Another case of a dead Ryzen 9 9950X3D appeared on Reddit and, once again, it's on the ASRock X870 Pro RS motherboard.
Ryzen 9 9950X3D Dies Within Three Weeks After a Few Hours of Gaming Session
This is apparently the third case of a dead Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU, reported right after when a Redditor showed one of the first cases of 9950X3D failure. Even though in both cases, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D died, they are both different in regard to the damage incurred.
In the previous case, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D was damaged without any signs of damage, but this one literally exploded. Surprisingly, both had the same motherboard model: ASRock X870 PRO RS, and it's no surprise that most X3D CPU failures have been reported on ASRock motherboards.
The user reported that his system was only three weeks old, and he bought the CPU from Micro Center. The system didn't show any unusual signs, but the CPU was running somewhat hotter than usual even on ideal with 50-58 degrees Celcius. This was despite using a decent AIO cooler. The system did fine on light workloads and gaming, but as per the user, he tried to increase the load to see if there was anything wrong with the system.
After several hours, he found his system had turned off and didn't post despite removing the GPU. Upon removing the CPU from the socket, he found a bulge on the CPU, revealing that his 9950X3D had died. The motherboard pins weren't bent or damaged but were discolored due to high voltage/temperature.
This is similar to what we saw in one such incident where ASRock reported that their motherboard worked totally fine, and they found no damage to the socket, but rather it was debris that caused the death of the CPU. However, such incidents show that there is something wrong with how the voltage is managed and supplied to the CPUs on ASRock motherboards, particularly the 800 series.
Nonetheless, these incidents are replicated on motherboards by other vendors. ASRock still leads all of them as we saw that the majority of the 100+ reported cases were on ASRock motherboards. The question is why hasn't this issue been deeply investigated yet, as we see such cases almost every other day.
News Source: Reddit
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