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Intel has issued new guidelines for its motherboard partners regarding the continued problems around crashing Intel Core i9 13th and 14th Gen processors. As reported by Tom's Hardware, the new guidelines issued by Intel have been enforced to combat the stability issues of its high-end chipsets.

As we reported previously, the problems are primarily affecting high-end unlocked Core i9 CPUs like the i9-13900K and i9-14900K, as well as KF and KS variants of the same processors. Some reports suggest that the i7-13700K and i7-14700K have also been having issues.

The full statement was relayed by Igor's Lab but the most telling part is this comment by Intel: "600/700 Series chipset boards often set BIOS defaults to disable thermal and power delivery safeguards designed to limit processor exposure to sustained periods of high voltage and frequency."

The company writes, "Intel requests system and motherboard manufacturers to provide end users with a default BIOS profile that matches Intel recommended settings." Intel also advises BIOS makers to add warnings that would appear when the user changes the settings for the CPU's voltage and thermal limits, urging them to proceed with caution.

Intel's statement on the recent stability issues and crashes with its latest 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs shifts the blame to motherboard makers.

A statement from Intel about instability says that motherboards are running its latest processors out of specification by default.

The recent rash of game crashes on Intel CPUs is well-understood by now, but Intel is calling out motherboard vendors.