re: raptor lake ‘issues’
this one is a 14th gen on an asus board. less than a year old, i think. constant crashes and other ‘quirks’. system builder (wasn’t my purchase decision) is known to be a pain to deal with on warranty service. so we’ll see what happens.
the first was a 13th gen xps. problems from first boot up. dell was great on addressing intel’s issue. swapped the board and chip, and it had a brand-spankin’-new firmware that wasn’t even pushed to their website yet. paid freight both ways, including priority overnight air return.
I had my 13th gen RMA’d and they gave me a 14th gen, and I’ve had it undervolted since day one. I just hope this doesn’t happen for a long long time yet.
Yeah, 14th gens you have to explicitly configure to undervolt or underclock (or both :( ), and until you do you’re just rolling the dice every time they spin up. I got lucky with mine and found the settings that were both safe and it liked before it failed 3 death saves, but with the way it was behaving I wouldn’t be surprised if it was on 2 of 3.
the one here was running the original firmware, probably factory original from asus. the board was on a ‘performance’ preset setting–and defaulted to that when i tried a bios reset to defaults. when i updated the firmware, that setting changed to a ‘normal’ one when i reset to defaults again.
i didn’t really dig into that too much because i knew it was already an rma case, but i think part of it had to do with boosted power draw. it still crashed on ‘normal’ and that’s what it was set on when i ran intel’s diagnostics (which took a few tries just to have it not crash before finishing with a result).