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

K. Following my review last year, I kept it in my PC for further testing and general usage, with my testing intensifying ...

AMD just announced over a dozen new laptop CPUs, which will appear in over 150 new laptops being announced at CES 2025 and later this year, including a new 3D V-Cache chip for gaming laptops and some ...

This AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT CPU is a great foundation for a new budget gaming PC build, and it's available for almost half price ...

Its design achieves better thermal handling by placing the cache ... “Compared to its predecessor, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivers up to 25 percent more performance depending on the scenario ...

Update, April 2, 2025: AMD has given us a statement regarding ... "So far there are 108 stories from people of 9800X3D which passed POST, and was working for a short amount of time before suddenly ...

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 ...

Original article follows... Despite being one of the best processors on the market for PC gamers, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been having a rough time since its launch in November last year.

The board appeared on Reddit with a damaged AMD Ryzen 9800X3D gaming CPU, and is one of several ASRock boards featured in threads about 9800X3D CPUs that have stopped working. For example ...

AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming processor cost too much for months. The price has now fallen – as have other CPUs. Some desktop processors from AMD and Intel have fallen in price in recent weeks.

AMD earlier this week released the Ryzen 9 9950X3D ... it was seen that both the Ryzen 9 9950X3D as well as the previously released Ryzen 7 9800X3D are worse off in Windows 11.