Random CTDs on high end Intel chips? Check your bios settings

Thanks a bunch for sharing. This is the first time I’ve seen this and have had a 13900K since February of 2023. Intel, Gigabyte, and Asus really screwed up with this one.

I think this thread needs more visibility as this issue is affecting a lot of people. I applied these settings and here is what happened:

Instantly noticed a drop in 15-20C of my CPU temps. Prior to this, it was routinely running mid 90s during workloads and hitting 100C quite frequently. This was bizarre since it hasn’t always done this. I guess Gigabyte was taking a while to really cook my CPU and degrade performance.

I’m requesting a replacement from Intel since this issue is ridiculous.

I have some desire to revert back just to test what insane power it was pushing into the CPU, but I’m scared to do it since I don’t want to ruin the processor. I’ve seen an article saying 13900Ks are being returned in droves and this is the likely cause.