My Ryzen 9 9950X Died... on an ASRock Motherboard (talking head)

[LazyGamer]

From Tech YES City:

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I personally have an X870E Nova and 9800X3D sitting in the closet... waiting for some resolution to the issues folks are seeing. So far there's been radio silence from AMD and ASRock, with the social media consensus trending toward an avoidance of ASRock boards.

 

[Grimlakin]

Yea this is 100% why I didn't go taichi and instead got a more expensive msi board. Oof... sorry man.

 

[Brian_B]

Have to admit I've always avoided Asrock. They just always looked flimsy. A lot of folks have had great luck with them though. Doesn't mean I'm happy to see this though, by any means. It sucks. Hope they work it out amicably for all involved.

 

[LazyGamer]

Have to admit I've always avoided Asrock. They just always looked flimsy. A lot of folks have had great luck with them though. Doesn't mean I'm happy to see this though, by any means. It sucks. Hope they work it out amicably for all involved.

Their cheaper boards are without a doubt... well, flimsy works. Used with care they can be problem free.

But generally above that you get more than you're paying for. ASRock regularly puts out boards in configurations or with features that other companies refuse to touch, or charge an extra US$500 to US$1000 for.

That's the case with their X870E Nova; it's really the best set up board available. MSI's Carbon is close but is even more expensive. Might be what I wind up with if I decide to disposition this Nova.

Really this is exacerbated by motherboard makers seemingly throwing all their resources into Intel's Z890 platform, only for Intel to fumble Arrow Lake's gaming performance making the whole lot generally undesirable by the primary consumer of higher-end boards. X870E very clearly didn't get much love; the chipset is not new of course, but there's still improvements to configuration and layout that could have been made (see why the Nova is popular).

 

[Grimlakin]

Yea and arrow lake just got called out because their NVME Native channels on the 890 chipset motherboards are not full pcie5x4 bandwidth for the high speed NVME drives out there. That's gotta hurt them even more. For those that want that drive speed at least.