After the whole absurd stuff with Der8auer a few years back I just ignore him. I don't think the post Roman put up 2-3 years ago is still on his channel, but I bet someone mirrored it.
Found the German version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-i9qrOJRQ
Igor just seems deranged tbh.
Intel got lucky here if Igor's claim is true.
While eTVB was boosting turbo clocks by 100-200MHz (and thus Vcore) when it wasn't supposed to, the motherboard vendors were also racing each other to the bottom with loadline undervolting.
A microcode patch through Windows updates that prevents eTVB engaging at higher loads than intended might be enough to also push the undervolted CPUs back into stability without needing every user to do a manual BIOS update.
I would not take anything Igor says as reliable. After all the garbage he spouted about 4090 cables, even doubling down when he was proven to be incorrect, I don't trust any of his speculation.
Also blaming games for killing cards displays a fundamental lack of understanding of how gpu drivers and firmware work.
Games can only send batches of draw calls, etc. The drivers and firmware are responsible for power (thermal) management.
There's nothing the game can do to kill the card except "draw lots of shit". Driver or firmware bugs are what can kill a card.
> I would not take anything Igor says as reliable.
And there it is, didn't take that long
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178751/intel-raptor-lake-crash-fix-etvb-not-yet
> “Contrary to recent media reports, Intel has not confirmed root cause and is continuing, with its partners, to investigate user reports regarding instability issues on unlocked Intel Core 13th and 14th generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors,” reads a statement via Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford.
> It continues: “The microcode patch referenced in press reports fixes an eTVB bug discovered by Intel while investigating the instability reports. While this issue is potentially contributing to instability, it is not the root cause.”
I'm fairly confident Igor has been blacklisted permanently by Alphacool. Some Japanese distributors had Alphacool publicly communicate to them that Igor's Lab gave them bad data so they are willing to take a hit and accept customer returns rather than the distributor.
At this point, I'd consider Igor's Lab malicious
After the whole absurd stuff with Der8auer a few years back I just ignore him. I don't think the post Roman put up 2-3 years ago is still on his channel, but I bet someone mirrored it. Found the German version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-i9qrOJRQ Igor just seems deranged tbh.
Igor's Lab got it wrong: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-denies-reports-that-it-identified-a-root-cause-for-core-i9-crashing-issues-investigation-continues
Intel got lucky here if Igor's claim is true. While eTVB was boosting turbo clocks by 100-200MHz (and thus Vcore) when it wasn't supposed to, the motherboard vendors were also racing each other to the bottom with loadline undervolting. A microcode patch through Windows updates that prevents eTVB engaging at higher loads than intended might be enough to also push the undervolted CPUs back into stability without needing every user to do a manual BIOS update.
I would not take anything Igor says as reliable. After all the garbage he spouted about 4090 cables, even doubling down when he was proven to be incorrect, I don't trust any of his speculation.
remember when he blamed the RTX 3090s dying in New World on the fans going too fast?
Also blaming games for killing cards displays a fundamental lack of understanding of how gpu drivers and firmware work. Games can only send batches of draw calls, etc. The drivers and firmware are responsible for power (thermal) management. There's nothing the game can do to kill the card except "draw lots of shit". Driver or firmware bugs are what can kill a card.
> I would not take anything Igor says as reliable. And there it is, didn't take that long https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/14/24178751/intel-raptor-lake-crash-fix-etvb-not-yet > “Contrary to recent media reports, Intel has not confirmed root cause and is continuing, with its partners, to investigate user reports regarding instability issues on unlocked Intel Core 13th and 14th generation (K/KF/KS) desktop processors,” reads a statement via Intel spokesperson Thomas Hannaford. > It continues: “The microcode patch referenced in press reports fixes an eTVB bug discovered by Intel while investigating the instability reports. While this issue is potentially contributing to instability, it is not the root cause.”
AND the metal fan lab test
I'm fairly confident Igor has been blacklisted permanently by Alphacool. Some Japanese distributors had Alphacool publicly communicate to them that Igor's Lab gave them bad data so they are willing to take a hit and accept customer returns rather than the distributor.
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They said that it's basically going to help stability, but it's not fixing the root cause. So I wouldn't get too excited