Skip Navigation
Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica
  • I was having issues with crashes in multiple games but rdr2 was the worst. I had a rig built with an i9 14900k and Asus hero z790.

    I think I finally found the solution and it was to do with the default bios settings for my Asus MB and my i9 14900k.

    In the document linked here...

    https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/743844/13th-generation-intel-core-and-intel-core-14th-generation-processors-datasheet-volume-1-of-2.html

    Page 98, Table 17, Row 3: Reveals the stock turbo power limits for the 13900K and 14900K CPUs are 253W, not the 4,000+ my MB's Bios settings default to. Page 184, Table 77, Row 6: Lists the maximum current limit at 307A, far below the MB's default of 500+A.

    I found this information in a Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/1axepvu/optimizing_stability_for_intel_13900k_and_14900k/) and followed the settings as follows:

    ASUS Z790 Motherboards:

    Save your current settings into a profile so you can return to them later if you want.

    Reset your BIOS to default settings. Ai Tweaker tab:

    Disable MultiCore Enhancement.

    Enable XMP(if your RAM supports it).

    Set SVID behavior to Typical Scenario.

    Set short duration turbo power = 253

    Set long duration turbo power = 253

    Set max core/cache current = 307Amps

    Doing this immediately stabilised the CPU temps as well as bring down the average temp by ~10 to 15c. It's been a few months now with zero crashes.

    Hope this helps someone

  • Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone
  • If I see your company or app advertised on windows 11, you can be sure I will be actively avoiding said company/ App. Even if I need the services advertised, I will be looking for an alternative just because.

  • Where Labour and the Tories got their money from in 2023
  • Of the £44.5m in cash received by the Conservatives last year, more than £20m came from two sources: John Sainsbury and Frank Hester, an IT entrepreneur from Leeds who has given £5m personally and another £5m through his firm, The Phoenix Partnership. Hester’s firm has profited from public sector contracts and his ties with the party are under heightened scrutiny following the publication of an investigation by the Guardian that revealed he had said former Labour MP Diane Abbott made him “want to hate all black women” and should be shot.

    A further £11.3m came from five individuals:

    Mohamed Mansour, Egyptian-born billionaire who controls the behemoth conglomerate Mansour Group, which has interests in real estate, finance, retail and tech: £5m
    Graham Edwards, co-founder of one of the largest private companies in the UK, Telereal Trillium, which owns thousands of properties and approximately 60 million square feet of land: £2m
    Amit Lohia, son of billionaire petrochemical and fertiliser tycoon Sri Prakash Lohia, chair of Indorama: £2m
    Christopher Barry Wood, founder of biotech firm Medannex: £1.3m
    Alan Howard, hedge fund manager who co-founded Jersey-based Brevan Howard and has significant interests in crypto-currency: £1m
    
  • Looking for emotional game recommendations
  • The last of us 1 and then 2. There are video games and then there's TLoU p1&2. If you can, play 1 on pc. The controls aren't great in 1 (IMHO) but kb&m made that so much better. P2 they made the controls much better. It's a more fun game to play in my experience with less frustrating sections, and whilst people prefer 1 or flat out don't like 2, I think the drivers for that aren't to do with the story or game not being good, in fact, I would say p2 is the best story driven game I've ever played (better than rdr2 which I loved and is another one you should consider, 1 and 2 actually). People will just not like 1 specific thing or another (there are lots of small things in the game that certain people will have issue with, you'll understand when you play it) and then because of that 1 thing say the whole thing is bad. People that complain are often louder than those who praise.

  • Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak
  • He was a barrister who spent most of his legal career working on human rights issues. My hope is that everything Kier says or does, that may suggest any similarity or alignment to Tory policy, is to minimise focus of right wing media and the last 20% of people who still support the current Tory establishment. Fingers crossed anyway.

  • Should I get a PS5?
  • If the cost of the console is worth having the ps exclusives for you, then go for it. For me, it's the exclusives. I've also got my deck set up to remote play the ps5 so can play where ever, which is nice.

  • Bungie confirms Destiny 2: The Final Shape delay to summer 2024
  • I've been playing since d1 launched. I stopped a while back and dip in and out with each expansion but hate that I find myself not knowing what's what. I've held off on lightfall, given the reviews. Should I bother at £15 in the sale, or say my goodbye's?

  • InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)GU
    GuStJaR @lemmy.world
    Posts 0
    Comments 45