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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 (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True, but the issue to me is ASRock blaming the entire problem on debris in the socket.

https://www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?iD=5612

After cleaning and removing debris from the CPU socket

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fair point. It might be an emergency PR fail, but it does feel quite embarrassing to close the topic blaming the users.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Especially when these boards have likely been sealed by AsRock until just moments before having the CPU installed.