Another AMD 9950X3D CPU Died, Putting More Pressure on ASRock to Come Up With a Fix

Another AMD Ryzen 9950X3D has died inside an ASRock motherboard. This marks the second reported instance of that CPU failing in such a way, but it joins over 100 recorded instances of 9800X3D CPUs failing to work after hours, days, or weeks of operation. Not all of them were in ASRock boards, but enough of them were to raise suspicions that there's something with this brand of motherboards that's causing problems with X3D CPUs.

Even if that proves not to be the case, ASRock's reputation is already taking a hit, and previous customers may not return.

For the past few months, a curious number of AMD's Ryzen 9000 CPUs with 3D V-Cache have been failing to boot. Sometimes, the CPU has even exhibited burn marks on the underside and in the CPU socket. But in each case, the processor appears completely dead and doesn't boot ...