- There have been more than 100 AMD Ryzen 7,9800x3d chip reports that have been dying since the launch
- The majority of failures took place on Asrock motherboards
- The cause of the question has not yet been diagnosed
Despite one of the best processors on the PC players’ market, Ryzen 7 9800X3D of AMD has been having trouble since its launch of last year. Thickness exhaustion reports have been regularly mounted, with more than 100 cases now reported.
Thanks to the heroic work of the user of Reddit Natty_overlord, a detailed compilation of the processor failure reports is available for everyone to travel, and is currently displaying a total of 108 reports of 9,800x3s dead. Most reports show that the chip died after only a few weeks or even days of use, without any apparent problems appearing before the time of disappearance.
Fortunately, most of the affected users were able to rma their processors for a reimbursement or a replacement without problem, and taking into account the thousands of Ryzen 9000 fleas that were sold, it is not a serious issue. However, that many failed chips are a little worrying, especially when we still have no idea what causes these premature deaths.
Mysterious origins
Okay, there could be a few Clues to be gleaned from the report of Natty_overlord, so we are not totally in darkness here. Of the 108 cases currently declared to fail Ryzen 9800X3D, 86 of which involved Asrock motherboards. 13 reports came from users with Asus Boards, five from MSI and one from Gigabyte.
So, is Asrock responsible? It is possible that the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer is carrying out part of the blame here; Natty_overlord has also documented 10 other Ryzen 9000 flea failures (including 9900x and 9600x), which all produced on Asrock Mobos. However, several failures on Asus and MSI motherboards seem to indicate that Asrock is not only at fault.
There is also no chipset who suffers from these problems. The majority of 9800x3d chesss were divided between the motherboards X870 and B850, with a smaller number (but not insignificant) on the X670 and B650 models. In short, there is no way to know what causes these failures, although IDD investigates without any doubt.
What you should do
Unfortunately, you cannot do much to protect yourself from this mysterious Tuage bug, unless you don’t have a Asrock motherboard, perhaps, given the heavy weighting of failure reports for Asrock equipment. If you plan to buy a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, it could be worth it to be retained at the moment.
The good news is that if your PC is affected, most reports seem to have been satisfactorily resolved via a RMA process, either directly in AMD, or to the retailer in cases involving pre-constructed PCs.
Naturally, I will continue to monitor this story and follow up with all the new details that emerge. I contacted AMD to comment, but I suspect that I will not get any fleshy information there; 108 is not a small number of dead tokens, but it is not such a large quantity that the red team Really Must fear that something is really not bad.
