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The budget CPU is dead — and no one seems to miss it

There was a time when budget CPUs felt truly special. Getting most of the performance of a high-end CPU at a fraction of the price allowed countless PC builders to get started on their PC journey.
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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 tally of well over 100 reports of dead Ryzen 7 9800 X3Ds on Reddit, most of ...
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ASRock Blames Dead AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPUs on Socket Debris

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...
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After ASUS, an ASRock motherboard is now suspected of killing three Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs

TL;DR: An ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi motherboard reportedly caused three Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU failures within four months, with each CPU dying faster than the last despite BIOS updates. Similar cases ...