Is my CPU dieing ?

[hedgey]

what was the VID on your 13900k? and temps? a lot of them are failing lately.

 

[spooks]

Apologies, I should have reported back earlier than this but life got in the way.
I tried the other set of ram and there were no issues with that either.
However, things did get worse, random crashes when both gaming and just browsing, all sorts of errors in event log.
So I decided to reinstall windows from scratch and log everything as I went.
I experienced muliple crashes during the windows installation.
After it finally managed to complete there were further crashes / errors when downloading / installing programs.
Just as an example, I downloaded chrome browser and it refused to install, downloaded again, refused again, downloaded again, refused again.
All 3 downloads were the same size, after a number of attempts it decided to install from the first dl.
This happened with a number of different programs.
The random crashing and programs shutting down continued.
To try and cut an already long story short I contacted overclockers customer services.
I explained all of the above and the history already outlined in this thread and after a couple of questions answered I received an RMA.
I sent the CPU back on a Monday afternoon and received a replacement on Wednesday afternoon.
All seems well with this one so I guess the answer to the thread title was yes.
Also, thanks to OC's for excellent after sales support much appreciated.

Glad you’re sorted.

I had a 13700k with exactly these sorts of errors. I got it replaced an no further issues in around 10 months. I have upgraded to a 14900k and will be using the 13700k in my sons pc.

Some earlier 13th gen cpu’s had oxidisation issues according to intel. Definitely some duff 13th gen CPU’s got produced. I have the same board as you and it’s rock solid with 4 sticks of 5600 ddr5 using XMP1 (both with a 13700k and the 14900k)

 

[coach2024]

It's the CPU... Intel 13th/14th gen are trash see YouTube, recall needed

 

[spooks]

It's the CPU... Intel 13th/14th gen are trash see YouTube, recall needed

I wouldn't say trash - there are 'some' issues. If intel stick to their word then the micro code fix 'should' box the problem. Many many people have had zero issues with 13th and 14th gen CPU's. I'm not saying that's its not an issue, more that these youtubers like to blow things WAY out of proportion.

 

[jigger]

I wouldn't say trash - there are 'some' issues. If intel stick to their word then the micro code fix 'should' box the problem. Many many people have had zero issues with 13th and 14th gen CPU's. I'm not saying that's its not an issue, more that these youtubers like to blow things WAY out of proportion.

Reduce yourubers proportions by a factor 50 and we’re still left with a monumental ****-up of bumpgate proportions.

 

[KompuKare]

I wouldn't say trash - there are 'some' issues. If intel stick to their word then the micro code fix 'should' box the problem. Many many people have had zero issues with 13th and 14th gen CPU's. I'm not saying that's its not an issue, more that these youtubers like to blow things WAY out of proportion.

"boxing" the problem meaning closing the gate after lots of CPUs already bolted/were pushed into the deep end and are now damaged.

A microcode fix might prevent further damage but the ones already damaged by the current microcode won't magically fix themselves.

I hope the lesson is: no more power hogs, Emergency Edition and similar: if a product can only "win" by resorting to using double the power of is nearest competitor, then go back to the drawing board.

This lesson should apply to Intel, AMD (no more FX Bulldozer), and Nvidia (rumour has the 5090 with an additional 50W TDP over the 4090).

 

[spooks]

Yes, I agree it’s not great. I just think labelling millions of CPU’s as trash is a little harsh.

Intel will have to replace failed CPU’s - that’s what the warranty is for!

 

[coach2024]

Yes, I agree it’s not great. I just think labelling millions of CPU’s as trash is a little harsh.

Intel will have to replace failed CPU’s - that’s what the warranty is for!

Let's just ignore the horrendous power consumption, rushed build quality, and gaming performance trading blows with a Ryzen 7 x3d, on a dead socket?

 

[spooks]

Let's just ignore the horrendous power consumption, rushed build quality, and gaming performance trading blows with a Ryzen 7 x3d, on a dead socket?

Time to relax and remember to breath.

On that power consumption I watched a deep dive into the ‘real world’ consumption where it showed especially in productivity workloads, the performance per watt was actually better with the intel CPU’s. That’s totally separate to the issues they’ve had.

Just saying

 

[coach2024]

Time to relax and remember to breath.

On that power consumption I watched a deep dive into the ‘real world’ consumption where it showed especially in productivity workloads, the performance per watt was actually better with the intel CPU’s. That’s totally separate to the issues they’ve had.

Just saying

But the point remains, the build quality is trash, likely numerous CPUs have had slight degredation, regardless of warranty, your average layman, or many consumers, will have misdiagnosed. The temps on these CPUs when gaming and power consumption reminds me of bulldozer. Intel needs to go back to the drawing board. This is the same company, who used a phased cooler on a 20 core CPU and tried to fool consumers