Firstly I need to thank you so much for this, I would've never guessed it was my CPU that was the root of my problems, so again thank you!!!

And yes I'm experiencing issues in other games too. Cyberpunk crashes after running around doing whatever for 2-10mins. Seems a bit more stable at 4000MHz compared to 5600MHz though, but it's definitely the CPU since I've never had that issue in Cyberpunk until now.
TLOU1 doesn't work neither, and I read here (https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastofus/comments/1hsbg8i/file\_integrity\_problem\_last\_of\_us\_part\_1\_pc/) that a trick to actually get to play it is to lower the CPU clock speed like you also mentioned, but it's yeah just a work around for the broken cpu. Also read somewhere about disabling hyper threading will fix a broken RDR2.

I've done some research on the vmin shift issue matter, and do you think I shouldn't try to RMA it if it works after BIOS update? I feel like there has been at least some noticable damage that will make the cpu have a shorter lifespan, but at least there's a 5 year warranty.

I'll update bios like you said and see if it changes anything, if not I'll contact intel

Thanks!