Exploding AMD CPUs | Investigating ASRock's Murderboards

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Sponsor: ID-Cooling Frozn A720 Black on Amazon https://geni.us/VDnou4Y 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. We are losing money on this content, but we're able to fund it thanks to the supporters of our AI GPU Smuggling Documentary on YouTube. Please consider buying a Blind Eye T-Shirt to help us further offset the cost on this piece: https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/blind-eye-t-shirt-black-market You might also like our e-waste inductor tabletop gaming dice kit! https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/inductor-full-tabletop-mtg-dnd-premium-dice-set-7-piece-dice-wooden-box-token-card Or check out our GPU Smuggling Documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI Watch Part 1 of our ASRock motherboard research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDX0l5kaYsc And watch our in-person interview with ASRock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpEJRa_Rxo0 Thanks to Buildzoid of Actually Hardcore Overclocking for peer review: https://www.youtube.com/c/ActuallyHardcoreOverclocking The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus 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 ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Writing, Editing, Test Lead Vitalii Makhnovets: Editing, Camera Tim Phetdara: Editing Tannen Williams: Writing, Testing Buildzoid: Peer Review