GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?

Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? by RachelF on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @11:16PM (#45047971)

AMD has failed to be reliable with its Zen 4 and Zen 5 consumer CPUs, just at the same time Intel did the same with their 13k and 14k higher end CPUs.

AMD is somewhat worse than Intel as their DDR5 memory bus is very "twitchy" making it hard to get the highest DDR5 timings, especially with multiple DIMMs per channel.

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Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? by akimbostrawman on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:18AM (#45049383)

I don't think it's reasonable to call memory timing tweaking stability issues worse than a cpu dying from heat under normal usage.

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Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? by a-french-anon on Thursday August 28, 2025 @09:18AM (#45051809)

What do you mean? Is your second sentence the only reason for the first?

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Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? by AuryGlenz on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:17AM (#45053287)

I had to put together an AM5 computer pretty quickly after I accidentally fried some components in my last computer, so I got a Microcenter bundle.

I got 2x32GB sticks of RAM with the plan to throw in another two sticks later. I had no idea that was now a bad plan. I wish manufacturers would have just put 2 DIMM slots on motherboards as a “warning.”

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Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs? by rangestransform on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:33PM (#45055425)

I think that's just a result of being at the limit of what a right-angle memory slot can handle, it's about time that desktop move to CAMM or soldered memory

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