Going by r/Intel and r/hardware disturbing silence, Intel won't need to spend much on lawyers.
First: what a bad hot take.
Second: That's not how it works. Intel has a legal department with approx. 280 employees. I guarantee you there is a team within that department hard at work over this debacle.
I also have no idea how you missed the 4 day old story on r/hardware that is near the top of the feed.
BTW, PCMR has 3x the members and there have been multiple big threads about it.
FYI - r/Intel has a pinned Q2 tech support thread. There a multiple users with 13 and 14 K series crashing
"Hi, I find myself in a situation where my i9 14900k CPU needs the Intel baseline profile to play certain games without continuous crashes. In this case, is this normal or would it be appropriate to open an RMA? Thank you"
Intel support - "We sense your worry with your Intel processor. We reckon that you are using an Asus board since their newest BIOS update allows users to set it to an Intel baseline profile. We also surmise that the Intel Baseline profile altered the SVID BIOS setting to 'Intel Fail Safe.' If this is accurate, and you are no longer experiencing crashes, then this behavior is expected and, therefore, normal."
"Summary of issue:
Frequent crashes in Counter strike 2: nvgpucomp64.dll crashes.
What I have tried:
I have reinstalled with DDU
reset my in-game graphics settings
tested in windows 10 and 11
verified game files in CS2 on steam files
disabled XMP
enable XMP
Memtest no error
Confirmed issues is still present. disabled hyper threads in BIOS setting help abit, but not much.
rare crashed in prime95 when i run large FFT
I see many who got 13900K or 14900K have major problem with frequent crashes in CS2 with same error nvgpucomp64.dll.
Memory leaks?
Another thing i want to tell:
I have a friend who got new gaming PC (prebulid) 2 days ago and PC have 14900K and crashed like me nvgpucomp64.dll. disabled hyper threads did solved issues. But its it normal?
Another user responding-
"I had the same issue with my 14900k, it got worse and worse with my old CPU, tried setting PL1 and PL2 to 253, but that didnt help. Crashed faster with xmp on.
When i got my new cpu i got one crash with XMP.
I've had no crashes after setting PL1/PL2 to 253 watt, MCE off and 307A max current (i think this one was the most important). Now my game is stable and i can run XMP at 7200.
I tested stability with y-cruncher, as it crashed as well.
Kinda sucks that you buy a overclockable -k CPU that cant boost itself :/"
Support response -
"
Since you are having crashes on other applications, please try the following:
- There is a new update for your motherboard that shows improvements regarding game stability bios version 2202. Please try to update your BIOS to that version and use the Intel Baseline Profile option.
- If that does not work, change SVID behavior to "Intel Fail Safe". Download Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU) and run an AVX 2 stress test, then check if you will have crashes still
- If you still have crashes after trying our recommendations, you can contact Intel Customer Support to get an RMA."
There are more posts like that. So for the time being they are trying to gaslight users into living with reduced performance on a potentially/probably broken CPU. And to only RMA if even those lower performance settings fail to stabilize the system. Nevermind you bought the CPU because of the performance claims and benchmarks. Or that if it finishes crapping the bed completely after the 3yr warranty you are SOOL.