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 ...
Amazon's Top-Selling CPUs: AMD Ryzen Dominates Intel But There Are Caveats
Therein lies an important caveat. As you dive further down the list of Amazon's best-selling CPUs, Intel is more widely ...
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 ...
Some Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are dying unexpectedly, mostly on Asrock motherboards – is user error to blame?
Reddit user natty_overlord compiled a list of all 108 Reddit posts involving a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that died. The chips passed ...
AMD blames failing Ryzen 9000 chips on memory issues
After over 100 reports of damaged CPUs, AMD and ASRock blame memory timing and claim it's been fixed in BIOS. Dead CPUs say ...
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China’s chip champ Loongson teases trio of new processors for lappies, factories, maybe servers too
Chinese chip designer Loongson, whose products have been promoted by China’s government, has teased two new designs that will ...
AMD reportedly plots late 2025 launch for desktop version of the nifty little Strix Point APU we like so much in laptops and handhelds
This would make for a super little desktop mini PC.
AMD's powerful Ryzen AI Max processors are on their way to desktop PCs - and a side effect could kill off discrete GPUs for gaming
Thanks to AMD's Ryzen AI Max APUs, we could be on the verge of seeing discrete GPUs gradually fade away, especially for ...
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips are tapping out too soon
AMD just announced over a dozen new laptop CPUs, which will appear in over 150 new laptops being announced at CES 2025 and later this year, including a new 3D V-Cache chip for gaming laptops and some ...
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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Overclocking: Delidded Clocks to almost 6 Ghz
A Technical Overview The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, launched in March 2025, is a high-performance CPU based on the Zen 5 ...
Microsoft finally adds missing Copilot+ AI tools to Intel and AMD PCs
Microsoft is finally bringing the Captions, Cocreator, Restyle Image and Image Creator AI tools to Copilot+ machines powered ...