I7 14700k not reliable

[Robot101010]

HI community I have an I7 14700k with an MSI Z790 Carbon MB along with some Corsair Vengeance 6400/32 MB ram and an Nvidia FE 4090 .I was loading up RDR2 this morning and I've already gotten an out of video memory error and I put on Battlefield V and I've got a blue-screen from it ,it also crashed several times while compiling shaders for The last of us ,Pt1.

I have PL1 and PL2 set to  253  and 307 A but it was not stable so I've dropped PL1 and PL2 to 220 watts and its still not reliable I have a 240 water-cooled setup .

I am running the latest Bios from MSI for my board and I feel fed up with this ,I need something that is reliable ,it is only 8 weeks old .

[Robot101010]

So Intel what do I do with this ? Should I contact the retailer ? Will you help ? I don’t know what else to do !  I need a processor that is reliable  and I don’t know what else I can do ?…help …..

I’ve tried to play Remnant 2 and it has crashed to desktop 6 times , most games I try to load crash back to desktop a few times and crash after I’ve played them for a little while .I would buy AMD if I could afford it now but I have invested in your platform ,which does not work …

I’m also getting watchdog timeout errors on occasion.

[Robot101010]

I’ve turned off the Nvidia overlay  from the Nvidia app and that has reduced the crashing a lot .I’ve also went back to my older bios as it was more stable .I have set the voltage to 230 PL1 and PL2 and I have the cpu at lite load 4 in the bios .

These things have reduced a lot of the crashing and the out of memory errors but the performance has decreased and I now get 33700 in R23 multi and 2100 single .Can I not just have a cpu that I plug in and it works .

[CoolBook]

What are your CPU temperatures?

[Robot101010]

Mid 80s on r23 multi run .

[CoolBook]

Then contact the retailer for RMA.

You could try running the RAM at stock and reduce max core frequency as an experiment. 

[Robot101010]

Why ? what should it be ?

[Totaledm · Accepted solution]

Hi, This looks like your ram is having issues, I dont think that your cpu/gpu/mobo is the issue.
I did see that you have 6400mhz with i7, when going above 5600mhz then unstable may happen because i7 can handle 5600mhz max.

Set your ram speed at 5600mhz and try with one ram at the time.

Ram is often reason why crashing happens, and upgrade your cooler to lower temp under 80c to avoid futher crashes, temp is bad and can crash your games.

[CoolBook]

Well, both the i7 and i9 officially only support 5600MT/s.

You could of course lose the silicon lottery and get a bad chip that technically is within that specification.

Normally 6400MT/s is considered pretty low even for the i7. It all depends on the combination of RAM and MB of course.

I run  6600MT/s with the 13700k and I have managed 4 x 32GB at 5600MT/s with the 14700k.