“Mindfactory’s sales information in repeated articles over several years, and its Ryzen 7 5800X, 5600X, and 5900X RMA rates are 0.58 percent, 0.52 percent, and 0.33 percent, respectively.”
Based on some very rough estimates using mindfactory and amazon sales data, the 9800x3d is in line with or below 5000 series RMA rates.
If there was real cause for concern, the RMA rate should be much higher.
That sounds well below the acceptable % for doa parts, especially if ASRock is indeed nuking chips.
Damn, and I had been starting to think ASRock was a pretty solid motherboard maker at this point… Not a good look…
It might still be. The article does mention that the numbers might be caused by its popularity and that the issue isn’t exclusive to it.
True, but the issue to me is ASRock blaming the entire problem on debris in the socket.
https://www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?iD=5612
After cleaning and removing debris from the CPU socket
Fair point. It might be an emergency PR fail, but it does feel quite embarrassing to close the topic blaming the users.
Especially when these boards have likely been sealed by AsRock until just moments before having the CPU installed.
… 100 dead CPUs is news?
That’s about how many Cybertrucks arent dead (yet) overall … tho that isn’t a fair comparison to begin with.
Don’t get me wrong, if there is something to fix they should, and ofc RMA, but those feel normal numbers (the AMD thing I mean).
I think a bigger deal is that over 80% of them are dying on ASRock boards. Not a good look for ASRock.
Are over 80% of them going in to ASRock boards in the first place?
I too had a barely year old AMD CPU go pop in an ASRock motherboard about 15 years ago. Bought the same CPU again and stuck it in an ASUS board and it is still running today. I know they have a better reputation these days, but this is the kind of thing that just shouldn’t happen.
no offense but i would literally never use an asrock board unless i was 15 again scraping coins out of couch cushions
especially on high end silicon. don’t skimp that hard on a board.
Asrock is one of the best board makers for am5. They used to be a shit cheap brand but aren’t anymore.
I got an ASRock x370 board and it had fewer problems than other first gen Ryzen boards, was one of the first to support 5000 series CPUs, and it’s still working well in my NAS with no dead ports or anything.
They used to be one of the lowest quality boards, but they’ve earned my respect. My current motherboard (b550) is also ASRock and the only problem I had was the WiFi chip sucking on Linux (known issue, I replaced just the WiFi module and everything is golden). My wife has a Gigabyte board and it had some minor issues.
So yeah, ASRock is on my good list for now.
I’ve got 2 rigs with their B450M’s and they’ve been solid for years now :shrug:
I just replaced my X470 Taichi with a Z790 Sonic and both have been trouble free. The former has essentially been running 24/7 since 2018 hosting my media server.
When I bought my B650 Lightning, Wendell from Level1Techs recommendations over the years played a big part. I haven’t found a single thing to complain about.
Yes sir, it is indeed a known issue with these boards, however you are going to need to send yours in for us to test for the simple fact that you genuinely sound like the kind of person that would have crumbs in their socket.
I got one of these Ryzen 7 5800X CPUs and I was running it against a much more updated Intel CPU on blender rendering using the Luxcore engine which simulates light rays. The gaming AMD CPU kicked the Intel Xeon gold 5218 to the curve. Usually the thing is just sitting idle, but when I need the power it delivers.
