Another one, these are saying applying Expo profiles are causing the voltages to spike on the CPU and causing the burn out: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/tec...p&cvid=6263b8ef6fcf439ab223bfd6a2587ef6&ei=13
There are a lot more threads popping up today that have noticed the high SOC voltages I noticed, as a result of enabling EXPO. It could be unrelated to the sudden surge in X3D chip failures and be a separate, less common issue, or it could be an exacerbator of another underlying issue.
There is at least 1 CPU that burnt up in a similar fashion to the X3D chips, on an Asrock board, but this time the burnt/bulged area was right bang on a specific area of the IO chiplet responsible for various IP blocks powered from VDDCR_SOC.
Regardless if it's related or not, I think it's a good precaution to disable EXPO for the moment (or at least manually lower the SOC voltage).