‘Adjusting PL2 and Tau to make boosts last longer is in spec, but adjusting other values ​​does not’.

For example, if you look at Igor: https://www.igorslab.de/e…instability-issue-update/

Then you also see that Intel makes a 2 division, things that should not be adjusted by default, but that they do see being adjusted by the motherboard makers and things that could potentially influence stability if those kinds of changes are implemented.

See this screenshot that I made about it yesterday, in red the things that Intel sees in the statement as possible causes, and in blue the things that may negatively affect stability if things are not in order in red: https://imgur .com/od6Khtf