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

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 ...

Efforts to repair this specific board appear to be in direct response to a previous report of one Ryzen 7 9800X3D burning out on an ASRock motherboard. In fact, the "socket damage" on the board ...

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 ...

More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards. According to data culled from Reddit, 98 of the fancy 3D V-Cache processors ...

MSI issues a statement on burnt AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and X870 motherboard socket MSI responds to the case of the burned out Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU and Tomahawk X870 motherboard, confirms that it's ...

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 ...

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.

However, the feature is a known performance hog and in a new test, it was seen that both the Ryzen 9 9950X3D as well as the previously released Ryzen 7 9800X3D are worse off in Windows 11.

But if you’re trying to pick the best CPU for gaming, then AMD’s 9800X3D and 9950X3D are a tough choice to pick between. The former is far more affordable, but it also misses out on eight full ...