[STEAM] This burned-out AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D gaming CPU isn't what it seems

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A curious

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post showing a burned-out AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D could have new AMD CPU owners concerned. Questions have been asked about whether the motherboard or CPU itself is faulty, but it looks like it could be down to a simple user error, rather than a more serious design problem.

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would be a wider fault with its brand new chip, which is already the

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you can buy. That would certainly put a spring in the steps of

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, which itself has faced a terrible crisis with voltage fluctuations in its Raptor Lake CPUs, leading to game crashes and even damaged CPUs. However, the physical evidence of this burned

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doesn't point to a flawed design that needs fixing in this case, as we'll explain.

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