High performance microprocessors tend to get hot and can literally burn out if overclocked without proper cooling or throttling. There is nothing surprising about an old PC with an old CPU running hot due to dust or a worn out fan. But when a new CPU fails on a shiny new motherboard, it’s amazing. This is what happened to his one of the best CPUs, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. reddit user. And according to other users, he’s not alone.
“The CPU pad is physically bulging,” writes Speedrookie, owner of the burnt-out processor. “I think the contacts were too hot and the pads just swelled. It didn’t explode any of the CPU’s internal components.”
It seems that this is by no means an isolated case, at least when it comes to AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D series processors. reddit Users who had the same experience with Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs on Asus and MSI motherboards.
Renowned overclocker der8auer also had issues with their AMD Ryzen 7000X3D chips burning out during early overclocking tests a few weeks ago.as you can see in his videohe said:
There are about a million reasons why modern processors burn out. A defective socket or motherboard is likely to be the culprit, and inadequate cooling can have similar consequences. His BIOS version, which tends to overclock the CPU automatically, could be yet another reason for processor failure. In fact, as HXL noticed, (@9550 Pro), Asus has withdrawn the old BIOS on many of their AMD X670-based motherboards, but the old BIOS is still available for some of them.
“There is a Russian YouTube channel with a team mainly responsible for repairing GPUs” I have written Normir87, another Reddit user. “They’re already repairing two of his motherboards, an Asus and a Ryzen 7000X3D AM5 CPU, and they burned in exactly the same spot. Sockets and CPUs are dead. They’re going to get more mobos and CPUs coming in. I said I would come.”
We don’t have enough evidence at this point to draw any conclusions, but the fact that we’re dealing with the Ryzen 7000X3D series processors with 3D V-Cache, rather than the usual Ryzen 7000 series CPUs that bloat and die in the same place. Thinking about it, the CCD chiplet with the 3D V-Cache SRAM tile on top could be overheating. Probably this happens when the motherboard clocks the CPU too high and the chiplet doesn’t get enough cooling. increase.
AMD’s X3D chips burst clocks just like regular Ryzen, but AMD doesn’t provide unlocked multipliers for these processors to enable manual overclocking. Perhaps the reason for the lock is to prevent this situation, and overly aggressive automatic overclocking by the motherboard can cause the same malfunction.
Again, given the lack of information to say the least, no conclusions can be drawn at this time. Contact your AMD contact and motherboard vendor to see if they are aware of the issue. For now, if you have a Ryzen 7000X3D processor from AMD, we recommend keeping a close watch on your CPU temperature, proper cooling, and an up-to-date BIOS.
