5900x Random Restarts - All Default Settings

[ikra]

Glad you got it sorted. I wonder how widespread this issue is, what's the RMA % etc.

Also, wonder if the reliability will improve once AMD swaps to a LGA type socket.

Yep, I am really curious what that % is. Anecdotal evidence so far shows that it looks very high... but then the internet is pretty good at becoming a magnet when something goes wrong. But for sure there's a manufacturing issue somewhere in that long fabrication pipeline because it's pretty damn consistent in terms of symptoms.

 

[Grim5]

I just want to update this thread in case someone with the same problem comes accross it.

I thought I managed to make the CPU stable with the above solutions but all I did was make it last longer before it randomly restarts from a few hours to a day or two.

So in the end I RMA'd it back to AMD (it went all the way to the Netherlands) and got a new one. Been running this new CPU since Christmas and all my problems disappeared. I tried default BIOS settings, previous settings, let it idle for a day with minimal background items running... rock solid stable. I'm also getting much better temperatures and better IF clocks. This is the first time I've ever had a dud CPU and AMD's RMA process was swift and really good. Kudos AMD.

Unrelated: My Beautiful idle temps on an SFX build: https://imgur.com/a/GmdXq6D

My 5950x probably needs an rma as well but I'm just too lazy at this point and my pc will be out of action for weeks. I'm just waiting for my next upgrade and then I'll replace the cpu, board, ram and gpu and then sell the 5950x so some random person and they can deal with it