Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates

lorty , 1 month ago

Guess getting the non k version had its perks afterall. Either way I’m going AMD next time I build a machine.

systemglitch , 1 month ago

Since switching to AMD, I have found game crashes to basically be a thing of the past. It will happen once in a while, but much less than I was experiencing before. Just my experience, and one I’m grateful for.

Trikami , 1 month ago

On Linux, there are issues with C states on AMD chips so they are not getting a free pass either.

dukatos , 1 month ago

Not any more unless you are running Ubuntu 18.04.

Trikami , 1 month ago

To my understanding it’s not fixed yet at least on kernel. I don’t know exactly what causes it, but there have been multiple causes for it. The one I have is very rare, but causes a full lockup with no tty access. No matter the distro. The fix was to disable C6.

dukatos , 1 month ago

I am running a notebook with AMD 5300U and a desktop with 5900x and none has problems with sleep.

Trikami , 1 month ago

It could be a bios issue too, since not many have it. The only way to reproduce it consistently is to spike the CPU to full load and then remove the load. There are no logs, which make finding the issue even harder, but otherwise that fix works and I don’t have enough knowledge to even tackle it.

Psythik , 1 month ago

My experience is similar now that you mention it. The only game that crashes on my AMD machine is Spider-Man 2 Brazil, but probably because it’s a literal PS5 game that was hacked and slashed together to run natively on PC, a full year before the official port was scheduled to come out. So I don’t blame it.

I picked a good time to switch to Team Red. It’s my first AMD build ever, and after fixing a “failing SSD” issue simply by re-seating it, the PC’s been running like a dream.

Stovetop , 1 month ago

They basically come overclocked right out of the factory these days, given how hard Intel pushes them just to make their numbers look bigger.

Next time I build a PC, I plan to spend extra on hardware that can run games decently while producing as little heat as possible. My current PC is like a space heater when it’s running and it’s unbearable to play games on it for any extended periods during the summer months.

anamethatisnt , 1 month ago

Next time I build a PC, I plan to spend extra on hardware that can run games decently while producing as little heat as possible. My current PC is like a space heater when it’s running and it’s unbearable to play games on it for any extended periods during the summer months.

The only reason I went for an 80+ Platinum PSU instead of an 80+ Bronze PSU is to make it generate less heat (and the fact that the platinum had a really nice price at the time). Doing it for power savings isn’t worth it, but getting a cooler case is nice.
tomshardware.com/…/what-80-plus-levels-mean,36721…

Chee_Koala , 1 month ago

The PC I made before my current was my first SFF, and I had a lot of fun figuring out heat loads and what it means to build SFF. The Ryzen 7 3700x (65w) was just at the top of what my small Noctua CPU cooler could manage in the fractal node 202.

Then I got a steam deck and, holy heckers, that’s some efficient gaming. If you play docked, that would be the ultimate low power/low heat gaming device (handheld you are so close to the source of heat that it’s still hot in the summer) I think it draws 35w on peak load over time with 40w short burst max. For the whole package, incl screen! Captain Dozerman(Bill Hader) from B99 would have been proud. Efficiency, efficiency, efficiency!

bungle_in_the_jungle , 1 month ago

Heh. Username checks out.