ASRock confirms its BIOS settings are killing Ryzen CPUs, is fully committed to fixing any damaged motherboards

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ASRock confirmed that it is responsible Ryzen 9000 failures plaguing ASRock motherboard owners. In a discussion between Gamers Nexus and ASRock's VP of motherboards, Chris Lee, the company confirmed its latest BIOS revision, 3.25, alters certain PBO settings to stop Ryzen 9000 chips from failing.

A few days ago, YouTuber Tech Yes City revealed that ASRock had allegedly solved its Ryzen 9000 problem. The issue surrounded three power and voltage-related functions, Electric Design Current (EDC) and Thermal Design Current (TDC) in Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO), and shadow voltages which were set too high in older ASRock firmware. ASRock has since provided BIOS version 3.25 to its armada of AM5 motherboards with re-tuned EDC, TDC, and shadow voltage settings to rectify the issue.
 
Love the work Gamer Nexus does for PC consumers.

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I had an ASRock board around a decade and some change ago.

Never.
Again.

Worst boards in the industry, they simply cannot be trusted, and they tend to lead to unstable rigs too, lots of crashing. Some people have good luck with ASRock, but I will never trust any of their products again.
 
Anyone advising aspiring PC owners REALLY need to tell them to check the BIOS CPU voltages before doing any gaming. It really needs to be one of the first things you do after booting. These mfgs really think it sets them apart. When the trust is, 83% of PC gamers buy their mobo based on what CPU + MOBO combo is available that day. Only the highest trim level stuff is actually gonna get comparison shopped. I've never done motherboard research before buying. But honestly I can't remember the last time I didn't get a mobo as part of a MicroCenter combo. Had amazing perfect timing to get a 7800x3D + 32GB RAM + Mobo combo for less than what I see 7800x3Ds going for alone the past few months. I think that was supposed to make up for 40+ years of hilariously shit luck when it comes to purchase timing.
 
As far as motherboard hierarchy my ranking would be:

1. Asus
2. MSI
3. Just maybe Gigabyte ... but Probably not.
4. Save up for 1 or 2
 
RoboFu said:
Who actually buys ASrock products?
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While doing some research on PC components earlier this year, i found alot of TechTubers MOBO tier lists with Asrock boards always coming on top. I still picked an Asus board, cuz both my 1st PC i built and my laptop had Asus boards and they lasted more than 10 years, so while Asus also drops the ball here and there, its a brand that has been very reliable to me.
 
RoboFu said:
As far as motherboard hierarchy my ranking would be:

1. Asus
2. MSI
3. Just maybe Gigabyte ... but Probably not.
4. Save up for 1 or 2
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I've owned two Gigabyte boards and never had a problem. Asus board I owned had some issues that seem to go away on their own so probably a driver problem. Took far too long to start up though.
 
Draugoth said:
Dont update if it's working for you.
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Still sitting in the box. Have been waiting for prices to come down on the CPU which they have now.
simpatico said:
Just wanted to make sure this didn't end up being a missed connection.
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Admittedly this is the first ASRock board I've bought but I've known people that swear by them and have never had any issues. Lot of the big names like ASUS are overpriced now in the same vein as NVIDIA.
 
RoboFu said:
Who actually buys ASrock products?
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I did have an ASRock motherboard on my older mini-itx PC back in the day, and for the price then it had the most loaded features I wanted.

Never had an issue with it, still worked when I moved it in the living room so it's creeping up to 8 years.
 
RoboFu said:
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I would buy another again.

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Back in the day I had a Phenom II on a Asrock mobo with everything overclocked and it was rock solid. So solid I sold everything like 10 years later and made back like 55% of what I spent.

Thing is, Asrock is, or was, the white label brand of ASUS before they had to spin it out. Thinking they didn't share technologies even when spin out would be a bit naive. And now it's back under ASUS but part of another ASUS company, Pegatron.
 
RoboFu said:
As far as motherboard hierarchy my ranking would be:

1. Asus
2. MSI
3. Just maybe Gigabyte ... but Probably not.
4. Save up for 1 or 2
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Agree #1

But I'd put Gigabyte over MSI. I've had many gigabyte boards over the years, never had a problem.

In fact, posting this from my B550 AORUS Pro
 
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Nonehxc said:
I would buy another again.

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Back in the day I had a Phenom II on a Asrock mobo with everything overclocked and it was rock solid. So solid I sold everything like 10 years later and made back like 55% of what I spent.

