Well I for one am currently a happy camper. I was afraid my second 14700kf was dying. It started with an occasional bluescreen ( same way it started the first time). And weird things were happening, like I wake the computer up from sleep and all of a sudden all the windows would fly around the screen. Fast forward a couple days and my computer couldn't even get into windows unless I turned c-states off which basically means a fixed voltage and 40w idle power consumption. Also one time I was trying to log into windows and on the splash screen it was like somebody was doodling all over it with windows paint. Something was very wrong.
So I reseating the processor, noticed there was a couple microscoptic peices of debris on it, hoped that was reason, and then I finally updated my bios ( I am always hesitant to do this, since they often take things away as often as they give things). It upgraded my ucode to 123, which means no undervolting, but if it means a working computer, I'll take it. Besides, undervolting is really only helpful for benchmarks.
Now before I jinx myself, I've only been using my computer for like an hour since this happened so I don't know for sure now, but I've run some stress tests, and surely by now something would have happened, a blue screen, a random power off, the screen would randomly go interlaced (wtf is with that?). Hoping and praying I don't have to do another rma.
And yeah its pretty much settled in my mind now, next cpu will be AMD unless there's drastic
change to the enviroment.