ASRock motherboards have been killing AMD CPUs all year, and in particular, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs. The mystery has been unsolved for 9 months now (and remains unsolved), but ASRock and AMD are both investigating, as are we. In theory, they should find an answer before us — but for whatever reason, it’s been complete silence from both companies beyond some blame-gaming between them. In this video, we do our best to test for internet theories as to the root cause of ASRock’s murderboard failures that cause the destruction of X3D CPUs.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – ASRock Motherboards Still Killing AMD CPUs
03:45 – Setting Expectations
06:05 – TIMELINE Recap
07:42 – Defining EDC, TDC, PPT
09:19 – Test Methodology and Components
11:37 – Test: ASRock’s “Fix”
14:23 – Test: CPU PPT Comparison
14:34 – Test: Frequency Comparison
14:58 – Test: TDC, EDC, PPT Limit Changes
17:15 – Test: SOC Voltage Changes
18:33 – Test: BIOS 3.40 VSOC
21:20 – Test: SOC Current in 3.40
22:59 – Logic Analyzer Testing Methodology
26:41 – Methodology: Internal SVI3 TFN vs External Voltage
27:51 – Test: Entering S3 Sleep
29:02 – Test: Wake from S3 Sleep
30:18 – Test: Entering S4 Hibernate
31:08 – Test: S3 to S4
32:26 – Test: CPU Load Cycling
34:11 – ASRock Enterprise Failures
37:50 – ASRock’s RMA Failures
38:54 – User Data: Vendor Failure Distribution
40:02 – User Data: Failure by Chipset
40:17 – User Data: Failure by ASRock Board Model
41:21 – User Data: CPU Failure by Batch Number
42:20 – User Data: CPU Batch by Distribution
42:42 – User Data: Motherboard Serial Prefix Distribution
43:13 – User Data: Cooler Correlation with Failure
43:49 – Additional Information and VDDIO_MEM
46:40 – AMD Statement to Other Media
47:38 – Conclusion
Credit to : Gamers Nexus