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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by atq2119 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:14PM (#20016824)
Why do you think the panic happens?

It's because the code does the wrong thing, and that happens silently... until it hits some pointers or kernel structures and stops being silent.

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Re:Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All... by bayindirh on Sunday May 26, 2019 @03:19PM (#20016853)
Not always. CPUs have extensive "machine check" capabilities. some of these MCE events are recoverable, some not.

If the processor fires an unrecoverable MCE event, you're frozen with a nice, explanatory panic.

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