A very unlucky Redditor recently made a heartbreaking post of their AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and accompanying motherboard having died from a literal burnout. The punchline to this story? Both the CPU and motherboard were running perfectly fine for the first two weeks prior and they were just binging some TV series.
As per Redditor t0pli’s post, they had just assembled their brand new PC 20 days prior to the incident. The system comprised a 9800X3D and an ASRock Nove X870E motherboard. They make it clear that, except for the memory overclocking via AMD EXPO, the CPU ran at its default base and boost clock.
“While watching some series today my PC just turned off. Didn’t take me long to find the culprit. This is a 9800x3d and a Nova x870e. All bought and assembled within the last month. It’s been running smooth, no high temps registered at any point. I keep HWMonitor open usually and especially with new builds.”
One thing that t0pli made clear was that given the system ran perfectly fine for the first 20 days, they attribute the unfortunate event to it just being pure bad luck, and didn’t seem like they were blaming AMD entirely for it.
For what it’s worth, it’s been blasting with no issues for 20 days! Nah, I would be concerned too, but let’s be real about it; there’s likely a handful of people like me and a shitton of people that don’t post their perfectly stable running systems. To put it differently, I believe I’ve been unlucky. Actually, I hope so because that means I’m not at fault and hopefully will get all this recovered.
This isn’t the first time reports of an AMD 3D V-Cache committing seppuku have emerged. Back in early 2023, reports of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D decidedly burning themselves out and taking their respective motherboards with them began cropping up.
(Source: Reddit)
