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by Fabricio20 701 days ago
There is no reliable way to diagnose this issue with the 14th gen, the chip slowly degrades over time and you start getting more and more (usually gpu driver under windows) crashes. I believe the easy way might be to run decompression stress tests if I remember correctly from Wendell's (Level1Techs) video.

I highly recommend going into your motherboard right now and manually setting your configurations to the current intel recommendation to prevent it from degrading to the point where you'd need to RMA it. I have a 14900K and it took about 2.5 months before it started going south and it was getting worse by the DAY for me. Intel has closed my RMA ticket since changing the bios settings to very-low-compared-to-what-the-original-is has made the system stable again, so I guess I have a 14900K that isn't a high end chip anymore.

Below are the configs intel provided to me on my RMA ticket that have made my clearly degraded chip stable again:

CEP (Current Excursion Protection)> Enable. eTVB (Enhanced Thermal Velocity boost)> Enable. TVB (Thermal Velocity boost)>Enable. TVB Voltage Optimization> Enable. ICCMAX Unilimited bit>Disable. TjMAX Offset> 0. C-States (Including C1E) >Enable. ICCMAX> 249A. ICCMAX_APP>200A. Power limit 1 (PL1)>125W. Power limit 2 (PL2)>188W