{"id":193014,"date":"2024-07-16T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/game-developer-swaps-all-servers-to-amd-claims-intel-is-selling-defective-cpus"},"modified":"2024-07-16T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T06:22:22","slug":"game-developer-swaps-all-servers-to-amd-claims-intel-is-selling-defective-cpus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/game-developer-swaps-all-servers-to-amd-claims-intel-is-selling-defective-cpus","title":{"rendered":"Game developer swaps all servers to AMD, claims \u2018Intel is selling defective\u2019 CPUs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/game-developer-swaps-all-servers-to-amd-claims-intel-is-selling-defective-cpus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alderon Games, an Australian-based developer behind the dinosaur-themed multiplayer survival game Path of Titans, <a href=\"https:\/\/alderongames.com\/intel-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> \u201cwe are swapping all our servers to AMD\u201d because \u201cIntel is selling defective\u201d CPUs \u2014 specifically 13th and 14th Gen models.<\/p>\n<p>The post doesn\u2019t mince words; it states that its customers have been reporting thousands of crashes on Intel 13th and 14th Gen CPUs (verified by the game\u2019s crash reporting tools), and its game servers have been \u201cexperiencing constant crashes, taking entire servers down.\u201d It also claims that it\u2019s only a matter of time before Core i9-14900K and Core i9-13900K CPUs that have yet to fail will fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last 3 to 4 months, we have observed that CPUs initially working well deteriorate over time, eventually failing,\u201d Matthew Cassells, Founder of Alderon Games, writes. \u201cThe failure rate we have observed from our own testing is nearly 100%, indicating it\u2019s only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alderon Games, an Australian-based developer behind the dinosaur-themed multiplayer survival game Path of Titans, announced \u201cwe are swapping all our servers to AMD\u201d because \u201cIntel is selling defective\u201d CPUs \u2014 specifically 13th and 14th Gen models. The post doesn\u2019t mince words; it states that its customers have been reporting thousands of crashes on Intel 13th [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}