So, I realized I never posted about this on here. I have been having major troubles with my new PC for roughly half a year, which started about half a year after I bought it. It's an 13900k with 64gb of DDR5 ram and an AMD RX6700XT. At first it seemed like games were having troubles accessing memory, so I repaired the installs. Then it looked like the GPU was crashing, so I unplugged it, cleaned it, checked it for defects, did a MemTest and both, system memory and video memory, used a driver cleaning tool to completely reinstall the drivers and software, built a new support bracket to make sure the GPU ain't sacking.

I went through months of troubleshooting until I finally figured that changing the thermal throttling settings for my CPU in the BIOS did DELAY all the issues I had been having. Months later, the first news popped up that 13th and 14th gen CPUs in render farms started failing after running under load for roughly half a year. That made me curious. I talked to tech savvy people I know and they confirmed that we may be onto something big here.

Fast forward to now, we are days away from Intel's official "fix" to the issue, while many specialists say that it goes much deeper than just faulty microcode and that the corrosion issue might have further consequences down the line. If they cannot turn their ship around, Intel might be facing (partial) bankruptcy and the next couple of months. Await further news of layoffs at Intel.

tl:dr

if you run a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU, DO WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE VIDEO! Your system may not have shown ANY SYMPTOMS yet, but the moment your CPU goes above the 1.5V, it WILL DEGRADE. In the past couple of months, people I tried to explain this to got very defensive and tried to convince me that it can't be the CPU, BUT IT VERY LIKELY IS!