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I’ve been doing some googl’ing and it appears some of it’s laptops could be affected by the intel microcode bug (13th Gen HX CPUs)… I noticed that the previous bios 2.03 doesn’t appear to update the MCU to 125 as mine is still running at 112.

The good news is i’ve been monitoring the voltages on my Razer Blade 16 and it hasn’t ever gone above 1.4 Volts… maybe the razer blades don’t need the update???

Thanks
AJ 

Yeah Iv also been keeping a close eye on this as Im running a 13950HX chip and from what I can see it seems currently no one really knows as Intel originally stated laptop chips are not effected but have since then edited the post and have said they need more time to assess : https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/13-14th-Gen-Mobile-CPUs/td-p/1620576

Apparently HX chips are the same die or something as the effected desktop chips and I have seen some posts showing HX chips hitting high VIDs like this 14900HX hitting 1.666v : https://x.com/compguru910/status/1817307152416903191

I spoke to Razer directly and they say there has no been increase in RMAs for these chips and they haven’t heard anything at their end and apparently Razer work very closely with Intel so would like to think Intel would make them aware if there was an issue. 

Have also been monitoring my VIDs and in the last 14 days haven’t seen any above 1.473v which would be below the latest microcode update. I do think if the latest microcode update works with HX chips it would be a good idea for Razer to deploy this just to be on the safe side as it seems it limits the VID requests to 1.55v and as shown above some HX chips seem to be going higher than what Intel recommend.
 
More should come to light in the coming days/weeks from Intel 


Edit 15/08/24 - Intel have just said Laptop chips are not effected : community.intel.com/t5/Processors/Does-the-recent-problem-concerns-laptop-i9-14900HX-or-only/m-p/1623398#M76255


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