Last week, a report surfaced claiming that current AM5 motherboards could burn out the latest Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. According to the report, some AM5 motherboards could accidentally raise the SOC voltage to high levels which could damage the latest AMD CPUs. And thankfully, AMD was able to replicate and resolve this issue.
As AMD stated:
“We have root caused the issue and have already distributed a new AGESA that puts measures in place on certain power rails on AM5 motherboards to prevent the CPU from operating beyond its specification limits, including a cap on SOC voltage at 1.3V. None of these changes affect the ability of our Ryzen 7000 Series processors to overclock memory using EXPO or XMP kits or boost performance using PBO technology.
We expect all of our ODM partners to release new BIOS for their AM5 boards over the next few days. We recommend all users to check their motherboard manufacturers website and update their BIOS to ensure their system has the most up to date software for their processor.”
For those wondering, the AM5 motherboards that were mainly causing these burnout issues were the ones from ASUS. Or at least that’s what’s been reported online.
ASUS and Gigabyte have already released new BIOSes for their motherboards. And although we never encountered any such issues, we went ahead and upgraded our Gigabyte Aorus Master X670E to its latest BIOS. As they say, better be safe than sorry. The latest BIOS is version F10c and you can download it from here.
We can also confirm that EXPO works perfectly fine on this latest BIOS version. Our G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 32GB 6000Mhz CL30 runs ideally (at least for now) with its EXPO profile. Moreover, we did not notice any performance decrease in the games we tested.
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I would demand a refund if it was me. Just because your PC still runs and you’re able to flash a new BIOS doesn’t mean the CPU’s data integrity and lifespan wasn’t affected. Some CPU burned up, but likely many more that still run have internal damage.
AMD expect to have it fixed by 2024, Q5.
“We have root caused the issue…”
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I would demand a refund if it was me. Just because your PC still runs and you’re able to flash a new BIOS doesn’t mean the CPU’s data integrity and lifespan wasn’t affected. These CPU have billions of transistors, you can’t easily tell if any were damaged.
Or a brand new sealed replacement CPU at the very least.
Burnout paradise amd edition
What really happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTngvvD5dI
This “issue” has been going on for a long time. Asus and other OEM’s solution to memory stability is “just throw more voltage at it”, because they scale the voltage linearly with the frequency of the RAM regardless of if you use XMP or not, and surprise surprise it degrades/kills chips.
I was bitten by this on X79. The designers of the Rampage boards recommended never going above 1.3v VCCSA for 24/7 use, and yet the mere act of raising the memory frequency would result in VCCSA hitting unsafe levels that I know for a fact caused my CPU’s IMC to degrade resulting in crashes months later requiring more tinkering with voltages just to regain stability. One of my friends had a similar issue and he had to replace his CPU because his was so badly degraded that it began crashing with 100% stock bios settings.
This is why you should never leave voltages on auto. Key them all in and then set XMP or whatever, otherwise you’re at the mercy of morons.
Nvidia user error cable issue: Media uproar, huge scandal, everyone trolling Nvidia
AMD literally setting your sh*t on fire: *crickets*
Why is AMD bias so enormous from user and journo side? I tell you why: Because it’s a cult