anecdotally, probably at least 25% of enthusiasts have had a cpu that "randomly died" or "started getting unstable over time" even though they supposedly never

anecdotally, probably at least 25% of enthusiasts have had a cpu that "randomly died" or "started getting unstable over time" even though they supposedly never overclocked it, and the leading cause there is memory controller degradation caused by XMP. I had a 9900K fail due to XMP, no other overclocking.