It thankfully seems like everyone is pushing out fixes, but they may take a hot minute depending on who your motherboard maker is .
Tim_N
1810
My 7950x3d died on a MSI board, it isn’t ASUS specific. Coincidentally, for the replacement I went with an ASUS board and it has been really great so far.
ASUS has also been among the fastest with the bios updates fixing the problem (perhaps because they were most exposed).
Certainly fair to say AM5 has had its fair share of teething problems.
JMR
1811
Did AMD send you a new 7950x3d or were you able to exchange from the store/Amazon?
Tim_N
1812
The PC store I bought it from gave me the old “please mail it back to us and we’ll send it to AMD and monitor the RMA process which can take several weeks”, which is contrary to australian consumer law when the item died so soon after purchase (one week), so I took it to the store in person and luckily they tested it in front of me and replaced the cpu on the spot. Woohoo!
It wasn’t aesthetically blown but I smelled burning when the computer shut down so I figure it was the same overvovltage problem.
Motherboard is a different story. I accidentally bent some socket pins trying to troubleshoot the problem so had to just write it off. Dumb.
Soma
1813
So Tech Jesus’s view is that those X3D CPUs cooked itself when the motherboard should have shut it off completely before that happened. So mobo manufacturers were at fault but he also complained that AMD didn’t inform/enforce the thermal/power limit to CPU.
Now it just seems to me to be ALL mobo manufacturer’s fault because they didn’t RTFM from AMD. X3D’s thermal limit is lower than vanilla X but some mobo just stuck with the vanilla CPU’s thermal limit and called it a day. That is a mobo issue.
Edit: And then there is the 217 degree C cooking. The mobo should have shut it down LOOOONG before that.
Tim_N
1814
Weirdly when mine died it was at stock in light load and I had ryzen master open at the time. It definitely was not overheating unless the sensors weren’t reporting it.
Soma
1815
Tech Jesus also mentioned that the power limit supplied to CPU is over specs for X3D in their test, so there is that as well. It doesn’t need to cook but too much volt and/or amp above specs can kill it nonetheless.
I left the voltage monitor open all day and everything seems to stay well at safe numbers for my machine.
