The only workarounds that seem to improve stability involve manually downclocking or undervolting Intel’s processors.

Guess that explains why I haven't had any unexpected crashes yet with stuff like Palworld or Helldivers 2 (afaik both are made in UE). Have been running my 13900kf slightly undervolted.

Sounds like their ootb "overclock" pushes the chips too hard. They completely lost touch with any sense for efficiency.

So their OOtB overclock practice has gone sideways? Surprise surpise.

Most of the games affected seem to be based on the Unreal Engine, which could point to a stability issue that Intel needs to address.

Certainly could be a CPU issue, but if all the affected games use the same engine, I don't know why you would conclude that.

I just built a 13700k system for a lab box. My plan all along was undervolt (stable .130 undervolt) and limit max PL2 to 175w. I probably get 85% or better of listed performance and it runs a cool 60° even under max load, which I will frequently run for 24h at a time. For me, cool and stable was always the goal, sounds like this is just bearing out my decision.

Note, I would have gone AMD, but I needed quicksync for Plex.

They replaced my 13900k for exactly this reason a couple of months back. I bought a full contact cpu frame and tossed a new AIO cooler on it, and we’ll see how it goes…

Ow nou, I just bought an i9 laptop