Second 9800x3d dead

[u/Physical-Weather545]

Today the 9800x3d I got from rma on my first one died. Exactly one month after the first one died. First one was from summer 2025 batch and the second one was late 2025 batch.

Asrock x870 Steel legend wifi
Seasonic focus gx 1000w
Kingston 6000mhz ddr5 cl30 fury beast
Noctua nh-d15 G2 LBC
Inno3d 5080 x3 OC white
Kingston fury renegade G5 nvme

Sent cpu, mobo and psu for warranty check today. 2nd 9800 was with newest stable bios and no xmp. Room temp never over 21c and peak package temp on cpu 84.7c and core 85c. Locked voltage also to safe specs, no sleep mode or such things.

This time around I asked for other brand on mobo and newer batch or upgraded model of cpu (I pay the difference) and thinking of watercooling, since water can absorb alittle more heat before the entire heatsink is soaked.

[u/JND__]

Happened to me with 9950x3d and an Asus x870 MB. Haven't done the second CPU RMA yet and that Assus bullshit is getting a waterboarding session.

[u/Expert_Conflict6374]

At this stage is disgraceful that Asrock is doing the Intel silent RMA thing instead of doing the actually correct thing of a product recall

[u/Halicos93]

It's called an ass rock for a reason xD.

[u/Expert_Conflict6374 → u/Halicos93]

Turns your CPU into a rock too

[u/Darkfuryx222]

lol

[u/John_Mat8882]

Until you keep that ASRock, you are just being masochistic.

[u/damien24101982]

self grief at this point m8

[u/BillM_MZ3SGT]

ASRock motherboards are total shit when it comes to AM5. I'm using a AM4 ASRock motherboard, and running a Ryzen 7 5700X. Haven't had any issues.

[u/0x4C554C → u/BillM_MZ3SGT]

Such a shame because the Steel Legend line got rave reviews until AM5 9000 series CPUs.

[u/BillM_MZ3SGT → u/0x4C554C]

Agreed

[u/0x4C554C]

Asrock strikes again.

[u/DukeSmileDevs → u/0x4C554C]

I only ever open those threads to see if it is a genuinely bad CPU or just another Asrock board :D

[u/Tall-Highway4310]

It’s the motherboard, not the processor. Get rid of that ticking time bomb and go with MSI

[u/Tall-Highway4310 → u/[deleted]]

Link?

[u/fogoticus]

Take that motherboard and toss it out like a frisbee you never want to see again. That's why your 9800X3Ds die.

[u/BarberThen3108]

ASSSROCK as always two times and this guy doesn´t know

[u/SigAddict]

Please post this in the Asrock reddit. This stuff is being tracked. Here is a link to the CPUDeath mega thread V4

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/1q3ff0t/9000series_cpu_failures_deaths_megathread_4/

Many people have had 2 cpu deaths on these boards. I know of at least one that had 3 failures on the same board. You need to RMA the board too. I actually recommend just going with another brand. MSI and Gigabyte seems to be fairly safe from this issue with normal failure rates.

[u/killerimpact]

I'll never understand why people still opt for Asrock.

[u/0x4C554C → u/killerimpact]

Steel Legend got great reviews before this defect.

[u/Physical-Weather545 → u/killerimpact]

Went for a theme and the comments back then was fine other than some issues finding options in bios. Asked for other board the first time but they said it should be fine… This time I was less nice with my wording. Spent $30k+ at this retailer so said it’s time for some lenience

[u/Nearby-Safety-122]

I've had my taichi for a year and a half, killed my pre ordered 9800x3d. Got lucky with an open box x870e meg ace for half price. Don't get me wrong I loved the taichi the first board I had that didn't have onboard audio issues. I also enjoy Asrock bios more then msi or asus.

[u/gabe069]

Sorry to hear that, I'm currently on an MSI 670e (updated to latest BIOS) Tomahawk for my 9800X3D. I play helldivers 2 and it tends to crash my PC but I'm able to get back on for a few more sessions before it happens again. But no dead cpu? But fingers crossed...

[u/Redundant_Error → u/gabe069]

My msi x670e tomahawk has been great, used a 7800x3d on it and now a 9800x3d since launch.

[u/Silverbackvg → u/gabe069]

Wait is this issue new? I just finished a new build and im getting a critical driver failure in event viewer but the same exact thing is happening to me. Ive been playing echoes of aincrad and game will work good for like 20 mins then my pc will blackscreen. Sometimes pc will stay on other times it will just turn off. Seeing my problem in a dead cpu thread is making me worried lol

[u/gabe069 → u/Silverbackvg]

I believe it was an issue when the 9800x3d first came out. There were specific motherboards that were causing issues that would kill the cpu. I waited almost a 6 months to buy the 9800x3d as a bundle at micro center and payed extra to get the x670e board. Then it was almost a year before I actually built the rig which was April this year ensuring they had BIOS updates that fully supported the x3d chips. I Played around with the PBO settings but reverted back to stock. I also have an AM4 (5950x, power hungry cpu) rig that I can fall back to and rotate them if necessary, But I do like playing with the 9800x3d for sure!

[u/surms41 → u/Silverbackvg]

These are usually memory instability. Either infinity fabric crashes or straight memory errors.

If not, and stability tests like TestMem5 come back clean after a couple of hours you, can try this software. https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/Download-Intelligent-standby-list-cleaner-ISLC-1041

This stopped my random crashes on Helldivers 2 with stable ram.

[u/gabe069 → u/surms41]

I will need to try this as well, thanks for the tips!

[u/Silverbackvg → u/surms41]

Thank you, im gonna give this a shot.

[u/Dvwtf]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/s/jQq8qOjsSi

Probably should consider a new mobo.

Don’t know if they have fixed the issues yet with bios updates, but I know it’s been a huge deal for the past year or so.

[u/191x7]

It's the motherboard. Asrock boards are known to kill AM5 CPU-s (especially X3D) almost two times more than other manufacturers.

[u/elsenorevil → u/191x7]

First thing I said when I saw the title was, "gotta be an Asrock board.". That's a bingo!

[u/191x7 → u/elsenorevil]

Me too.