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Over the weekend, reports started to come in on sites like Reddit from many owners of PCs with AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs. They stated the chips were overheating and even burning up inside their motherboards. While the issues appear to be happening more specifically with the Ryzen 7000X3D, they are also occurring in other PCs with other Ryzen 7000 series CPUs.
AMD has been pretty quiet about these problems so far. However, Tom's Hardware has posted an article, using multiple unnamed sources, that has more information on what might be causing these CPUs to burn out. It says the issue is with higher-than-normal SoC voltages. It states:
The article also claims that these higher SoC voltage levels can "destroy thermal sensors and thermal protection mechanisms" in the Ryzen 7000 chips. These features are supposed to prevent overheating of CPUs, but if they don't work due to the higher voltage, this can obviously cause an uncontrollable burn up.
The article claims AMD is working on a fix for these problems, that will include a voltage cap for the chip's firmware, but adds that motherboard makers could still allow for voltage changes. Some motherboard makers like ASUS and MSI have released BIOS updates that are designed to help curb these problems The YouTube tech channel Der8auer received a statement from ASUS on this issue:
In the meantime, owners of PCs with AMD Ryzen 7000 series chips can take some precautions:
We will update this post if and when AMD issues an official statement.
AMD has been pretty quiet about these problems so far. However, Tom's Hardware has posted an article, using multiple unnamed sources, that has more information on what might be causing these CPUs to burn out. It says the issue is with higher-than-normal SoC voltages. It states:
The article also claims that these higher SoC voltage levels can "destroy thermal sensors and thermal protection mechanisms" in the Ryzen 7000 chips. These features are supposed to prevent overheating of CPUs, but if they don't work due to the higher voltage, this can obviously cause an uncontrollable burn up.
The article claims AMD is working on a fix for these problems, that will include a voltage cap for the chip's firmware, but adds that motherboard makers could still allow for voltage changes. Some motherboard makers like ASUS and MSI have released BIOS updates that are designed to help curb these problems The YouTube tech channel Der8auer received a statement from ASUS on this issue:
In the meantime, owners of PCs with AMD Ryzen 7000 series chips can take some precautions:
We will update this post if and when AMD issues an official statement.