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CPU fail? Asus investigates issue with its motherboards and Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Several users on Reddit running the 9800X3D chip on an Asus motherboard reported that their desktops suddenly failed to boot up.

ASUS Breaks Silence On Ryzen 7 9800X3D Failures And Launches Investigation

ASUS is the latest motherboard vendor to acknowledge that something is definitely causing Socket AM5 CPUs to fail prematurely ...
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ASRock Blames Dead AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPUs on Socket Debris

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...
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Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards

Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 chips in its motherboards. But does that really fly in the context of ...