Yes, the drama of the Intel event, did give an impression of being far greater than the actual failure rate. I suppose the point being that both Intel and the board manufacturers, possibly all of them for the higher spec boards, were typically using settings way outside of a recommended only setting, as well as later microcode changes that stopped various voltage spiking occurring during load transitions. There may well be more to that than I can remember.
I remember buying my first AL, a 12700k, and a Gigabyte Z690 board, both of its power limits were set to unlimited at the time, BIOS defaults only used, no performance profiles etc. Even at the very start I assumed that was not good, but only part of the issue it turned out, and so used Intel's recommended power limits.
I get the impression that those power limits were typically ignored, perhaps Asus being the worse offender for aggressive settings. The situation made far worse when the RL 14th Gen arrived. Not only power limits, but general high vcore and power spikes from the problems with the CPU's.
There did seem to be something to actually point at with the Intel / board manufacturers deteriorating situation. If Intel actually had something meaningful to replace AL and RL before they pumped out the 14th Gen, thinking more 14900KS then some of the frying / failings might have been avoided, at least at the sensational level.
With this AMD / Asrock / Others though, isn't it a little more obscure as to its causes, and, seemingly, less orchestrated by events, unlike Intel....?
