The customer will now receive a replacement for his damaged Ryzen 9 7950X3D, though it took intervention from a YouTuber for AMD to reverse course.
AMD Resolves Damaged Ryzen 9 7950X3D Issue, For Which it Refused to Provide a Replacement Earlier
Recently, a user reported that he had his Ryzen 9 7950X3D unexpectedly damaged despite having no manual overclocking done to the chip. After inspection, it appeared that the substrate of the Ryzen 9 7950X3D was swollen, so the customer sent it for RMA to AMD. While GIGABYTE cleared his motherboard of any faults, AMD did not.
AMD did acknowledge that the CPU has been damaged, but it simply refused to provide a replacement for the chip, citing that physical damage is not covered. AMD has been giving replacements for such damaged CPUs, which are well-known on the AM5 platform. We have been reporting such incidents for a while now, and as far as we can recall, AMD was doing great, as it offered replacements for most damaged Ryzen 7000/9000 chips.
When the Redditor u/VINCENT199411 reported this incident to AMD, the company simply refused a replacement without a proper investigation, as per the user. Luckily, Hardware Unboxed tagged AMD on X, saying, "If AMD doesn't make it right before the end of the week, it will be another marketing disaster". Looks like AMD listened, and made the right decision of offering a replacement to the user.
HUB quoted their tweet with another one today, informing everybody that AMD told them that they will be offering a replacement CPU for the damaged Ryzen 7 7950X3D. Had HUB not stepped in, AMD wouldn't likely have provided a replacement part. It's disappointing to see companies fail to honor RMA requests despite their commitments, leaving customers with little discourse until a big YouTuber or a media outlet brings public attention to the issue.
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