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Pemalite said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

https://wccftech.com/three-more-ryzen-9800x3d-deaths-reported-on-asus-motherboards-in-a-single-day/

First Asrock, now Asus? Why does this shit keep happening?

CPU's use a lot of power and put out a lot of heat these days... It's not like the old Socket Super 7 days where you can put a heatsink without any thermal paste on a naked CPU die and call it a day and still get temps of around 60-70c.
Plus CPU's these days are typically run at their limits in terms of voltage/frequency to get every single drop of performance out of the hardware and that leaves very little room for error when it comes to voltage/frequency scaling... So any bullshit in the BIOS can have catastrophic consequences on parts that are already near their limits. (I.E. PBO)

Combine that with a cheapening of motherboard components like VRM/Mosfets and so forth, with new power standards/cables... And that compounds the issues.

The 9950X has a higher TDP than the 9800X3D, and yet we haven't seen cases of it burning down. I don't think that is one of the causes for all these troubles.

Unless Asus has done an AsRock and has launched a messy BIOS, killing those CPUs, we should start asking AMD why so many of their new cache on the bottom X3D processors are dying. Maybe the design can be improved.

Darc Requiem said:

I ended up getting a 9070XT. My local Microcenter has a model for MSRP and I was able to sell my 7900XTX to cover the costs. I was on the fence but with everything going up in cost and my 7900XTX being more valuable than I thought, I said way not. I'm tired of wanting to see if official FRS4 INT8 support was coming to the 7000 series. Good news for everyone else. I have awful luck. So now that I sold my 7900XTX, AMD will probably make announcemnt next week...

Congratulations! Finding a 9070XT at MSRP nowadays is almost a miracle.

I hope it gives you many hours of great gaming experiences.