level1tech watching three ASROCK AM5 mobos like a hawk!

igor_kavinski said:
He does have an ASUS mobo. They were, I think, the first one to start showing voltage related issues with AM5 CPUs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/11yfw1q/new_r9_7950x3d_are_burn
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This happened when the 7xx0X3D series dropped, way back when - the CPUs would grenade in the socket due to an electrical short, taking the board (via the socket) with them.

Pretty terrible failure mode, but one that was also pretty quickly fixed and completely different from what we're seeing with the 9xx0X3D CPUs.
 
LazyGamer said:
completely different from what we're seeing with the 9xx0X3D CPUs.
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Aren't there similarities? That Reddit one died on the desktop doing basically nothing which we know is not really nothing since Windows processes keep bugging the CPU cores and making them hit really high clocks. This is somewhat similar to people just watching movies or browsing on their failed 9000X3Ds which are also very lightly threaded tasks.
 
igor_kavinski said:
Aren't there similarities? That Reddit one died on the desktop doing basically nothing which we know is not really nothing since Windows processes keep bugging the CPU cores and making them hit really high clocks. This is somewhat similar to people just watching movies or browsing on their failed 9000X3Ds which are also very lightly threaded tasks.
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The 9xx03D CPUs are dying... but they're not exploding. The person in that Reddit thread either did something really unwise, or just got really, really unlucky.

Unless we have a new failure mode, but one does not make a trend, so :)
 
My hot take: Any anecdotal results from users that tune/overclock, should be studiously ignored. Nor should you trust randoms for either methodology or honestly. I.E. always err on the side of PICNIC first. Until the numbers become too large to ignore.
 
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