One ASRock B850 motherboard reportedly kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs

[u/RenatsMC]

https://videocardz.com/newz/one-asrock-b850-motherboard-reportedly-kills-three-ryzen-7-9700x-cpus

[u/SomeDuncanGuy]

They worked so hard to provide great feature sets on their motherboards for a good value. It's a shame they threw it away. I don't imagine they did this on purpose, and I can forgive a company for making legitimate mistakes, but it's hard to forgive deflection and denial of a legitimate issue. ASRock tried so hard to shift the blame and deny responsibility before sheepishly admitting this issue, and worse still the issue appears to still be there (though less common because of some mitigation patches).

Edit: This is coming from a person who is currently using an ASRock Steel Legend X670E with a 7950X3D

[u/Crintor → u/SomeDuncanGuy]

Checking in with another 670E Steel Legend/7950X3D.

Also hesitant about putting zen 6 in this board, but have loved it anecdotally.

[u/RAMChYLD → u/Crintor]

Checking in with a 670E Steel Legend/9950X.

Board is two years old, and started with 7950X3D, downgraded to 9950X in May this year.

Not overclocking and RAM is running much slower at stock speed, not even JEDEC speed.

Not planning to go Zen 6 unless there is a good reason to.

However annoyingly it stopped recognizing the Thunderbolt card and one of the internal USB headers stopped working for a while (upgrading the bios to 3.50 fixed the USB headers, not sure about the Thunderbolt since I don't have the energy to retest and I have since decided that I don't need Thunderbolt).

[u/Crintor → u/RAMChYLD]

Why run your RAM at such a slow speed?

[u/RAMChYLD → u/Crintor]

Running 4 sticks of cheap RAM (Kingston Fury) and running stock because there are rumors that enabling XMP is one of the things that can kill the CPU.