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Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
To be more specific, at one recent count on Reddit, 98 9800X3Ds are reported to have expired in ASRock motherboards. But ...
AMD says the problem with Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips failing to boot is down to memory compatibility issues and not actually dead CPUs
Day 97 (or something like that), the saga of the imploding AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs continues. Yesterday, we reported on a ...
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AMD Ryzen CPU failures: what’s happened and what it means for you
Table of Contents What’s causing the issues? Response from manufacturers and AMD What can customers do? Tread with caution When AMD launched its Ryzen 9000X3D series back in November last year ...
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AMD 9800X3D chips under fire
More than 100 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips have reportedly gone belly-up, most of them when nestled in ASRock motherboards. According to data culled from Reddit, 98 of the fancy 3D V-Cache processors ...
AMD responds to Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU failures, blames memory compatibility issues
This week saw a Redditor compile a list of 108 Reddit posts involving a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that died, along with 12 other Ryzen ...
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Need a top-notch new gaming CPU? AMD's Ryzen 9800X3D is finally widely available at its MSRP
TL;DR: AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a truly excellent gaming CPU, is now widely available at its MSRP of $479 at major US retailers like Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy in the US. It's been a long wait ...
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AMD shares Ryzen 9950X3D Windows 11 performance vs 9800X3D, 7950X3D & Intel 285K0 0
At its CES 2025 event today, AMD unveiled its flagship X3D processor of this generation, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This succeeds the 7950X3D and has a similar core configuration. As such, the 9950X3D ...