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Gururu Using adjectives like "extremely rare" or "quite small" doesn't help the situation. It's only been a year since their release and we are in the 100s (of those at least spoken to by a vocal few). Reply
bolweval Gururu said: Using adjectives like "extremely rare" or "quite small" doesn't help the situation. It's only been a year since their release and we are in the 100s (of those at least spoken to by a vocal few). If this were Nvidia and their new connector they would saying these were on fire and needs a recall… Reply
spaceminions bolweval said: If this were Nvidia and their new connector they would saying these were on fire and needs a recall… Who's they? GN has been pretty realistic about problems no matter which manufacturer they're associated with. I think you're showing your favoritism. Reply
bolweval spaceminions said: Who's they? GN has been pretty realistic about problems no matter which manufacturer they're associated with. I think you're showing your favoritism. Who's GN? This is Toms Hardware and I can't tell you how many headlines I've seen here about "Nividia connector catches fire!" I don't play favorites, just calling it like i see it. Maybe your favoritism is showing? Reply
Marlin1975 Gururu said: Using adjectives like "extremely rare" or "quite small" doesn't help the situation. It's only been a year since their release and we are in the 100s (of those at least spoken to by a vocal few). Not only that but they are still failing after they "fixed" the issue. I would steer clear of all Asrock until there is a real long-term solution that can be verified outside of asrock. Reply
DS426 We're off to the races with several of you adding no value at all to this conversation. The important things here are that: AMD and board vendors have 1) acknowledged the issue and 2) are actively looking into it (and of course not just saying that) AMD and board vendors aren't blaming users for "user failure" unless that can be proven Warranties are honored (and possibly including hardware replacements even beyond warranty since it's an ongoing investigation)I don't know that ASRock necessarily has higher failure rates, or at least not statistically significantly higher, but I would have expected a response sooner; it seems like they made the announcement only because ASUS and MSI did. That's all the had to do — say "we're looking into it" and "we'll take care of our customers." Reply
spaceminions bolweval said: Who's GN? This is Toms Hardware and I can't tell you how many headlines I've seen here about "Nividia connector catches fire!" I don't play favorites, just calling it like i see it. Maybe your favoritism is showing? I directly quote from this article " Hardware YouTubers Gamers Nexus have put quite a few hours into trying to intentionally cause this kind of failure, and their efforts have largely been in vain, even when using a motherboard that was known to have already killed a processor once. " GN is Tom's citation as to people who have attempted to replicate the failure and failed. Failure to replicate this issue while easily replicating AND proposing a reasonable explanation of Nvidia's connector issue is a pretty good indication that one is not like the other. Reply
spaceminions DS426 said: We're off to the races with several of you adding no value at all to this conversation. The important things here are that: AMD and board vendors have 1) acknowledged the issue and 2) are actively looking into it (and of course not just saying that) AMD and board vendors aren't blaming users for "user failure" unless that can be provenI don't know that ASRock necessarily has higher failure rates, or at least not statistically significantly higher, but I would have expected a response sooner; it seems like they made the announcement only because ASUS and MSI did. That's all the had to do — say "we're looking into it" and "we'll take care of our customers." Yeah, this is at the stage where everyone's just looking into things. It's pretty normal to get little satisfying info at first. Being realistic about the knowns and unknowns rather than speculating wildly is good journalism, and it was good to point out that hundreds out of hundreds of thousands is still a low percentage because that supports the idea that the failures can be difficult to replicate. Reply
magbarn I'd be more satisfied if AMD extended the warranty like Intel did with Raptor Lake failures. That 3 year warranty doesn't look that good if this issue may be inevitable over time or the prior bios already did hidden damage to the chip. Reply
Nvijork So THAT's why my CPU blew up 3 months ago. The repair place thought it was just a fluke, hope it doesn't happen again. Reply
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