How to stabilize 10th and 11th Generation Intel CPU's (Comet Lake, Rocket Lake)
Are you getting random reboots with your 10600k, 10700k, 11600k or 11700K Intel processor?
Unfortunately, much of the silicon for the 10th and 11th gen CPUs are not the highest quality silicon by Intel standards. They require higher core voltages and higher system agent (memory controller) voltages to run stable, especially with DDR4 RAM over 3200 mhz (yours truly is using G.Skill 3600 mhz).
For even a mild overclock, if you end up on the lower end of the silicone lottery, a core voltage (VCCIO) of 1.32 to 1.4v may be necessary, and/or a system agent voltage of 1.29 to 1.4 volts or even higher may be required just to get the CPU to run stable.
Yours truly did not fare well on the silicone lottery with a 10600k which loses stability at any system agent voltage below 1.3v.
There are some forums that claim that anything over 1.25-1.3v system agent voltage can degrade the memory controller on the CPU. But after running this 10600k for almost two years so far it has not been a problem. I have tried lowering the system agent voltage a few times only to go right back to random reboots. My CPU passes intel stress and diagnostics tests.
Ther are some motherboards with advanced AI that tune the mother board settings to the quality of your CPU and many have reported that the AI sets the system agent voltage to over 1.4v.
If you are using four sticks of RAM instead of two (it is more stable to run two) there is more voltage drop so slightly increasing the DRAM voltage setting can help.
These CPUs (a bit less so with the 11th gen), have a memory controller that does not like RAM that is super-fast. If you are running 3800mhz RAM for example, try running it at 3600mhz.
One last tip, some mainboards are not stable when you use the XMP profile for memory speed and voltage settings. It is better to set all of that up manually.
I am not claiming these to be end all of fixes, but it is worth giving a try.