level1tech watching three ASROCK AM5 mobos like a hawk!

I wonder if AMD forensics would find the e-fuse is blown on a lot of these? It is the first generation to support overclocking after all.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
I wonder if AMD forensics would find the e-fuse is blown on a lot of these? It is the first generation to support overclocking after all.
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Who knows? Maybe they refurbish these and send them back in the channel and the same ones keep blowing up :D

On a different note, I'm disappointed that the igorslab guy didn't get a tray of 500 CPUs and test them one by one to see how many fail.
 
MIndFactory failure rates fall well within industry norms, as I surmised they would. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-98...e-lowest-rma-rates-in-ryzen-9000-7000-series/

Raptor Lake is still the only CPU that is beyond the norm. Probably owners that have had the 14900K since before all of the mitigations. Failed to update the bios with new builds. Or were overclocking

Tom's also understands the numbers "We don't want to overstate the frequency of this issue; at the time of writing, there are around 350 reports, which sounds like a lot until you consider both that reports are not the same as verified, root-caused failures, and also the hundreds of thousands of Socket AM5 CPUs that are out there. This problem affects an infinitesimally tiny fraction of Socket AM5 users — but that doesn't make it any less frustrating, of course."

ASRock is taking all the AoE DPS on this one.
 
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ASRock is taking all the AoE DPS on this one.
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It's a conspiracy theory, but this still sounds intentional. They came out of the 7000-series debacle looking golden, while ASUS got hit hard...

(I don't believe it, but still :) )
 
LazyGamer said:
It's a conspiracy theory, but this still sounds intentional. They came out of the 7000-series debacle looking golden, while ASUS got hit hard...

(I don't believe it, but still :) )
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How high is the tinfoil hat crowd making this stuff up? This is Asus with every bad news cycle that comes their way

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Can't say - which is why the theory, uh, "works".

Basically the number and frequency of reports (say on Reddit) cannot be actually substantiated. I wouldn't go so far to say that every last one is false - but I also wouldn't go so far to say that every last one is credible either. There's just no way to verify, and plenty of initial claims have been shown to just plain be mistaken when the poster followed troubleshooting advice.
 
Would help if AMD would create a quick little tool or add functionality in Ryzen Master to check the health of the CPU. Shouldn't theoretically be a problem for them to check through Windows whether the CPU is being tortured by unnecessarily high voltages or temperatures and warn the user to take appropriate measures wayyyy before the CPU dies. It would at least give people like me some peace of mind. I don't want to buy a new mobo so I just let my 9950X3D sit unpowered in the ASROCK mobo's killer socket.

It works for me because I have a 245KF to tinker with. But I dread the day I actually need to use my 9950X3D for something important.
 
Well, if it breaks, AMD will replace it.

Thing is based on what reporting we've got from users and vendors, there's basically almost no risk - just people that do have issues are quite loud.
 
LazyGamer said:
Well, if it breaks, AMD will replace it.
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I do not want to find out how AMD treats its customers in UAE. Most likely, AMD will say, go to seller which is Amazon UAE and Amazon will say, sure, we'll send it back to Amazon UK (from which they got it) and then who knows how long that will take.
 
igor_kavinski said:
I do not want to find out how AMD treats its customers in UAE. Most likely, AMD will say, go to seller which is Amazon UAE and Amazon will say, sure, we'll send it back to Amazon UK (from which they got it) and then who knows how long that will take.
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In that case, I'd just get Arrow Lake and stop worrying about it 😅
 
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