[postcert]

Kind of seems like both Motherboard and Chip manufacturers are pushing the higher end processors a bit too close to the limit. As easy as it'd be to point at motherboards pushing all-core boosts and bumping power limits and/or boost durations up 50%+, these 13/14 gen chips also act up (though less often) on Workstation/Server boards.

My recent AMD build (5950x) also had a similar high-end part instability where it would lock up under Linux when downclocking to a very low idle. Replaced the processor but it still needed a small voltage bump to keep stable.

[genewitch]

as a counterpoint, my 5950x has been rock solid. I ran VMs under proxmox for a while until i moved those offsite and now the 5950x is my primary computer. I did get a water cooler for the CPU and was very careful about application of thermal paste and such. as best i can remember this machine has never crashed, even under severe loads while in a drywalled shed with a window unit keeping the shed ostensibly at 75F. Think CPU cryptomining, or compiling the linux kernel with --jobs=33 24/7.