What can I do to protect my I9 14900K until the microcode update is here?

[Robot]

I recently bought an I9 14900K for my very first PC. I don't know much about it, but the current problems of the 13th and 14th gen are causing me great anxiety. I have an Asus Z790-f Gaming wifi II and as I have seen, Asus has already released 2 updates in the last few months that should make the CPU more stable. But since there still seem to be problems, I wonder if there is an easy way to protect the CPU from damage until the microcode update is here.

[JamesPang]

You can follow this reddit guide below

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/s/ajKCugsDN1

[SmartOne_2000]

1.  Load bios defaults.

2. Change to the latest Intel default profiles (Performance or Extreme) for now, with the latest 3701 bios update from Asus with the 0x125 microcode fix. Performance in synthetic benchmarks will suffer (e.g. Cinebench R23) due to the lower PL1 and PL2 power limits (253W) but it will be invisible/unnoticeable in real time applications.

3. Once done, I would run an overnight (or 12 hour minimum) AVX2 stability test from the Intel's Extreme Tuning utility. Ignore the warning messages it gives (e.g. current throttling, etc). These are due to the lower PL1/2 limits that will cause the CPU to throttle when running these tests.

If you get AVX2 errors, use AVX offset of 3 and re-run the test. Normally, from my experience with he 13900K on a Z690, these usually fail within 15 minutes. My AVX offset is 3 and so far the stress test has been running successfully for 4+ hours. No errors.