I've got some bad news if your Cutting Edge gaming rig has an Intel Inside sticker on it it might actually have a ticking Time Bomb inside when we go CPU shopping the most important spec is not the clock speed it's not the number of cores or threads it's not the transistor count and not the cash size the most important thing is actually something we fail to think about the failure rate we don't think about this because modern CPUs rarely fail due to manufacturing defects they're engineered with such a high degree of precision that it makes rocket surgeons look like morons no matter how good your CPU specs are it's all completely pointless if the chip is unstable while Intel's 13th and 14th gen chips can allegedly achieve an impressive 100% failure rate in certain contexts in today's video we'll look at the overflowing stack of problems facing Intel chips and find out if it's time to hit panic mode it is July 15 2024 and you're watching the code report for decades Intel has dominated the CPU chip Market the company was founded in 1968 and gave us the first Dynamic Ram chip in 1970 then released the 4004 in 1971 which was as the first commercial microprocessor that later evolved into the x86 architecture and the company has been printing money ever since but the gravy train on biscuit Wheels is starting to derail a big problem with the 13th and 14th gen Intel CPUs also known as Raptor lake has been building up over the last 6 months and it appears nobody knows exactly what the hell is going on not even Intel itself the first issues appeared back in February when PC Gamers playing games with direct X12 and handbreak started to experience frequent crashes initially the blame was played placed on Nvidia GeForce Graphics drivers but in April Nvidia was like Nao and blamed Intel for GPU vram issues and told users to contact Intel support then rad games which Powers compression in Unreal Engine discovered that high default clock rates and power usage could be leading to Silicon degradation and instability eventually the main fix for this issue was to underclock these CPUs at a lower voltage shortly after motherboard manufacturers began rolling out bios updates with an Intel Baseline profile to provide these weak-ass underclock settings resulting in an estimated 9% performance loss although Intel itself was not recommending these settings directly a couple months later a leaked internal document from Intel is said the root cause of instability was an incorrect value in the micr code algorithm associated with the ETB feature or enhance thermal velocity boost however after the leak Intel denied that this was the root cause but they did admit that it could be a contributing factor in any case a bunch of game devs like alderon which makes an MMO that lets you live out your dream of being a dinosaur relas a bombshell post alleging that 100% of the time these chips will fail every time they fail for end users they fail on Game servers they fail for developers and worst of all they provide misleading error messages about running out of video driver memory even when they have sufficient memory and their prescribed remedy is to have Intel recall these CPUs and refund consumers that's pretty harsh and it's kind of ironic that these dinosaur guys hate Raptor like chips but companies like epic games and rad game tools have also highlighted these issues and an analysis done by Warframe produced this this damning pie chart that showed how it's only the Raptor likee chips that are causing problems to make matters even worse YouTuber level one text analyzed a bunch of Crash Telemetry data from data centers and found that yes indeed there is a huge stability problem with these chips I don't want to spoil the details so check out his video for a full breakdown but obviously we've got a big problem here I've got an Intel chip in my machine thank God it's a 12th gen but I'm going to build a new rig later this year and it's hard to imagine not using an AMD processor at this point luckily though Intel put out a statement that reassured us in tell Bros that they're working on it although the investigation is not easy which as corporate speak for we have no idea what the hell is going on and really I can't blame them because I don't think I could do a better job making a bunch of electrons dance around on a rock this has been the code report thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one