13th Gen problem...

[leSLIe]

I have a Core i9 13900K, 13th Gen, (watercooled) with this Gigabyte Mobo Z790 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-GAMING-X-AX-rev-1x), for about a year. It's stock, never overclocked. But recently with all this Gen 13th and 14th Intel fiasco, I updated the mobo Bios with the lastest one (F11, released Sep 27, 2024) and since then I get random resets, in desktop environment, doing office work or browsing the web, both in Linux and Windows, but never while playing a 3D game, only on 2D environment of office of web browsing.

Before the BIOS problem, I never had an issue or random resets with this CPU. Definitively something due to the new BIOS, the thing what would you recommend? Install the old BIOS and take my chances with bad high voltages, courtesy of Intel? or try to adjust the cpu voltages? If its the latter, could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

 

[chameleoneel]

I have a Core i9 13900K, 13th Gen, (watercooled) with this Gigabyte Mobo Z790 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-GAMING-X-AX-rev-1x), for about a year. It's stock, never overclocked. But recently with all this Gen 13th and 14th Intel fiasco, I updated the mobo Bios with the lastest one (F11, released Sep 27, 2024) and since then I get random resets, in desktop environment, doing office work or browsing the web, both in Linux and Windows, but never while playing a 3D game, only on 2D environment of office of web browsing.

Before the BIOS problem, I never had an issue or random resets with this CPU. Definitively something due to the new BIOS, the thing what would you recommend? Install the old BIOS and take my chances with bad high voltages, courtesy of Intel? or try to adjust the cpu voltages? If its the latter, could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Have you tried resetting the CMOS? At work we had some computers which ran warmer after the BIOS/Microcode 012B udpate. But that was mostly alleviated by resetting the CMOS.

 

[XoR_]

I would recommend checking memory settings and do full stability testing like if you overclocked. Might just as well check overclocking options - it is possible on these CPUs to get better multicore performance with lower power consumption and avoid over-voltage nonsense.

Myself I haven't updated microcode but I run my CPU at 5.4GHz at 1.23V

 

[jordan12]

I see a lot of CPU issues with intel lately. Definitely makes me want to just keep my I5 12th Gen CPU and not upgrade.

 

[LigTasm]

I have a Core i9 13900K, 13th Gen, (watercooled) with this Gigabyte Mobo Z790 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z790-GAMING-X-AX-rev-1x), for about a year. It's stock, never overclocked. But recently with all this Gen 13th and 14th Intel fiasco, I updated the mobo Bios with the lastest one (F11, released Sep 27, 2024) and since then I get random resets, in desktop environment, doing office work or browsing the web, both in Linux and Windows, but never while playing a 3D game, only on 2D environment of office of web browsing.

Before the BIOS problem, I never had an issue or random resets with this CPU. Definitively something due to the new BIOS, the thing what would you recommend? Install the old BIOS and take my chances with bad high voltages, courtesy of Intel? or try to adjust the cpu voltages? If its the latter, could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Crashing happening in light load scenarios is a possible indicator of the chip being degraded already because the culprit is the 1/2 core high boost clocks. The new microcode heavily limits the VID request table and it may not have enough voltage for the high single core boosting. If I were you, I would pop in the BIOS and set the all-core turbo ratio to 52X and see if you regain stability as it takes like 15 seconds.

This is also why people like XoR_ have no issue, same as myself. My 13700K is a launch day chip and its been sitting at 5.4ghz all-core OC with a 1.250V VID limit since I bought it.