News Third Ryzen 7 9800X3D burnout case appears, kills the CPU, and damages the motherboard socket

[Admin]

Three weeks after building, a Redditor's Ryzen 7 9800X3D has seemingly burned out.

Third Ryzen 7 9800X3D burnout case appears, kills the CPU, and damages the motherboard socket : Read more

 

[edzieba]

It is possible that the electric error was severe enough to cause discoloration and material warping without any debris.

Wow, chatGPT really mangled 'arc fault'.

 

[usertests]

User Terror

 

[Gururu]

I bet you that guy had a 4090 or 5090 in his rig too.

 

[LaminarFlow]

As something that loosely follow the gist of the story, this past weekend I wanted to clean off and re-apply thermal grease on my 5800X. It turned out my alcohol wipe was too damped and some liquid (70% IPA) sipped into the CPU socket.

I didn't initially notice it, tried to power on, and nothing happened. Realized what I could have done, I panicked a little. Disconnected power and took everything off. Sure enough, the CPU socket was wet. Despite being an atheist, I prayed to all kind of deities I could think of for the next 5 minutes while letting things dry.

Fortunately, after that everything powered on without any further incidents.

 

[Dr3ams]

Maybe the user doesn't know how to properly handle or install a CPU.

 

[atomicWAR]

A few bad chips are pretty much expected in any batch of CPUs. Failure rates are just part of the game. As long as the numbers remain low I don't see an issue. If the numbers jump over time though AMD may have a design/production issue that was missed in testing. All we can do is play the wait and see game at this point. But considering the teething issues with the 7000 series CPUs, I'll be keeping an eye on how this plays out in the near to long term. We have two 7950X3Ds running with 64GB of DDR5 6000mhz CL 30 running Expo on x670 Taichi boards with no issues but we waited until AMD and it's board partners had everything under control so we didn't melt a chip. As such I make sure I keep up to date on everything AM5 as I do intend to upgrade to Zen 6 after it launches, has time to mature and sale prices begin to bring its cost down. Side note...I am curious to find out if the leaked 12 core CCDs are actually a thing for Zen 6. Regardless I appreciate Tom's keeping us up to date on potential pitfalls in the tech world.

 

[bit_user]

The damage pattern looks to me like a piece of debris could've been involved. Or, maybe some of the springs got slightly mashed when something bumped into the empty socket, and weren't making proper contact.

The main question such explanations pose is how it took so long to fail, and why it failed when he was allegedly just watching a video.

 

[bit_user]

Was the system running stock settings, or was there any undervolting or tweaking involved?

User claims no overclocking or undervolting, but EXPO was enabled. Claims he wasn't stressing the CPU at the time, either.

 

[TerryLaze]

The damage pattern looks to me like a piece of debris could've been involved.

Might not be the same issue but sure looks a lot alike.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

According to the Reddit thread he could have possibly been using a beta BIOS, which could have caused the issue.

Also looking at the image he posted on Reddit in its full zoom I'm not seeing any "debris". It's slightly fuzzy but the CPU pads appear to be scorched or missing, while the pins in the socket appear to be bent sideways or melted, as you would expect if it were an electrical short, and combined with JPEG compression, camera flash, and phone camera processing it appears to be slightly different colors, and could easily be the CPU pads having been fused to the socket pins, that would be the shape of the pads.

My money would be on a beta BIOS overvolt, I'm not so sure a mis-manufactured socket pin causing an electric arc would have lasted weeks, as I can't see pins slowly bending over time towards each other until they touched.