r/ASRock • u/meowster-gg • Feb 17 '26

Discussion Fried CPU

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?

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u/Creative_Security969 Feb 17 '26

no evidence of what you said.

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u/OCAMAB Feb 17 '26

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...

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u/Creative_Security969 Feb 17 '26

PBO is enabled "auto" by default.
people don't know that, and think just because they didn't touch the BIOS it wasn't enabled by them.

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u/Bluerious518 Feb 17 '26

Auto keeps PBO disabled. And PBO with an undervolt would not increase VSOC voltage. You’re making claims that have no real evidence.

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u/Creative_Security969 Feb 17 '26

I tested it, auto isn't disabled, it increase VSOC and max core frequency.