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

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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.
 
Yea this is 100% why I didn't go taichi and instead got a more expensive msi board. Oof... sorry man.
 
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.
 
Brian_B said:
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.
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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).
 
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.
 
I use an ASRock X870E Taichi for my primary benchmark platform, 9800X3D, and of course I've tested all the Zen4/5 CPUs on it recently, along with 9950X3D. I've been through a ton of different BIOS's since I've been using the board and CPU since launch. I know it is cliche to say this, but no problems on my test sample size of one so far. 🤞
 
I wish there was some sort of conclusion Brent - for every report of a bricked CPU, people report being without problem too. Yet there are a lot of bricked CPU reports. It's also weird that this is being seen (or seems to be seen) at a far higher rate with ASRock boards. From what I understand, the BIOS all board makers use is based on AMDs AGESA releases and the part we see is really just the dressing. It's hard to imagine that ASRock is doing something drastically different, right?
 
One of my friends used an ASRock board for his X570 PC, and I think his current X870 PC is also using an ASRock board. He had an ASRock Radeon 6900 XT. Not sure what his current 7900 XTX is. But he's used at least a few ASRock products and hasn't had any issues so far (that I know of).
 
I have a AsRock Nova X870E as well, but replaced it with an MSI X870E Carbon board just because I didn't feel comfortable with the AsRock board even though I didn't have any issues.
 
I have a 9950x in a Taichi. Its is using default bios, and runs 100% load 24/7/365. No issues,

I also have 2 7950x (maybe 3) on Taichi boards, no issues. Personally, aside from the 13900k and the 14900k that even Intel admits are faulty (most of the time with a lot of different bios) most all other of the failures on the internet are due to overclocking the boards or overclocking the cips, and not the chips or boards themselves.
 
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