Short and sweet, CPUs are suffering damage from over voltage. Intel places the blame on motherboards. This has been met with disbelief, but it’s the power components on the mobo that regular the voltage to the CPU. This isn’t Intel passing the buck as they are the ones who provided the specifications to the manufacturers.
Come mid August, mobo manus should have updated BIOS’s to be flashed and address issues.
Until then, set your long duration voltage max to about 125 and short duration max to 253 and you should be just fine.
I’m not sold on the overvoltage thing. Intel at first claimed it was going to solve the issues we now know are due to physical damage via microcode updates, which is complete baloney. They are just flooding the zone with **** atm.
IIRC the full press brief said the overvoltage was the Issue leading to the failures in short term usage, however there are quality issues with the silicon, and some of the internal components are degrading regardless of voltage, so in the long term the CPU will still fail.
If one were to believe that Intel is trying to drag out the voltage updates until after all the Zen5 benchmarks are out, then the recent delay by AMD to release Zen5 was a brilliant counter. I don’t actually think that is what’s going down, but it is a fun thought.