The problems surrounding the Ryzen 7 9800X3D continue to pour in, and there are already more than a hundred cases reported on Reddit in particular. In the vast majority of cases, the processors were working with an ASRock motherboard. But there are also cases involving ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte motherboards. In short, it’s hard to find a common denominator here.
Ryzen 7 9800X3D: over a hundred CPUs knocked out!
There are currently more than a hundred cases of Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs that have become inoperable, or even burnt out. While most of these cases concern configurations based on ASRock motherboards, other manufacturers such as ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte have not been spared either.
However, the strangest part of this story concerns cases where processors have been damaged, but the motherboards are still working. For its part, ASRock carried out its own internal investigation and told us that everything was fine with its X870E Nova.
is 100 cases a lot or not?
But what’s actually going on? It’s hard to say. All the cases seem to be fairly unique in the sense that finding the common denominator in these failures is no easy task. While some cases involve CPUs that have been knocked out after activating the EXPO memory profile, others involve CPUs that have been overclocked. Finally, some users have seen their CPUs die with the default bios settings.
What’s more, the lifespan of the CPU seems fairly random, with some models dying within moments of assembling the configuration: 30 minutes, just long enough to install Windows. In other cases, the configuration may last a week, two days, a month… In short, it’s completely random.
However, if we tend to focus on the problems, we should remember that this represents around a hundred cases of CPU failure. That’s compared with the thousands of processors sold, so these cases are still very much in the minority. However, they are still significant, as some processors show signs of burning, which is synonymous with either an installation error or a power surge.
