The Ryzen 9800X3D and 9950X3D are burning out in alarming numbers, and motherboard firmware could be the root cause.

AMD is responsible for some of the best processors for gamers right now, but for a handful of unlucky users, these CPUs seem to be running into issues lately. Reports from Reddit indicate failures ...

This week saw a Redditor compile a list of 108 Reddit posts involving a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that died, along with 12 other Ryzen ...

Update 4/3/2025: An AMD ... CPU. We recommend users start by updating their BIOS to the latest version available for their specific motherboard model. Hopefully, updating the BIOS will fix these ...

Reddit user natty_overlord compiled a list of all 108 Reddit posts involving a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that died. The chips passed ...

If you’ve been keeping an eye on the latest gaming PC hardware news, you’ve probably heard that AMD’s latest ... beyond memory timing issues, and these are often in CPUs that passed the ...

Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs continues. Yesterday, we reported on a tally of well over 100 reports of dead Ryzen 7 9800 X3Ds on Reddit , most ...

AMD's hotly anticipated 16-core Zen 5 CPU with 3D V-Cache is here, and it doesn't disappoint. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D maintains the high boost clocks of the 9950X but adds the extra L3 cache chip to ...

Should the boot issue continue post-update, further technical assistance is available through ASRock’s support services. We are aware of a number of cases where some AMD CPUs have boot issues ...

It’s no secret that AMD has been dominating ... (I’ve held off switching our CPU testing to the RTX 5090 due to some early Nvidia driver issues.) To truly see where it fits, I’ve run a ...