Intel has spent the higher a part of two weeks underneath fireplace for the instability of its thirteenth and 14th Gen desktop chips. In the event you haven’t been following the information, a microcode algorithm has affected the collection above of chirps. It’s been sending incorrect voltage requests to the processor, leading to customers’ computer systems crashing. That was already dangerous, however then got here Tom’s Hardware reporting that any harm incurred was everlasting.
Intel introduced it was releasing a patch to repair the issue, which is ready to hit someday in mid-August. That is effectively and good, however what about that everlasting harm? In line with PC Gamer, Intel is making an attempt to make issues proper by extending the warranty of the affected boxed chips by two years. Now, in case your chip is in a prebuilt system, Intel recommends customers “contact the system producer’s help crew.”
And whereas it’s a superb transfer, don’t assume it’s out of the goodness of Intel’s coronary heart. There are reviews {that a} legislation agency has began investigating and submitting a class-action lawsuit towards the chipmaker. It’s extending the guarantee to cowl when the chips may very well be an effective way to chop offended customers off previously.
However not so quick. Evidently Intel is even having an issue with the guarantee extension. There have been rumblings from some Redditors that Intel isn’t holding up their finish of the deal. Jerubedo posted within the r/hardware subreddit particulars the disappointing back-and-forth with Intel Buyer Assist. Intel’s RMA. Regardless of giving the corporate all of the documentation requested on the RMA (Return Supplies Authorization) type, they haven’t gotten any satisfaction.
As a substitute, Intel instructed Jerubedo that the merchandise they bought had been “‘re-marked’ and never real.” That is regardless of buying two boxed 14900Ks, one from Amazon and the opposite from Microcenter. Berube went above and past, taking one chip again to Microcenter and getting the retailer to verify that the chip had not been tampered with and was the real article. Intel refused to again down and stated that the chips had been, in reality, fraudulent.
In a letter to the Redditor, Intel stated, “Please be suggested as a part of Intel’s ongoing efforts to stop fraud within the market, within the occasion the product you submit for guarantee help is discovered to be re-marked or in any other case fraudulent product, Intel reserves the rights to retain the product and/or destroy such product as applicable.”
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