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Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by JimBo72 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:42PM (#35719707)
This is incorrect. Multiple instances (more than 6) have thus far been reported and pictured. All four major motherboard OEMs have now come forward with patches that are designed to limit the voltage. You can see their press releases in the link below.

These companies aren't making public statements about changes to their firmware to prevent failures for no reason.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/preventing-ryzen-burnout-m...

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by kimixa on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:13PM (#35720097)
It would be so easy to link those 6 reports.

One more report I can find is this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/12yq4yb/megathread_for...

But they said they didn't enable EXPO, which is directly counter to the current theory being pushed by Toms

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/12yq4yb/megathread_for...

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by JimBo72 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:24PM (#35721713)
There are many that you could easily link. Der8auer is one, and he also reports on another in his article. then there are these, and more:

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8301821438

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/12tlk7s/comment/jhdbnp...

https://www.chiphell.com/thread-2511874-1-1.html

https://twitter.com/hms1193/status/1650879743947079680

And there are more, but I'm not going to spend the time to continue to look them up for you. This is a widespread issue with numerous public statements from motherboard vendors that they are making adjustments to specific voltages to prevent these issues.

Toms says it is Expo and/or manual SoC voltage adjustments, which has been directly proven by vendor statements.

I understand that you may think that you aren't biased here, but the fact is that this impacts your employer in a very material way, and you are obviously intentionally refusing to acknowledge the clear and present evidence, not to mention that admissions of an issue from a multitude of companies. Perhaps you should recuse yourself from this discussion as you have a personal tie that renders you unable to make logical statements.

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by arp242 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @10:56PM (#35722787)
> renders you unable to make logical statements.

Please don't do these kind of personal attacks. There are plenty of people in this thread with roughly similar opinions that "AMD employee kimixa" is expressing. Unless you want to claim they're all AMD employees it's a perfectly normal view to hold – if you disagree then you can say that without attacking people.

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by rcxdude on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:50AM (#35725124)
it's certainly not for no reason, but it could be a PR move not actually backed up by good technical evidence. The public evidence certainly most strongly hints that higher core voltages could be part of the issue, but the motherboard companies responding to that by doing the obvious thing does not necessarily mean they have actually confirmed the issue exists, just that they either think it's worth doing it just in case or as a way to avoid being seen as not doing anything about it.

This is a market segment which has had many a case of mass wild speculation and theories around a small case of reported failures, and most of the theories have turned out to be wrong.

Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by JimBo72 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:59AM (#35729148)
AMD has now specified that the issue is SoC voltage in a follow up statement. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-issues-follow-up-state...