A retailer has gone on the record about Intel's instability problems and claims high return rates for 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs.
Intel ’s troubles with instability on 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs continues to escalate, and a new report suggests that gamers are returning these CPUs at a much higher rate than retailers expect. An anonymous European retailer says they’ve seen four times as many returns for 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs compared to 12th-gen, according to a report from French outlet Les Numeriques.
Recommended Videos The outlet speculates the return rate is somewhere around 5%, while most CPUs only get up to around a 1% return rate. Even that is a low estimate, as the outlet points out, considering there’s some percentage of processors that receive service directly from Intel. According to a report from Level1Techs, the number of affected processors could be as low as 10% and as a high as 50%.
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