April 13th news - Over the past two months, many gamers worldwide have been encountering issues such as insufficient memory and crashes while using 13/14th Gen Core i9 processors to play games. Even daily usage often results in various blue screen crashes after a few months.
When faced with insufficient memory, the first suspicion naturally falls on the graphics card. However, NVIDIA has explicitly stated that these issues have nothing to do with the graphics card and advises players to contact Intel for feedback.
After numerous trials, many players have found that lowering the processor frequency resolves the issue, indicating that the frequent crashes may be caused by the excessive power consumption of the 13/14th Gen Core i9 processors.
Intel has been forthcoming about the matter. Engineer Thomas Hannaford has confirmed awareness of the issue and stated that investigations are underway. Players experiencing issues are encouraged to contact Intel's customer service for assistance.
Research conducted by Red Game Tools has pointed out that NVIDIA graphics cards are indeed innocent. Most problems occur when using games built on the Unreal Engine, specifically during shader decompression, a task primarily handled by the CPU. However, the games erroneously indicate insufficient memory.
Tom's Hardware reports that the root cause of the problem lies in the fact that high-end motherboards for almost all Intel platforms over the years have set the processor power limit to 4096W, or even unlimited.
This approach, although lazy, had gone unnoticed in the past. However, due to the higher power consumption of the 13/14th Gen Core i9 processors, issues have finally surfaced.
According to Intel specifications, the power limit for most processors should be below 200W.
So, is updating the BIOS the solution?
