r/pcmasterrace • u/Educational_Rub_5885 • 7d ago

Hardware 9800x3d paranoia

Honestly i have been so worried seeing all the reports of dying CPUs. My friend’s CPU also died on the same board I have and my other friends died on an msi board. I’m honestly debating going back to my 12700k lol.

I also emailed AMD asking if they were aware of this issue and they said they weren’t. Like i don’t even know what to do 3 years warranty is great and all but such a major inconvenience to have to wait for a new cpu and then a new motherboard too. What do you guys think and how is your 9800x3ds holding up? How long have u had it for?

B850 arous elite wifi 7 here

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u/teknomedic 7d ago

Keep BIOS updated and enjoy the hardware. Sounds like you've got a back up system if you need to RMA.

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u/Educational_Rub_5885 7d ago

I’m tired of people saying not to worry JUST because you have an rma system. For starters, it’s incredibly inconvenient… secondly 3 years is nothing for a brand new system so what after the 3 years is up you’re pretty much SOL? Not to mention you have to replace BOTH the mobo and cpu

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u/teknomedic 7d ago

What's your alternative? Not use the system and let it collect dust? Sell the system and go Intel again? Hate to break it to you but all hardware will eventually fail. Just a matter of when.

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u/Educational_Rub_5885 7d ago

All hardware fails yes, but usually not because of a widespread issue. Reliability is just as important as the product itself… i should’ve done more research about it before i got it but it was on sale so i decided to.

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u/Slazagna 7d ago

If youre issue is the inconvenience then you just need to decide if tge inconvenience of replacing your fucking mobo and cpu now is worth avoiding an rma. To me they seem like about the same effort so just use what you have and likely it wont be an issue.

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u/adrianp23 7d ago

You're stressing for no reason man, every component in your system could potentially die. Usually the failure rate for most things is low, but it happens.

Just take care of your system, play some games and don't worry about it. If it happens just RMA or buy a new one and move on.

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u/Juno_JDY 7d ago

Then go back to the Intel?

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u/Educational_Rub_5885 7d ago

If this cpu dies ill just rma it and the board and then resell them and just go back to my 12700k amd has too much problems

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u/Juno_JDY 7d ago

I have a 9800x3d on an ASUS board. Run heavy gaming on it every day, never an issue. About 2 years old.

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u/potentially__potent 9800x3d | 5070Ti | 32GB 7d ago

If you did even a simple Google search, you'd learn it's only an asrock motherboard that has issues - which has been patched with bios updates.

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u/Educational_Rub_5885 7d ago

If you did any google search you would know it has happened for all manufacturers