A Reddit user showed off their damaged 9800X3D, but a closer look at the story points to a likely user error, rather than a ...

leading the CPU to be incorrectly aligned. From there, it's not hard to imagine how various pins and pads could have shorted out, leading to burn marks and damage. What's less certain, for now at ...

AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D has just burnt out on an MSI X870 motherboard ... voltages through the gold contact pads ‘excessively’, leading to the CPU burning out. However, some commenters in ...