Soldato
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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.