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

A redditor by the name of “TrumpPooPoosPants” has shared an image of an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor and MSI MAG X870 ...

who says that the board has no obvious damage or burn marks, and that it just required a clean-up to get it to boot with a CPU again. The board appeared on Reddit with a damaged AMD Ryzen 9800X3D ...

According to another Reddit post tracking the failures, "So far there are 108 stories from people of 9800X3D which passed POST, and was working for a short amount of time before suddenly dying ...

AMD has responded to reports of 108 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs unexpectedly dying in ... a motherboard from a system where the CPU showed burn damage. It claimed there was no burn damage around the ...

"So far there are 108 stories from people of 9800X3D which passed POST, and was working for a short amount of time before suddenly dying with no signs of failure." In other words, all of the dead ...

Despite more than a hundred recorded failures to post with the 9800X3D, AMD insists it's a minor ... “The motherboard did not have burn marks, and it was just debris that needed some cleaning ...

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