Custom PC Builder PowerGPU claims Ryzen 5 5000 Zen 3 CPUs experiencing high failure rates

Custom PC Builder PowerGPU claims Ryzen 5 5000 Zen 3 CPUs experiencing high failure rates

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The past few months have been a whirlwind of hardware launches and subsequent shortages, causing a frustrating situation for buyers, further exacerbated by competition from thesis bots, rates leading to higher prices on some components, and cryptocurrency mining . But is there also more to worry about? Interestingly, a custom computer builder from North Carolina claims to see a higher than normal failure rate on AMD’s latest generation Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs.
These are the chips based on AMD’s highly acclaimed Zen 3 architecture. For the record, we had no unusual issues during our Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X review, which according to PC builder PowerGPU had the highest failure rates of all four available Zen 3 desktop processors within its walls. And according to the failure rates, the company is talking about chips that died on arrival (DOA).

PowerGPU says they received 50 units of the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X, of which eight were from the former DOAs, and four from the later ones as well. It occurs on 12 out of 100 chips from the Ryzen 9 family. In addition, the builder says it received 100 units from the Ryzen 7 5800X, four of which arrived at DOA, and 120 units from the Ryzen 5 5600X, three of which were defective.

That’s 19 out of 320 chips, with a failure rate of nearly 6 percent. In contrast, the company said it had only received a single dead Intel chip, a Core i7-9700K, in the past two years. When asked how many Intel CPUs it receives compared to AMD chips, the company replied: ‘Before the [Ryzen] 5000 series it was 80 percent Intel and 20 percent AMD and we have only had 1 Intel CPU die in the last two years.“

According to PowerGPU, these are not only the latest AMD CPUs to beat with a higher cut than Intel, but are also motherboards based on the accompanying 500-series chips. It has the “highest failure rate, “says the company.”Every week it is at least 3-5 plates DOA from B550 to X570s, “PowerGPU reads in a follow-up tweet.

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To give more intrigue to the situation, it seems that PowerGPU suggests that even some non-DOA chips sometimes have problems, in the short time it has been implemented in constructions. A user commented in the Twitter thread that they submitted their Ryzen 9 5900X because they ‘USB 3 lane was deadd “and others”foreign stability issues. “PowerGPU responded to the report and said:”Yes, we had it too. Just weird problems with certain.“

The situation has attracted the attention of prominent leaks on Twitter, claiming that PowerGPU is not the only one getting into trouble with Zen 3.

“In Korea, it was quite quiet on this issue. While I was checking urgently, there have been regular postings over the last few months about issues that mainly occur on B550X / X570 mobo, ” @ harukaze5719 said.

At the same time, the same analyst says that a personal cell phone computer builder in Korea told them that PowerGPU’s alleged failure rate is “ridiculous, “and note that the sample size is too small, since we are only talking about a few hundred CPUs.

Another prominent weight in that essence Yuri Bubliy, creator of the popular ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) tool. According to Bubliy, the PowerGPU numbers do not include working Ryzen chips with a “poor FCLK overclocking features“or those with”incorrect CPPC labels relative to FIT and temperature. “

We will monitor the situation to see if anything develops further. As things stand at present, we have a single computer builder raising eyebrows over an alleged high DOA rate among several hundred CPUs received, and a bit of subsequent tweaking in the Twitter thread to bring it to attention. We do not reject the demands of the builder, but neither do we alarm. We will have to wait and see if there are any more complaints.

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