How Deep Does The Rabbit Hole Go? Intel’s 14th & 13th Gen CPU Instability Issues Analysis: GamersNexus Analyzes Potential “Oxidation” Issues With Silicon, No Thermal Failure & More

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Intel's 14th & 13th Gen CPU instability issues have existed for more than a year but while Intel has yet to give a solid reasoning for the problems, others have come up with potential causes of the silicon degradation and crashing issues associated with these chips.

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The crashes, instability, and performance issues present in Intel's 14th Gen & 13th Gen CPUs are bothering several consumers out there to the point where it is unbearable, and the community is now determined to switch towards alternatives, such as offerings from AMD.

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So far, here's the timeline of Intel's 14th & 13th Gen Instability issues:

• [Dec 2022] The first instances of "Out of Video Memory" issues on 13th Gen Core i9 CPUs were reported back in 2022. (Source: Reddit). This is a few months after the release of Intel's 13th Gen CPUs & RTX 40 GPUs.
• [Throughout 2023] Several users have started reporting game crashes and issues in high-profile AAA titles such as Callisto Protocol and Hogwarts Legacy (among many others). Both tiles are based on Unreal Engine (released in 2023) and feature a shader compilation process at the start. There are currently thousands of such issues reported on Steam Community Forums and Reddit.
• [February 2024] A post by Sebastian Castellanos brings the issue to the limelight, highlighting the "worrying trend" of stability issues affecting 14th and 13th-gen CPUs.
• [February 2024] Our editor along with various other tech outlets start reporting the issue and bringing the matter on to the mainstream media. Quickly, it is pointed out that underclocking and undervolting the chips can result in better stability.
• [April 2024] NVIDIA Issued a formal statement that the stability issues are not related to its GPUs but rather Intel CPUs.
• [April