Intel Skylake bug seizes up PCs running complex workloads

[ondooy]

Intel Skylake bug seizes up PCs running complex workloads

A few weeks ago a team of mathematicians called the Mersenne Community, came across a bug in the Intel Skylake architecture. When such Intel systems were tasked with hunting for prime numbers, using the Prime95 software, they would reproducibly experience system freezes depending upon the program parameters. The same software "works perfectly normal" on all other Intel processors of past generations, it was noted.

The Mersenne Community have found all the record prime numbers of the last 20 years. It was noted that the handcoded assembly language in use for the last 20 years on tens of thousands of machines running 24 hours a day was only stumbling on Skylake powered PCs. Finding that Intel's latest and greatest processors would freeze systems running applications they commonly use to hunt down prime numbers was obviously perturbing for the mathematicians.

When the problem was reported Intel asked a number of questions about system configurations and so on, so it could replicate the issue and diagnose the problems. The community detailed the application program settings, provided system information, software and component lists etc.

oh noooooooo, skysh!t fail...

 

[ondooy]

Prime95 can cause Intel Skylake CPUs to freeze

Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel® Core™ family of products. This issue only occurs under certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be encountered when running applications like Prime95. In those cases, the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behavior. Intel has identified and released a fix and is working with external business partners to get the fix deployed through BIOS.

 

[kawaii_boy]

Intel's Skylake processors are experiencing freezing issues as a result of a bug

Intel's Skylake processors are experiencing freezing issues as a result of a bug

Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel Core family of products. This issue only occurs under certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be encountered when running applications like Prime95. In those cases, the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behaviour.

http://www.neowin.net/news/intels-s...riencing-freezing-issues-as-a-result-of-a-bug


Lucky didnt upgrade to Skylate

 

[gnt888]

will intel do recall

 

[commach]

Threads merged.

Thank you ondooy and kawaii_boy for the contribution.

 

[xxDonmaxx]

Intel alr have fix so dont think it will recall...

 

[MrAwesomeX]

Desktop BIOS update easy .Laptop and tablets how?Sure fussy one.
intel sure screwed up good this time round.

 

[wwenze]

prime95, such complex, very workload

 

[jtjt00]

Intel admits to Skylake bug that freezes Windows and Linux systems

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2441458/intel-admits-to-skylake-bug-that-freezes-windows-and-linux-systems

 

[commach]

Threads merged.

Thanks jtjt00 for the contribution.

 

[FinalTidus]

Seems like Skylake is nothing but problems so far. Makes me think that Intel didn't do enough QC to Skylake before launching.

Bent CPU due to thinner substrate
Similar and even slightly lower performance in certain applications compared to Haswell.
Pricing not attractive. Many prefer going for Haswell-E
Skylake bug

The list keeps getting longer and longer.

 

[avsquare]

prime95, such complex, very workload

Inb4 overclockers use Prime95 to test CPU stability and freeze not because of unstable OC but bug

 

[kaixax555]

Inb4 overclockers use Prime95 to test CPU stability and freeze not because of unstable OC but bug

heng I Haswell

 

[HWZ Editorial]

[News] Intel Skylake bug causes systems to crash when calculating prime numbers

A bug with Intel's entire range of Skylake processors may cause your system to freeze or crash when calculating prime numbers or running other compute-intensive workloads.

View full story here...

 

[ragnarok95]

Heng i on sandy bridge. lol

 

[xxDonmaxx]

Sandy Bridge FTW

 

[wwenze]

Heng I on AMD... Oh wait...

 

[miketkf]

I will consider to assemble a PC with i7 6700K CPU as I read that this CPU will freeze while running complex workloads.

 

[wkweewee]

Lol bash arh bash..

 

[yusoffb01]

Lucky my pentium 4 still strong -->