Wednesday, April 26th 2023
AMD Releases First Statement on Ryzen 7000X3D Series Burn-out Issues
AMD late Tuesday released its first media statement on the controversy surrounding Ryzen 7000X3D series processors burning-out as a result of voltage-assisted overclocking. We've covered this in detail, in our older article. The AMD statement reads that the company is aware of the issue, is investigating it, and in the meantime, is getting motherboard- and ODM vendors to ensure that their device firmware/BIOS operate Ryzen 7000X3D processors within the correct voltage tolerances. The statement also called for affected users to reach out to AMD Support.
The AMD statement follows several of its motherboard partners pushing out UEFI firmware (BIOS) updates, and some even removing older versions of BIOS from their Support websites. The new firmware enforces strict limits on CPU core voltages, and prevents voltage-assisted overclocking. Some companies, such as MSI, even introduced new automated overclocking modes that enhance PBO-based performance tuning (improved boost frequency residency), without crossing the voltage limits set by AMD.Many Thanks to DeathtoGnomes for the tip.
Source:
Anandtech
AMD Statement"We are aware of a limited number of reports online claiming that excess voltage while overclocking may have damaged the motherboard socket and pin pads. We are actively investigating the situation and are working with our ODM partners to ensure voltages applied to Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs via motherboard BIOS settings are within product specifications. Anyone whose CPU may have been impacted by this issue should contact AMD customer support."
52 Comments on AMD Releases First Statement on Ryzen 7000X3D Series Burn-out Issues
And actually not even thinking of what could happen, because yeah 1.45v should be safe right? Soc voltage of beyond 1.3V was never considered safe. 1.2V is still in my opinion far beyond what is normal.
This is a misconfiguration coming from EXPO - a setting that dials the SOC voltage beyond 1.4V which is completely unneeded, and yet fries the CPU + socket with it. The bios releases as of now cap that SOC voltage limit back to 1.3V max.
As they have to acknowledge the issue without panicking the shareholders.
Now every board manufacturer has taken their OC bios's offline with new ones that don't support OC. WTF hey.
And i would personally much rather have a safe chip, than a few % more performance.
auto motherboard settings have always been notorious overvolters for zen— even at stock settings. But those chips can generally handle high voltages - to have enough voltage / heat to warp silicon like that with modern Ovp and thermal protection there has to be something else going on - that hotspot had to be at least 150-200C, there is way more to this that we are about to find out.
As soon as you start yoking subtimings motherboard is liable to start pumping voltages to the soc, so you would basically have to run 5200CL40 to be completely stock.
Put a ring OC and some extra MHZ to the 13900K and it actually beats.
If you have a link to articles from reputable sources citing evidence from repair shops then please provide as many are very interested in whats going on here including me. Otherwise none of us can just accept what you say.
Your scare-mongering will age like those jumping to conclusions about the 4000 series power adapters, poorly
Im responding to someone who said that they won't need to overclock memory at all, and Im pointing out that that lowers performance -- go fight the good fight somewhere else, im not attacking AMD.