Thing is, Asrock is, or was, the white label brand of ASUS before they had to spin it out. Thinking they didn't share technologies even when spin out would be a bit naive. And now it's back under ASUS but part of another ASUS company, Pegatron.
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Hold Up What GIF
 
They have always been a Great Value brand. I've never trusted any of their boards in my builds, fuck I look like lol

I've used Asus and MSI for my builds for a long time and I don't plan on switching shit up lol If anything, this has shown not to cheap out on such a component.
 
- Buy Ryzen 7950x3D and Asus B650E-F in March 2023
- CPU and board "die" just like these 9800x3D chips, after only 3 weeks of use
- RMA CPU and board
- Second set die in a month
- RMA CPU and board
- Third set lasts 2 months before EXPO 2 is no longer bootable
- Run EXPO 1 for about 8 months
- Black screen while watching Twitch
- System won't POST again
- See all the other people having problems have Asus boards
- See ASRock boards with the lowest failure rates among Ryzen 7000 series
- Decide to go all in on a 9950x3D and... ASRock X870E Nova
- This shit starts happening

I swear to god if I lose these parts again I'm done with AMD for life. That is burned one too many bridges for me to ever be a customer of theirs again. I don't care how good their RMA process went compared to other companies, this situation sucks ass. I'm looking at my rig like it's a ticking time bomb. Even as I type this up right now on it, I wonder, will tonight be the night? Tomorrow? Next week? So on and so forth. I can't enjoy my rig. You'd think it's a simple situation, you spend all this money for hardware, you have 25 years experience building perfectly functional rigs, it should just work. But nope, garbage engineering and quality control = dead CPUs. Please just let this shit work for me and not die. I can't be dealing with this shit again.
 
RoboFu said:
As far as motherboard hierarchy my ranking would be:

1. Asus
2. MSI
3. Just maybe Gigabyte ... but Probably not.
4. Save up for 1 or 2
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Asus is the most garbage of all dude... Everywhere you look the consensus is to avoid ASUS.

AsRock was pretty reliable until this incident. More than Asus that's for sure.
 
MSI, AsRock and Asus (mobos) are still not out of my do-not-buy list, and likely never will.
 
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Funny... AsRock denied my RMA a few months ago because I was about 4 months past the one year period of purchase... My 7000 series Ryzen CPU randomly stopped working on the board and caused me SO many issues.

Thankfully AMD accepted my RMA and I purchased a new Mobo (different brand). No more issues. Fuck AsRock. My old mobo is just sitting there...it works but I am scared to use it now and I spent $300 for it not too long ago.

Can anything be done here? Purchased on Amazon about 2 years ago now.
 
Topher said:
I've owned two Gigabyte boards and never had a problem. Asus board I owned had some issues that seem to go away on their own so probably a driver problem. Took far too long to start up though.
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Spend enough time in the PC space and everyone will have stories like that. The only two motherboards I've had fail were both from MSI and one of them even had an issue similar to this one where the default settings would overvolt the CPU and cause it to overheat.

It's just luck of the draw for the most part.
 
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phant0m said:
yo it's still wild fatal1ty was good at quake for a minute like 20 years ago and he's still making $ off brand deals
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My old board is ASRock Fatal1ty H87, bought it not because of that Quake player but it had good review scores. Seems overkill since I never made use of the 2nd PCI slot for graphics or even utilize any of the 3 PCI slots.

So I went MATX for recent built instead of ATX.
 
MayauMiao said:
Seems overkill since I never made use of the 2nd PCI slot for graphics or even utilize any of the 3 PCI slots.
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Most people probably wouldn't utilise the additional "features" that the overpriced high end motherboards have. A good mid range board is enough for the vast majority. Some spent a lot for no reason other than epeen.
 
phant0m said:
yo it's still wild fatal1ty was good at quake for a minute like 20 years ago and he's still making $ off brand deals
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hey! not just Quake. he also won tournaments in AvP2, Doom 3, Unreal Tournament, and he had an insane comback win in a Painkiller tournament
 
dreamstation said:
Most people probably wouldn't utilise the additional "features" that the overpriced high end motherboards have. A good mid range board is enough for the vast majority. Some spent a lot for no reason other than epeen.
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Honestly if my old board was able to support 6/8-core processors I would probably just replace the CPU and still be using it for a few more years.
 
Bought Asrock MB some years ago for my gamedev setup, when prices were skyrocket (2020 / 21) and wanted to save a few bucks...

N.E.V.E.R A.G.A.I.N

Back to MSI or Asus, even if more expensive.
 
When I was building a few months back the general consensus seemed to be "They're all bad but MSI is the least bad"

It's not a very positive outlook, but I guess people carry experiences with them and there will always be someone that had an issue with any given mobo.
 
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