Energy96 Gururu said: Waiting for all the "nothing to look at here" responses… lol, it’s not an AMD problem though I’m sure you wish it was. It’s an Asus and Asrock problem. Personally I never liked either of those brands motherboards. Reply
Gururu Energy96 said: lol, it’s not an AMD problem though I’m sure you wish it was. It’s an Asus and Asrock problem. Personally I never liked either of those brands motherboards. The only thing I would wish for is that everyone would equally show support for all the products. Healthy competition = best value. Reply
TechieTwo IME Asus always pushes the operating envelope to get favorable reviews of their products. In the case of 3D GPU's they may just be pushing too high of voltages killing the chips. Reply
-Fran- Anecdotal, but I think it's fairly relevant: I have a 9950X3D and a X870E-E with zero issues. I have all voltages and limits well enforced though, so I'm not letting Asus decide what to do with the CPU (that much). I'm wondering if this is people clicking on "OC the heck out of the CPU" and letting it rip? Supposedly, AMD made it clear to partners to enforce the voltage limits from the last round of reported failures, so I'm wondering what this one could be about. Regards. Reply
Energy96 Gururu said: The only thing I would wish for is that everyone would equally show support for all the products. Healthy competition = best value. I support (with my wallet) whoever is offering the best product at the time. Reply
Energy96 -Fran- said: Anecdotal, but I think it's fairly relevant: I have a 9950X3D and a X870E-E with zero issues. I have all voltages and limits well enforced though, so I'm not letting Asus decide what to do with the CPU (that much). I'm wondering if this is people clicking on "OC the heck out of the CPU" and letting it rip? Supposedly, AMD made it clear to partners to enforce the voltage limits from the last round of reported failures, so I'm wondering what this one could be about. Regards. I have a 9950x3d on an MSI Godlike and no issues either. I typically use Gigabyte or MSI boards. I didn’t like Gigabytes offerings as much at the time of purchase. Reply
txfeinbergs Energy96 said: I support (with my wallet) whoever is offering the best product at the time. ^ What this guy said. There is no loyalty anymore. My motto is ruthless disloyalty. I have switched from Intel to AMD and back to Intel already once, and getting ready to switch back to AMD in a few months. It makes no sense to blindly follow a company because I guarantee, they don't care about you. Reply
TerryLaze Energy96 said: lol, it’s not an AMD problem though I’m sure you wish it was. It’s an Asus and Asrock problem. Personally I never liked either of those brands motherboards. There is no protection mechanism in the new ryzen CPUs to prevent voltages from smoking the CPU…but it's not AMDs fault that they didn't include one…. We knew it from the first day when der8auer went to oc one of the first x3d CPUs with normal settings he was using on all previous AMD CPUs and it just died right away. Reply
Gururu TerryLaze said: There is no protection mechanism in the new ryzen CPUs to prevent voltages from smoking the CPU…but it's not AMDs fault that they didn't include one…. We knew it from the first day when der8auer went to oc one of the first x3d CPUs with normal settings he was using on all previous AMD CPUs and it just died right away. I always thought ASRock got a bad rap, but it indeed could have been as Hothardware indicates: "ASRock's name comes up most often largely because ASRock users were the ones doing the legwork; a centralized tracking effort on Reddit within the r/ASRock community logged well over a hundred reported failures. That created the impression of an ASRock-specific problem, but failures have been reported on ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Colorful, and even Biostar boards as well, just without the same level of crowd-sourced bookkeeping. MSI has also previously issued a statement on this issue that echoes ASUS' above." It's barely been over a year since the 9800X3D has been released. I have not seen a solid explanation from ASRock but I wonder if their boards will prove more safe than other makers since the BIOS updates. Reply
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