Damn, and I had been starting to think ASRock was a pretty solid motherboard maker at this point… Not a good look…
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
Submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
lath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It might still be. The article does mention that the numbers might be caused by its popularity and that the issue isn’t exclusive to it.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
True, but the issue to me is ASRock blaming the entire problem on debris in the socket.
www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?iD=5612
After cleaning and removing debris from the CPU socket
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Looking on my asrock motherboard with 7600X. Heavy breathings
naticus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lol I’m looking at my new 9800X3D + ASRock build right now. So far so good???
kiwii4k@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
no offense but i would literally never use an asrock board unless i was 15 again scraping coins out of couch cushions
especially on high end silicon. don’t skimp that hard on a board.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Asrock is one of the best board makers for am5. They used to be a shit cheap brand but aren’t anymore.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I got an ASRock x370 board and it had fewer problems than other first gen Ryzen boards, was one of the first to support 5000 series CPUs, and it’s still working well in my NAS with no dead ports or anything.
They used to be one of the lowest quality boards, but they’ve earned my respect. My current motherboard (b550) is also ASRock and the only problem I had was the WiFi chip sucking on Linux (known issue, I replaced just the WiFi module and everything is golden). My wife has a Gigabyte board and it had some minor issues.
So yeah, ASRock is on my good list for now.
vfsh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I’ve got 2 rigs with their B450M’s and they’ve been solid for years now :shrug:
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
When I bought my B650 Lightning, Wendell from Level1Techs recommendations over the years played a big part. I haven’t found a single thing to complain about.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 days ago
… 100 dead CPUs?
That’s about how many Cybertrucks arent dead (yet) overall … tho that isn’t a fair comparison to begin with.
Nelots@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I think a bigger deal is that over 80% of them are dying on ASRock boards. Not a good look for ASRock.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are over 80% of them going in to ASRock boards in the first place?
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That sounds well below the acceptable % for doa parts, especially if ASRock is indeed nuking chips.
Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I too had a barely year old AMD CPU go pop in an ASRock motherboard about 15 years ago. Bought the same CPU again and stuck it in an ASUS board and it is still running today. I know they have a better reputation these days, but this is the kind of thing that just shouldn’t happen.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yes sir, it is indeed a known issue with these boards, however you are going to need to send yours in for us to test for the simple fact that you genuinely sound like the kind of person that would have crumbs in their socket.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I got one of these CPUs and I was running it against a much more updated Intel CPU on blender rendering using the Luxcore engine which simulates light rays. The gaming AMD CPU kicked the Intel Xeon gold 5218 to the curve.
darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
“Mindfactory’s sales information in repeated articles over several years, and its Ryzen 7 5800X, 5600X, and 5900X RMA rates are 0.58 percent, 0.52 percent, and 0.33 percent, respectively.”
Based on some very rough estimates using mindfactory and amazon sales data, the 9800x3d is in line with or below 5000 series RMA rates.
If there was real cause for concern, the RMA rate should be much higher.