After more and more reports about burnt AMD CPUs and damaged mainboards have appeared in the past few days, both AMD and the board manufacturers are now reacting.
There has been a lot of bad news for buyers of the new AMD Ryzen CPUs in the last few days, especially with regard to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 7 7800X3D models, which are popular with gamers and whose additional V-cache brings out even better performance in games.
After numerous reports of burned CPUs and damaged boards, it seems that the other models in the Ryzen 7000 series could also be affected. After a feverish search, the voltage values found were apparently too high, which can lead to problems, especially in the V-cache, which board manufacturers often set high. But certain configurations of AMD processors, mainboards and BIOS versions are also suspect.
AMD has already responded with a statement: “We are aware of a limited number of reports online claiming that excessive voltage during overclocking may have damaged the motherboard socket and pin pads. We are investigating The situation is active and we are working with our ODM partners to ensure that the voltages applied to Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs via the motherboard BIOS settings are within product specifications Anyone whose CPU may be affected by this issue should contact AMD Customer Support to contact.”
And the mainboard manufacturers have also perked up, published various bios updates that limit the SoC voltage to a maximum of 1.3V, and pulled some older bios versions out of circulation. If you have one of the new AMD CPUs, especially one of the X3D models in your computer, you should quickly check the support page of your board manufacturer to see whether there is a bios update there and import the same – just to be on the safe side go.
