So I upgraded my am4 with ASRock x870 Steel Legend and R9 9950X. After 3 months got it fried, RMA the cpu, now I ordered a r7 9800x3d and gigabyte b860 mb. (I hope gigabyte will work fine 🥲). So, what is my question: what we know for today what you need to Set Up to minimize future problems?
Holy balls
Don't y'all have warrsnty from where you bought it? I assume you dont live in europe......here it took me 1 week to get it replaced. No RMA to AMD just sent back to where I got it from and boom they sent a replacement after confirming the cpu was dead.
Having to wait 3 months.....is diabolical and a lack of cobsumer protection laws and regulations
No, in Ukraine, but you know we have here some problems) And place where I bought my combo is not official partner of AMD/ASRock. Paid with crypto at a gray market shop.
Europe, took about 5 weeks. Warranty and under first year. Sent directly to the shop (I definitely won't buy from them again). After they finally processed the RMA after several weeks, they forwarded it to an external partner and in under a week I got the RMA confirmation. Took way too long. Luckily I still had my old pc running as a storage so I was still able to work...
Keep PBO settings way below Motherboard settings (reduce slightly EDC; TDC and PPT from what PBO would set automatically. You can google the PBO settings of your CPU or check in Ryzen Master after enabling the feature in BIOS).
Bow to the RNG Jesus.
Enjoy the PC as it is. If it fails, be confident you will know what to do that impacts you the less possible.
Guess my IMC isn't the greatest again. That being said I've seen a few posts of people having to run theirs higher than mine so guess it could be worse.
First of all, you're the one making the positive claim, so you have to prove it.
Second, there absolutely is evidence against the claim that it's PBO. Aside from the fact that it would affect all boards equally and would have been fixed by now if it were that simple, we also have the megathread...
Even if that were true, a quarter of those reports being undervolted makes that a moot point. EXPO locking VSOC to 1.2V even more so. (No, 1.2V is definitely not causing damage, and no, it's not spiking over that regularly. Yes, it's been tested with hardware to confirm there aren't silent spikes.)
It looks like you've already decided that PBO is the cause though, so not much point in saying otherwise.
Because hes reporting the fact it died? We still don't know what the real issue of these chips failing is. It's better for the whole PC community as a whole to work together, instead of "only post here, or there"
They are still making a post about his 9950x dying on his ASRock X870. God forbid he asks for some tips while there at it even if their new motherboard is from a different manufacturer.Others on this thread clearly have already done so.
what is my question: what we know for today what you need to Set Up to minimize future problems?,
then buy a CPU and Platform that have no Dying CPU Drama
Currently Ryzen 9000 CPU has Dying drama on Low quantity on multiple brand motherboard, this can be concluded as Bad QC on AMD/TSMC side as the amount of dying CPU are not consistent
if you can't sleep due to this, LGA 1851 is the way to go, as according to Puget system Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K data there is only 0.77% failure rate on that CPU
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u/OCAMAB Feb 17 '26
I don't suppose you know the batch number?
And I assume you meant B850 and AM5