During an event held in China, the Santa Clara giant provided new details about a stability issue affecting Intel Raptor Lake, and these were leaked on Weibo. On this occasion, she focused on effects that update the microcode it will affect the performance and overclocking capacity of the affected processors and the news is positive.

A few days ago, Intel confirmed the extension of the warranty by two years and all affected processors listed, so if you have any doubts about this topic, I suggest you check out the mentioned article before you continue reading. This way you will also be able to find out if your processor is one of those that are at risk of stability issues and therefore need to install a microcode update.

Microcode update that will arrive in the form of a new BIOS on compatible motherboards, resolves a high voltage issue causing permanent damage to select Intel Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors (Core Gen 13 and Core Gen 14). Since it is a voltage adjustment, there have been rumors that it could affect the performance of these processors, but Intel assures that this will not be the case.

Intel Raptor Lake will retain performance and overclocking capacity

According to Intel, Core Gen 13 and Core Gen 14 will not negatively affect the performance of these processors, which they will maintain the same turbo mode and will continue to scale the same way they did before receiving the update. It will not have a negative impact on the overclockability of both generations either.

This is good news, although we have to remember that in general the turbo mode of these processors scales so well that the overclocking margin we have It is quite small, especially in the Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K, which already come very high from home. Therefore, there will be no drop in clock frequencies to accommodate voltage changes.

As always, we’ll have to wait and see what actually happens once this update is deployed, because eventually when the voltage changes, it’s normal for these it must be accompanied by some type of modification in processor behavior. Maybe Intel found the formula, so it’s not necessary in this case, but it’s better to wait and not jump to conclusions.

If you have an Intel Core Gen 13 or Core Gen 14 processor and experience stability issues, you must process an RMA through warranty and request a replacement because These problems indicate that damage has occurred, and said damage is permanent. Updating the microcode won’t fix them, so keep that in mind.