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14900k Issues

kingy10

kingy10

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Hi all,

The first 14900k I had would constantly crash in games , I received a replacement but this chip is even worse and refuses to even boot into windows without freezing clock_watchdog_timeout and critical_process died blue screens of death, it even froze in windows recovery environment.
Have I just been super unlucky ? Has anyone else had issues with the 14900k?
 
Problems with Intel CPUs let alone 2 in a row is pretty rare, I'd suspect motherboard or RAM, with clock_watchdog_timeout it is generally vcore (possibly incorrect settings or PSU problem) or RAM issues.

EDIT: Though some places just round-robin RMA replacements and hope the problem goes away :( unless a retail boxed Intel replacement maybe just been sent out another faulty chip :(
 
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As Rroff said, I'd bet money on that not being a CPU issue.

I'd guess ram, try run without XMP, then if issues persist start removing sticks until it (hopefully) works.

Failing that Its most likely motherboard. Have you updated bios fully?
 
Qitarah said:
Failing that Its most likely motherboard. Have you updated bios fully?
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Good point actually - if the motherboard production date pre-dates the 14th gen release the BIOS version may not fully support it - especially the first 2 updates on many boards have less than properly working PCI-e bus support.
 
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scubes said:
And thatsvs why I'm glad I held off going for this cpu but I seen a asus a strix gaming supports the14900k ..
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Aside from some fun and games on first start up with my 14700K and Z790 Aorus Master due to the out the box BIOS having 14th gen support but not with functional PCI-e - so I had no display on the monitor plugged into the GPU, but fortunately did with the embedded GPU so that made troubleshooting easier, once I'd updated to a post release BIOS it has been flawless.
 
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@ Rroff how does your 14700k perform and what games you play?
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I've only got it paired up with a 3070 for now, until I can get some kind of better deal on something newer. But so far I'm really happy with the performance, it is also very responsive - some recent CPUs don't feel as smooth to me in the same games/settings. Mostly playing older games though like The Division though I've also played a bit of CP2077 and Hogwarts Legacy on it.

My motherboard has an "Instant 6GHz" feature in the BIOS which boosts 2 cores to 6GHz, with a couple of power tweaks I've got it happily boosting up to 4 cores to 6GHz in most games which is a nice little boost.
 
scubes said:
I thought all cores in these hit 6ghz well 4 is almost there lol..
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If you have sufficient cooling and play with the power and/or thermal limits it is probably possible to do all core 6GHz - I'm using air cooling. The cores on mine are definitely capable of over 6GHz if I was inclined to push it (the power draw goes astronomical as well not commensurate with the performance gain).
 
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kingy10 said:
Hi all,

The first 14900k I had would constantly crash in games , I received a replacement but this chip is even worse and refuses to even boot into windows without freezing clock_watchdog_timeout and critical_process died blue screens of death, it even froze in windows recovery environment.
Have I just been super unlucky ? Has anyone else had issues with the 14900k?
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When I had issues like these on X99 my Asus motherboard was to blame, I was annoyed I sent back a perfectly good CPU only to get a worse bin in return.
 
The OP's board might well have a 14th gen 'ready' bios if its advertised as such, but there has likely been some revisions since, and given the 'newness' of the 14th gen chips, might well have a lot of 14th gen specific stability/power updates etc. in newer bios revisions.

Unfortunatley when new BIOS are published, they don't tend to come with very comprehensive 'change logs', you might just get 'contains security or bug fixes' if you are lucky!
 
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