Actually, both Intel and motherboard manufacturers are at fault here, in my opinion. Intel for making it possible to remove the power limits completely (yet warning against it), and motherboard manufacturers for disregarding that warning. Have to make your product look as good as possible ...even if only for a brief time before it's failing. Then the blame game begins and the customer ends between a rock and a very hard place. Just my two cents.
True, ASRock for my board have a bios for download available listed as a stable build, I install it and it defaults to 20C higher than the specified safety temperature on the CPU (120C tjmax, should be 100C).
On another board if I enable XMP, it significantly over volts the IMC.
We know the ASUS debacle of blowing up AMD 7000 series chips. Then changing their web site to make it look as if the problem was never there, removing liability etc.
Making MCE a standard default bios mode.
For sure is arguments to lock down the bios, as motherboards manufacturers are failing to show restraint, they all want that extra few % on motherboard reviews.
It wouldnt surprise me if my 120C tjmax bios is an ex review bios, where they forgot to flip the default back for public consumption. (reviewer shows in video, look I am using auto for tjmax).
I think a solution I would like to see is, where Intel/AMD have to approve each bios before release, the Board vendors have a bad boy points system, different mistakes give different points, if they get X amount of points within a period of time, they go through a ban of being allowed any K or X features in their bios at all, full lockdown, to comply and not be labelled as a bad boy, all non spec features "have" to be off by default.
The industry is in a bit of a mess.
You're free to think that but why would Intel's CPU begin returning different results at different clock rates?
And why would Intel respond with settings to change to avoid the problem and also replace CPUs if you show them this issue?
Is it just because RAD Game Tools has such an impeccable reputation going back 30 years as a middle-ware vendor that Intel is playing nice?
Really makes one think.
What are these settings Intel advised to change? I didnt comment on them as they wasnt disclosed. I assumed in my head though Intel are likely telling people to configure spec power limit's.