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Re:50+ Segmentation Faults per Hour: Continuing to Stress Ryzen by qeternity on Saturday August 05, 2017 @05:18PM (#14937963)
In the article (or perhaps the original article that is linked in this one) they explain that they ran the same tests on Intel processors without any issues whatsoever...
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Re:50+ Segmentation Faults per Hour: Continuing to Stress Ryzen by VThornheart on Saturday August 05, 2017 @05:29PM (#14938022)
Except that people are indeed running the same test on Intel systems and getting the same segfaults:

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...

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Re:50+ Segmentation Faults per Hour: Continuing to Stress Ryzen by jfim on Saturday August 05, 2017 @05:27PM (#14938011)
Could be an issue with the motherboard, BIOS, or RAM though. If this was repeated across multiple motherboards, CPUs and RAM combinations to exclude the possibility of it being a flaky part, then yes, sure.
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