Ryzen 7000X3D May Be Limited to 1.35V After Der8auer’s CPU Catastrophe

famous overclocker der8auer Visited Asus headquarters this week And I killed my shiny new AMD Ryzen 7000X3D with amazing ease. The 3D V-Cache-enhanced Ryzen 9 7950X3D didn’t last long in our overclocking tests after the lashings of tweaked voltages and liquid nitrogen cooling were applied. will literally save others. Because Asus/AMD will “probably” implement a 1.35V cap on his X3D processors in an upcoming motherboard BIOS update.

Der8auer currently records trips to Taiwan in the following ways: YoutubeAfter a pint of local bubble tea, he headed over to Asus HQ for some fun testing and overclocking his computer. The TechTuber explained that it’s been about seven years since he last visited the tech treasure island, mostly due to his Covid-19 pandemic and travel restrictions.

After several days of testing at Intel Sapphire Rapids, Der8auer was offered the chance to test the latest AMD Ryzen 7000X3D processors in Asus’ well-equipped labs. The expert overclocker feels there may be “huge risks” in making such an attempt due to AMD’s warnings and the lockdown on his X3D part from the previous generation (the AMD Ryzen 5000X3D processor). I was. However, with the latest generation, AMD has loosened things up a bit, allowing more fine-tuning for those who like to dabble.

With a Ryzen 9 7950X3D and an Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme, der8auer started investigating performance and power. At the beginning of this section of the video, the overclocker said that the CPU typically ran at 1V, but Crosshair motherboards have made it a modest but worthwhile first step in LN2-fueled overclocking by turning the voltage he was able to pull up to 1.35V. The <90°C temperatures observed with liquid nitrogen cooling were comfortably close to those expected at stock voltage with the AiO liquid cooler.

Encouraged by the success of the system overvoltage and stability, der8auer decided to take the next step of 1.55V. He explained that this sort of voltage is a significant increase from stock but the latest he without 3D V-Cache is a typical next step for exploring the capabilities of an Intel CPU or AMD CPU I explained that it would be

Upon reboot, the open bench test system stopped working and the motherboard displayed the ominous 00 error code shortly after the BIOS screen flew by. Usual error recovery measures did not bring the system back, and further investigation revealed that the CPU was not fully functional. Der8auer’s video narration claims that the CPU’s demise was totally unexpected, notably that he only went through the BIOS screen and was not subjected to any testing or computational load using the new voltages.

The YouTuber didn’t want to draw conclusions about safe voltages for the Ryzen 7000X3D series based on one sample, but reported to Asus that they would probably limit the maximum manually selectable voltage for X3D chips to 1.35V. bottom. He speculated that the voltage being highly configurable, with options up to 2.5V available, was probably an oversight by his AMD motherboard partners and should be fixed.