Remember that burnt Ryzen 7 9800X3D? Apparently it's fixed after a little 'socket cleaning'

Don't clean your own CPU socket, please.

Mar 26, 2025 - 16:47
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Remember that burnt Ryzen 7 9800X3D? Apparently it's fixed after a little 'socket cleaning'

There was a bit of a frenzy earlier this year when a Reddit user shared a picture of a Ryzen 7 9800X3D that had burnt up right in the motherboard socket. Immediately, alarm bells went off. In the previous generation, AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D had similar issues with Asus motherboards, which was the cause of improper voltages being sent to the CPU. It was addressed within a few days via a microcode update. The situation with the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a bit more complicated, and now motherboard brand ASRock has officially responded.