We Exploded the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D & Melted the Motherboard (www.youtube.com)
from tedu to boom on 19 Aug 2023 20:47
https://azorius.net/g/boom/p/7cDBT76b8fj3v34469-We-Exploded-the-AMD-Ryzen-7-7800X3D--Melted-the-

This video benchmarks and tests various points of failure for the AMD X3D CPUs in particular, but also just generally AM5 / Ryzen 7000 (Zen 4) CPU failures. The most eye-catching failure mode is catastrophic: Users have posted photos of exploded CPUs with blown-out motherboard sockets and melted plastic. We bought those parts from the users to perform a failure analysis, then set forth testing our own AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs to see if we could make them explode. Spoiler alert: It worked. We were able to melt new AMD X3D CPUs in the socket of an ASUS X670E Crosshair Hero motherboard, but we also found severe BIOS bugs in Gigabyte's BIOS. SOC voltage isn't the only concern, here. It's also poor OCP implementation on at least the ASUS board we used, plus a combination of the erosion of thermal and over-current protections. As stated in the video, no test of this type is fully conclusive: These are complex issues with functionally infinite variables between users (and possible error), manufacturers, BIOS versions, and AMD itself. As such, we can only speak to our findings in some instances -- but we have some that do point to specific issues.

And part 2: The Truth About AMD's CPU Failures: X-Ray, Electron Microscope, & Ryzen Burns.

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