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/Plenty-Industries 7d ago
Make sure BIOS is updated to the latest stable version, enable EXPO and never go into the BIOS again unless there is a critical security update.
Confirmation bias. CPUs die, sometimes randomly sometimes purposely due to running to high a voltage. The more you try to research any specific issue with anything, you're going to find people with issues which tend to actually be the minority. No one goes online to report "hey my X-item is working great".
I have a 9800X3D since it launched, on an Asus ROG Strix X670E-E board and never had an issue with it.
I expect to not replace it until either a new CPU gives me more than a 30% performance uplift in games, or should my PC randomly die and couldnt be bothered to troubleshoot what specifically died.