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.
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).