Intel seems to have released an update regarding its 14th & 13th Gen CPU stability issues, calling out motherboard makers for not following recommended settings.
Intel Says 14th & 13th Gen CPU Stability Issues Are Due To Motherboard & System Makers Not Following Their Recommended Settings The update comes several months after it was reported that Intel's 14th & 13th Gen CPUs have a really bad stability problem in several gaming applications.
The issue was later discovered to be a problem caused by the CPUs being pushed way too hard from unlimited power limits and thermal profiles. Related Story Intel Lunar Lake “Core Ultra 200V” CPU Spotted In Next-Gen HP Spectre x360 Laptop, Strong Battlemage “Xe2” Arc iGPU PerformanceThese settings were usually enabled by default on motherboards and the only way to fix these issues was either to manually tune the whole chip or simply undervolt/underclock it.
Either way resulted in performance loss on your chip with up to -15% drops reported in recent tests. The tuning was necessary though as keeping the chip running like that would result in serious silicon degradation, resulting in more issues such as BSODs, failing to open any app, & I/O/DRAM problems too.
Only this week did motherboard makers finally start rolling out fixes to this issue by incorporating a new "Intel BaseLine" BIOS option.