u\/RealisticLoad3327<\/a>, says they run an internet cafe and have lost 15 Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs out of 150 bought earlier this year, a 10 per cent failure rate.<\/p>\nThe failure chatter is now giving Intel’s 13th and 14th-gen high-end mess a run for its money, which is not the sort of competition AMD should want.<\/p>\n
Most reports previously pointed the finger at ASRock motherboards, but this batch is nastier because every death happened on Asus kit.<\/p>\n
The cafe owner says the systems use an Asus B650M-AYW WiFi motherboard, paired with 850W 80+ Gold power supplies from Huntkey, which is not exactly a confidence booster.<\/p>\n
The PSU gets called \u201cpretty bad\u201d in the report, so it sits right there in the suspect lineup, even if past cases suggest it is not always the smoking gun.<\/p>\n
Of the 150 units deployed from March, the owner says failures occur at random intervals, usually every 1-2 weeks, working out to roughly 1.6 dead CPUs a month.<\/p>\n
The cafe owner says they have never had such a \u201cterrible\u201d experience before, and it is hard to argue when you are basically running a chip graveyard.<\/p>\n
They say they did not enable PBO or any overclocking, so this is not the usual tale of someone cranking sliders then acting surprised.<\/p>\n
On firmware, the systems are reportedly on BIOS 3283 (98.81.0) from September, which is new-ish but not the latest, and it was meant to \u201cimprove\u201d system stability.<\/p>\n
There is no clarity on how many chips died before or after that update, but running an older BIOS does not magically explain why processors dropped dead.<\/p>\n
The write-up even suggests that it could be the CPU drawing more voltage than it should, which is a grim prospect for a part sold as premium.<\/p>\n
AMD and its board partners still have not pinned down a cause, and nearly a year in, the 9800X3D death watch is still getting fresh entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"15 dead chips out of 150, and the body count keeps climbing A Redditor, u\/RealisticLoad3327, says they run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13267,205919,43100,205920,64,63,79645,205918,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-382946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-amd","9":"tag-asrock","10":"tag-asus","11":"tag-asus-b650mayw-wifi","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-ryzen-7","15":"tag-ryzen-7-9800x3d","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}