Not just crumbs in the CPU socket: Over 100 AMD 9800X3D chips are now reported to have gone pop and the most by far have died in ASRock motherboards
To be more specific, at one recent count on Reddit, 98 9800X3Ds are reported to have expired in ASRock motherboards. But ...
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ASRock claims to fix 'burned out' AM5 motherboard by cleaning the socket
ASRock cleaned up and removed debris from a customer's failed ASRock AM5 motherboard. Despite clear signs of socket damage, ...
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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 ...
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Did you know, there was a CPU socket that accepted both Intel and AMD chips?
Released in March 1994, Socket 5 was designed for second-gen P5 Pentium processors among other Intel parts, but could also accept AMD K5 chips, as well as 6x86 Cyrix CPUs and IDT's WinChip series.