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haxxiy said:

Or it's just Twitter nonsense like the cracked die hysteria. GPU drivers can't change the VBIOS, let alone the BIOS.

The only way I can see anything like this being feasible is if there's some sort of rare Radeon Software-Ryzen Master interaction that can trigger a crash at initialization when combined with manual CPU overclocking.

But it's more likely that, if there's any truth at all, that's just loading a bad GPU profile that has nothing to do with the motherboard. That's why the updater resets settings by default unless you specifically turn that option off..

Well actually, if you have a Radeon card and you pair it with a Ryzen CPU, it can in fact happen and has happened in the past:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/adrenalin-gpu-drivers-cause-ryzen-instability

AMD themselves even confirmed it:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-confirms-its-gpu-drivers-are-overclocking-cpus-without-asking

"AMD has confirmed to Tom's Hardware that a bug in its GPU driver is, in fact, changing Ryzen CPU settings in the BIOS without permission. This condition has been shown to auto-overclock Ryzen CPUs without the user's knowledge."

But if you pair Ryzen CPU + Nvidia GPU or Intel CPU + Radeon GPU, this won't happen

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 15 February 2023