Despite all of ASRock’s efforts to try to stem the tide of Ryzen X3D burnouts, CPUs continue to die. Indeed, we are once again faced with a motherboard that has scored a double kill! ShendonZ’s X870E Pro RS on Reddit has killed a second Ryzen 7 9800X3D. But this isn’t the first time a card from this brand has killed two CPUs. No, we’ve already covered a similar case on a B850i Lightning! In any case, it’s a real bummer.
The X870E Pro RS makes a double kill, killing two Ryzen 7 9800X3Ds!
Basically, we know how it goes: a user decides to treat themselves and buys a setup with the most powerful gaming CPU on the market, installs it on an ASRock motherboard, and boom! The CPU burns out. Luckily, they submit an RMA request to the manufacturer, which is accepted, and they receive a new processor. Unfortunately, his motherboard does it again and kills his second CPU two and a half months after receiving it… Ouch! Except this time, the return request is likely to be more complicated, as the guy in question has moved to another continent (he left Spain for Brazil).
In the meantime, we learn that he wasn’t using the latest BIOS released by the brand, version 3.40. Instead, he stuck with version 3.25, which the brand seemed to tell him was safe. Just goes to show that advice isn’t always worth paying for.
In any case, the reason why these motherboards kill Ryzen 9000X3Ds like this remains a mystery. Even Gamers Nexus, after 200 hours of investigation, has been unable to find the source of the problem. It’s clearly a very difficult cause to identify, one that must require very specific conditions to kill the CPU.