fritzens fritzKnown for his IR photos of processors, he recently shared an image comparing the Ryzen 5 7600 and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. This famous photographer has explained the unfortunate incident regarding the Ryzen 5 7600. His I/O die on a hexa-core chip unexpectedly cracked during some tests before taking thermal images of the processor. However, it’s important to note that Fritz’ experience has not shown him to have problems with Ryzen 7000 processors.
Fritz ignored the Ryzen 5 7600 and ran it on Thermal Grizzly’s Ryzen 7000 direct die frame without a heatsink. He pointed out that the temperature of the I/O die (IOD) is around 80 degrees Celsius, while the temperature of the single core complex die (CCD) has dropped to 95 degrees Celsius. He used thermal imaging to capture the bounce of the core. Ryzen 5 7600 he was running Cinebench single core tests which produced image artifacts and finally he crashed the system after 60 seconds.
An IR photographer put the Ryzen 5 7600’s CPU cooler back on about 2-3 seconds after the system crashed, but it was too late. The IOD he had broken into 5 small pieces.fritz shared his configuration On his Ryzen 5 7600 all voltage settings matched. Thus, the chips were not burned out due to excessive SoC voltages on his, as was happening to his Ryzen owner who was using an AMD EXPO memory kit.
Direct die cooling has been mainstream for several generations of processors. Cooling the die directly avoids the need for an integrated heat spreader (IHS), improving temperatures and overclocking headroom. However, there are some logistical risks involved, such as excessive load pressure that can easily crack the delicate chiplets inside Ryzen 7000 processors. However, in Fritz’s case, that wasn’t the culprit, as there was no pressure on top of the Ryzen 5 7600 chip. The Ryzen 5 7600 didn’t hold up to the experiment, but the Asus Prime X670-P motherboard with the latest firmware worked. The socket was fine and the back of the processor showed no signs of physical damage.
Accidents like this are one of the hazards of Fritz’s work. This Berlin-based photographer has been pleasing us over the years with high-quality die shots of Intel and AMD processors and everything in between. So it’s a shame that the Ryzen 5 7600 met its untimely death. But don’t worry, you’ll get a lot of die shots out of your chips, so they won’t go to waste.
