Re:GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?
by nolok on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:05AM
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While it is noctua advice, I don't think AMD supports that view, so it would seem correct to at least test the cpu the way the vendor recommends before making conclusions
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You may have missed the part in the article that says that they only switched to offset mounting after their first Ryzen 9950X died when the cooler was mounted centered.
> But note that the 1st failure happened with a more centred heat sink. We only made the off-centre mounting for the 2nd system as to minimise the risk of a repeated system failure.