What should be the correct setting 253W or 4096W

[Sebastian2712]

Good day I have an Intel 13900K processor in my BIOS I have a tab where I can select PL1 253W and PL1 4096W when I select the 4096W setting and do a processor stress test the computer hangs and sometimes a blue screen appears, why is this happening? Does this mean that my processor is faulty and unstable? Should I replace it? Why can't my computer work on the 4096W setting? When I set 253W the computer's performance drops, it's smaller but during the test everything is fine, I have the latest Bios update and microcode 129 installed. Is my processor faulty?

[pressed_for_time]

As your screenshot shows for PL1 4096W is the MSI Unlimited Settings and 253W is the Intel Default Settings. Getting the Unlimited Setting to work depends on a number of factors mainly that really significant cooling is required. And what you are experiencing is why the Intel Default Setting (IDS) was introduced - because for most people the 4096W settings simply did not work. The issue with the earlier MSI BIOS releases is that the PL1 4096W settings were effectively the default but it wasn't clear to users that this was the case. So what you are seeing - blue screens, instability and hangs -was being experienced without any obvious clue as to what the cause was.

If your processor works OK when the IDS is selected and you have the latest BIOS/drivers I don't think you need have any concern about the 4096W settings. They are not recommended by Intel, they don't work for the vast majority of users and outside of benchmarks there is no significant performance gain.