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Overclocking is dead, and modern CPUs are the culprits

Once upon a time, not overclocking your CPU meant you were missing out on a major free performance boost. A smidge of manual tweaking and a bigger cooler would have yielded you a significantly faster ...
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CPU fail? Asus investigates issue with its motherboards and Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Several users on Reddit running the 9800X3D chip on an Asus motherboard reported that their desktops suddenly failed to boot up.
PC Gamer

Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards

Update, April 2, 2025: AMD has given us a statement regarding the reportedly dead Ryzen processors, and we are pursuing further clarification from AMD. The statement notes that after an investigation ...

ASUS Breaks Silence On Ryzen 7 9800X3D Failures And Launches Investigation

ASUS is the latest motherboard vendor to acknowledge that something is definitely causing Socket AM5 CPUs to fail prematurely ...
ExtremeTech

ASRock Blames Dead AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPUs on Socket Debris

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...
PC Gamer

AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs

But AMD's statement doesn't quite square with Reddit reports... When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asus starts an 'immediate ...