ASUS TUF GAMING X870-PLUS WIFI Board Seemingly Kills Proprietor’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D & 9800X3D CPUs

Late final month, ASUS launched an official assertion concerning consumer reported discrepancies between AMD 800-series motherboards and extremely well-liked “Zen 5” Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processors. At the time, the Taiwanese PC {hardware} producer suggested that prospects instantly replace related mainboard fashions with the newest BIOS revisions. Since the launch of Team Red’s 3D V-Cache-augmented Ryzen 9000-series “Granite Ridge” CPUs, nearly all of “killings” have been recorded on ASRock-made AM5 boards. Unfortunately, an elevated variety of processor failures—when platformed on ASUS designs—have been tracked in current months. Yesterday, one other puzzling case was introduced on the official ASUS subreddit. Bizarrely, UniverseWillDecide’s story concerned each of Team Red’s 8-core gaming champion fashions, paired with an ASUS TUF Gaming X870-PLUS WIFI motherboard. The first construct iteration was based mostly across the Ryzen 7 9800X3D SKU.

UniverseWillDecide recounted a short honeymoon interval: “everything was working fine for a week or so, until my system started (going into) these weird freezes or locks ups, while booting into Windows or being idle. OCCT memory test passed without any errors, so memory was cleared, but it started crashing with AVX2. I got pissed off and decided to return it to Amazon, since it was still 30 day return window.” The Australian PC fanatic moved onto the not too long ago launched Ryzen 7 9850X3D mannequin, bought throughout AMD’s official launch interval. The unfortunate proprietor loved problem-free expertise: “for (a) few weeks, (but) guess what. The chip is dead too. I am not blaming AMD directly, but I suspect…something related to the ASUS BIOS applying incorrect voltages. I am…above and beyond disappointed, and not sure what to do (next). I also have (an) ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5090 (card)—I bought it because I believed this company builds quality products.

Their mighty build also included an Arctic Liquid Freezer 3 Pro 360 mm AIO, G.Skill Neo 6000 MT/s memory, and a Corsair RM1000X PSU. UniverseWillDecide did not observe any visible burn marks on the failed pair of gaming CPUs. They tracked worrying “chip degradation” on the freshest BIOS launch, in addition to on rolled again variations. Hours after publishing their preliminary story, the pissed off (quickly to be former) ASUS model fanatic acknowledged that they had been weighing up premium mainboards produced by different manufacturers. It appears that UniverseWillDecide’s DIY system was one of many first examples able to ending a brand-new Ryzen 7 9850X3D chip’s life.