- There have been more than 100 reports of AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3d Chips dying since the launch
- Most of the errors have occurred on ASROCK motherboard
- The reason for the problem is not yet diagnosed
Despite being one of the best processors in the PC players market, AMDS Ryzen 7 9800x3D has had a tough time since launching last November. Reports of chip-killing burnout are steadily mounted, with more than 100 cases now reported.
Thanks to the heroic work of Reddit -User NATTY_OVERLORD, a detailed collection of CPU error reports is available for everyone to review, and currently showing a total of 108 reports of dead 9800x3DS. Most reports show that the chip dies after just a few weeks or even days of use, without any obvious problems emerging before the moment of death.
Fortunately, most affected users have been able to RMA their CPUs for either a refund or a replacement without any problems, and given the thousands of Ryzen 9000 chips sold, it’s not a serious problem. Still, many failed chips are a bit about, especially when we still have essentially zero idea, what causes these premature deaths.
Mysterious origin
Okay that can be some clues to be collected from NATTY_OVERLORD’s report, so we’re not quite in the dark here. Of the 108 currently reported cases of Ryzen 9800x3d-Fiasko, a huge 86 of them involved asrock motherboards. 13 reports were from users with ASUS boards, five from MSI and one from Gigabyte.
So is ASRock responsible? It is possible that the Taiwan motherboard manufacturer carries part of the blame here; NATTY_OVERLORD also documented 10 other Ryzen 9000 chip errors (including 9900X and 9600X), all of which occurred on Asrock Mobos. Still, several failures on the ASUS and the MSI base cards seem to indicate that Asrock is not just fault.
There doesn’t seem to be any chipset suffering from these problems, nor. The majority of 9800x3D errors were divided between X870 and B850 motherboards with a smaller (but not insignificant) number of X670 and B650 models. In short, there is no way to know what is causing these failures, although AMD undoubtedly investigates.
What you are going to do
Unfortunately, there is not much you can do to protect yourself from this mysterious chip-killing bug, without just not having an asrockback, perhaps given the heavy weight of error reports for asrock hardware. If you have considered buying a Ryzen 7 9800x3d, it may be worth staying off for the time being.
The good news is that if your PC is affected, most reports appear to have been satisfactorily resolved via an RMA process, either directly to AMD or to the retailer in cases involving pre-built PCs.
Of course, I will continue to monitor this story and will follow up with any fresh details that arise. I’ve reached AMD for comment, but I suppose I won’t get any fleshy info there; 108 is not a small number of dead chips but it is not as large quantity as the team red really Need to worry about something being seriously wrong.
