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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
To be more specific, at one recent count on Reddit, 98 9800X3Ds are reported to have expired in ASRock motherboards. But ...
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs continues. Yesterday, we reported on a ...
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What is UEFI, and how it is different from a normal BIOS?
It is non-volatile and stored on a small memory chip so that its settings are saved and stored even after powering off your PC. There is no need to install the BIOS as it comes preinstalled on all ...
AMD blames failing Ryzen 9000 chips on memory issues
After over 100 reports of damaged CPUs, AMD and ASRock blame memory timing and claim it's been fixed in BIOS. Dead CPUs say ...
AMD responds to reports of 9800X3D CPU issues
Despite being one of the best processors on the market for PC gamers, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been having a rough time ...
AMD responds to Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU failures, blames memory compatibility issues
This week saw a Redditor compile a list of 108 Reddit posts involving a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that died, along with 12 other Ryzen ...