INTELSISTERS SEETHING AND COPING 
They teased it earlier this morning with this tweet
https://x.com/G*mersNexus/status/1819002394186744136
steves hair is getting kind of grey
intel allegedly knew about the raptor lake situation since 2022????????
intel had a really rough quarter, losing 25% stock value, cutting 15% of their workforce, halting dividends, and getting rid of the free employee fruit
the fab is running on a "skeleton crew", causing issues like manufacturing errors.
extremetech was the first to break the story that intel was indeed at found for the BSOD issues on raptor lake CPUs. Intel blamed its microcode update and fixes it
intel rolls out a fix that required people to update their bios, after this people found more issues with the 13900k
radgamecowtools releases the first bombshell article, claiming that intel was at fault for issues on Oodle and Unreal. (oodle is one of the most popular decompression libraries used for games)
they point the figure squarely at the 13900k and 14900k processors, but also mention that the 13700 and 14700 series may be at fault too 
intel drops its first public statement in feburary of 2024, two years after they knew about this issue
intel decides to blame mobo manufacturers for the issues, despite knowing that its their fault
alderon games releases a post bluntly stating that intel CPUs are crashing way too frequently on them, and that they are switching to AMD
they stated that intel CPUs crashed 100x more frequently that AMD CPUs 
epic games makes a statement saying that fortnite is also experiencing crashes on 13900k/kf/ks and 14900k/kf/ks processors.
intel claiming now that yes, there was an oxidation issue in 2023, but "it is not related to the instability issue"
that passage was edited to state ""only a small number of instability reports can be connected to the manufacturing issue" 
steve goes off on some janny from the /r/intel subreddit for deleting a comment that was critical of intel. he stated that "the subreddit is functionally indistinguishable from an official platform for intel". this moderator apparently has beef with hardware unboxed, and HU basically confirms the mod is an intel shill
intel is referring to this as a "big problem" internally
so this is a huge blunder for intel. they were seriously doing well with intel arc, and their CPUs were actually catching up somewhat to AMD, but this might tank their reputation. i'm not fully convinced that this will be the end of intel, because they receive billions from the US government. i was actually considering getting an intel CPU, but at the last minute i bought a 7800x3d 
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I cranked my clocks back to stock
and my 13900KS is hanging 
in there. I'm SOL because I de-lidded so no warranty for me 
If Intel figures this out and their chips
look good when I need to upgrade in 7 years I'll stick 
with em. They've been good to me so far.
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jewish lives matter
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Why bother delidding? Do you just enjoy tinkering?
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Ya, I have a problem
with tinkering and minmaxxing with my hobbies, ounces make pounds mindset. It would 
thermal 
throttle at stock 
clocks in Cinebench after a few minutes. After delid it just won't hit TJMax. I think 
86c is as high as it gets now running 
Cinebench for a bit over an hour. Not bad with just a delid, mounting bracket, and a 360mm AIO.
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It does seem cool, I just could never justify the minor perf improvement while risking such a $$ part.
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It was sketchy
since the heat spreader is soldered onto the dies for Raptor 
Lake. My Kabby Lake was way easier. I used kits for both which makes it even easier.
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