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Not sure if it’s caused any deaths yet 
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9800X3D Failures/Deaths in the UK?
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That would depend on what your trying to do with your 9800X3D lolNot sure if it’s caused any deaths yet
It never was. The 7000 series never had an issue, unless you fitted the CPU upside down/sideways of course.
To be fair I think there was an issue with too much voltage on some BIOS versions, I think Asus were somewhat at fault. I suspect that this could just be normal failure rates although I will see how it pans out over the next few months. Will keep on doing my little prayers before turning on my machine each day.
Sample of size of just three, but day one 7800X3Ds and offending Asus boards all still on release BIOS’s to this day, all running fine.
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Reddit has many cases of dead 7800X3D chips in the early days, GN tested various BIOS revisions to show how deadly they could be, they alone killed two of their chips in testing. Pretty sure there was an issue here but it was addressed. So far with the 9800X3D there does appear to be a high proportion of them dying on ASRock boards but also other manufacturers are not immune. Many of the chips work for months and then just won't boot, this cannot be installation failure. I bought my gear knowing all this as I feel it will get fixed or its a small number with manufacturing defects but if you read the Mega thread on reddit it's clear this is not user incompetence.
The SoC voltage issue was killing a lot of chips albeit more a motherboard issue, funny enough the 7800X3D has sold so well despite a relatively high early failure rate due to the SoC voltage issue they now have an above average reliability rate.
As I said I have the worst of the worst x3 and zero issues with 2 years use and zero mitigation.
Ah apologies, I didn't realise you had three systems. I thought you were implying that only 3 7800x3ds died overall
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Thing is - it never used to be this way. I’ve been building PC’s for 25 years and it’s a pretty recent phenomena to almost expect issues. This is of course my own opinion - obviously failures have always happened but I haven’t had any major issues before getting back into PC’s in 2023.
Just got back to this thread, as I am still waiting on the 5080... which is crazy as the CPU is now £50 cheaper. If it isn't a CPU issue, maybe waiting is better?
I am still rocking my 5830k running @4.2GHZ with a Dual Noctua, never gone bast 55 degrees. Same Thermaltake Armor case from 10 years ago, same 1100W PSU, 64GB Quad RAM, RTX 2080... everything just works, never had any issues.
I have another wok PC and a few laptops with better CPU and GPUs but can't play on a laptop no matter what.
The 9800X3D was going to be my new upgrade and so was the GPU, from what I see, should have got the 7800X3D and the 9800XFX when they were cheap last year, as the difference is a lot more money for low performance gain and lots of issues.
I am still rocking my 5830k running @4.2GHZ with a Dual Noctua, never gone bast 55 degrees. Same Thermaltake Armor case from 10 years ago, same 1100W PSU, 64GB Quad RAM, RTX 2080... everything just works, never had any issues.
I have another wok PC and a few laptops with better CPU and GPUs but can't play on a laptop no matter what.
The 9800X3D was going to be my new upgrade and so was the GPU, from what I see, should have got the 7800X3D and the 9800XFX when they were cheap last year, as the difference is a lot more money for low performance gain and lots of issues.
The 7800X3D was/is one of most under priced/appreciate CPUs ever. The performance on offer for its power use cost is sublime.
It still amazes me today how AMD pulled this off.
Been running my 9800x3d and Asrock Nova (and 9070XT) for a month and a half now with no issues, heavy board, subtle graphics and great Nvme expandability. Great to have the ability to switch drives out of my old pc without it impacting the 16x PCIE card.
I updated the bios to 3.20, turned on Expo and PBO etc and its been faultless.
Hope you get your 5080 soon
I updated the bios to 3.20, turned on Expo and PBO etc and its been faultless.
Hope you get your 5080 soon
For what its worth, I have been running mine now on a nova since Feb 28th, latest BIOS 3.30, EXPO 6000 and a couple of voltage reductions including VSOC at 1.18. I have turned off any sleep stuff as I always do on windows PC but other than that its been plain sailing so far. Hopefully not the kiss of deathGood to know mate. Due to kids, work, life, all my parts are still on the table
I've got a x870e tachi lite with a 9800x3d. Started with 3.15, 3.16, 3.25 now 3.3. I have only enabled expo didn't touch PBO. Previously I lowered VSOC to 1.1v but after one unexpected crash in helldivers 2 I set it to default. I've not had the cpu fail on me. Agree with G J that reddit has daily threads of dead cpus on Asrock boards. Last one I read and the guy was on bios 3.2 and not updated to the safer bios (3.25 or 3.3).
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Despite some claims of this still being a problem on Asrock motherboards, the last time I seen a thread regarding failure was by someone who never updated bios. Months back.
Hopefully the issue is gone.
My Nova bios was updated to 3.30 before I built the pc, only gets light use with Linux currently as I never decided on a GPU and an wondering about the possible 5070/5080 24gb Supers.
Hopefully the issue is gone.
My Nova bios was updated to 3.30 before I built the pc, only gets light use with Linux currently as I never decided on a GPU and an wondering about the possible 5070/5080 24gb Supers.
Retail (including OEM) return rates on the 9800X3D are still very very low, though there seems a small number faulty from the factory (these usually die within a short time from first use) - I suspect isolated to one batch or a small number of batches around the same time frame as well as the Asrock related failures. Still seeing the occasional ASRock related failure but no idea whether there is any correlation with BIOS version.
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If ASRock's story is still the same that it was overly aggressive PBO, maybe those early samples you mentioned were particularly sensitive to whatever they had done.