[throwaway87483]

I doubt jeffbee lives in a backwater place such as mine, but Intel do not handle RMAs in many countries around the world. There's simply no such thing as RMA here for most brands you're familiar with. If my hypothetical 14900k dies and the seller I bought it from refuses to provide a replacement (for example, by claiming that I overclocked it), I'm fucked. It doesn't really matter if Intel themselves issue replacements or not.

(And no, I am not from and of the sanctioned countries or territories. It's the reality of an unimportant market.)