AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU Burns Up, Kills Itself & The ASUS X670 Motherboard

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There are reports of AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPUs burning up and killing the ASUS X670 series motherboard with it from the AMD subreddit.

It's been less than a month since AMD launched its much anticipated Ryzen 7 7800X3D 3D V-Cache CPU. The CPU has been selling like hotcakes in the DIY segment but it looks like the first report of it dying has been reported in the AMD Subreddit. Reddit user, u/Speedrookie, posted about this AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU which stopped working. The system featured a ROG STRIX X670-E board by ASUS and was seen running in idle mode with fan speeds at full. The motherboard had 00 QCode on the DEBUG LED.

Upon taking the system apart, the user noticed that the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU had a massive bulge on its contact pad, and the underlying LGA pins were also burnt out around the same spot. It can be seen that the burn marks cover around 10-12 gold contact pads on the chip's underside and it renders the chip unusable. The burn marks on the socket also mean that the board has died out.

The user has not mentioned if there was any overclocking or overvoltages involved and it's hard to get to the root of the problem without more information but there is evidence that this problem may be related to ASUS's X670 series motherboards. A Russian channel that goes by the name of VIK-off also reported similar issues on ASUS's AM5 motherboards running a totally different Ryzen CPU (Ryzen 9 7950X3D).

We should also mention that overclocker, Der8auer, recently published a video where he killed an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU by pushing the voltages too high. The motherboard in his case was also an ASUS AM5 product, the ROG X670E Crosshair Extreme. This motherboard also reported the "00" code after dying out. It was reported