[rndmize]

Similar story here. 13700KF, no OC, had the machine put together 18 months ago at a respectable shop (Central Computers for those in the bay). I had regular stability issues and blue screens to the point I took it back to the shop after three months - they couldn't find anything wrong. Took it in again at nine months with increasing frustration - nothing. Probably should have taken it again three months ago when I was playing the new Helldivers and that would crash the machine every other time I joined a game, but by that point I was pretty exhausted by the whole thing (and the game had other, unrelated bugs that had me looking elsewhere).

Odds are good I won't be bothering with Intel hardware or recommending it to others for the next decade or more - this has been a flatly terrible experience (and I'll note the irony of finally deciding to spend on a "dream build" and this being the result).

[tfsh]

Exact same story here, spent 4-5k on my build with a 13700k which has blue screened hundreds of times in video games (R6, Hogwarts Legacy, Cyberpunk) over the last year (to the point that I don't even play competitive tournaments now).

I did all sorts, switching from Windows 11 to 10, buying new memory (twice!!), countless days debugging, updating my bios, etc.

I'm relieved to finally have found the cause, but my goodwill for intel is burnt.

Do you know what the general fix is, is it just a BIOS update?

[cuddlyogre]

The only fix is to replace it. There is something wrong with the processor itself that is unfixable by mortal hands.

[scruple]

I have the same chip but have never had issues, but I also noticed it's thermal properties were a bit of a mess when I ran some benchmarks after putting the build together, so I slightly undervolted it in BIOS. Performance wise I never noticed any difference but it stays nice and cool.

Not that this excuses anything, or is even a real fix for the issue , who knows. I wish I'd gotten a thread ripper instead and will be getting an AMD when I build a new system again.

[cuddlyogre]

I began to suspect that it was the processor after I started doing Blender renders and either Blender would crash 100% of the time or I would get a BSoD, which I though was basically impossible on modern computers. The real sign was that dual channel RAM didn't work, but I refused to believe it was the processor. It was so expensive, I didn't want to entertain the idea that I would have to buy another.

A "solution" I had was to lower the amount of cores Blender could use to 12, instead of all of them, which was annoying, and that still only lowered the number of crashes, not stopped them. These crashes were bad too, in that they corrupted project files almost every time.

I basically did everything possible, with little success. All it did was make my computer slow to a crawl and still crash at random.

I don't know what I'm going to do next computer. AMD is seemingly having similar problems, so it's not like I can realistically switch with any confidence. I go close to 10 years between upgrades, so hopefully the landscape will look better then.

[slaymaker1907]

Unless you explicitly set your clock speed/voltage, it's overclocking, I can almost guarantee it. There has been extreme carelessness from MOBO manufacturers on top of Intel's problems.