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Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by wnevets on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:13PM (#35722890)
> Thus indicating a design flaw of being prone to user error, but nowhere near the "fire hazard" type comments that were going around at the time (particularly on reddit).

wasn't that an actual fire hazard tho? Gamers Nexus just paid to proved the cause was because users werent connecting them correctly.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors by dotnet00 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @10:17AM (#35728442)
Yeah, it's a fire hazard when improperly installed, what I meant is that people were responding as if any nvidia card would just burst into flames even with everything properly connected.
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