Help deciding if I should return my Motherboard

[Walpy]

Hey, so since all those 9800x3d are dying, I have been wondering if I might want to return my ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2, because of ASRock being the very highest in numbers of Motherboard that had the CPU die.

I would likely go for the Gigabyte B650 A ELITE AX V2. My only real problem with this is, that the ASRock is part of an order which I get 40€ Cashback on. So if I go for the Gigabyte that would be -40€ from losing the Cashback, and -60€ from the increase in price of Motherboard.

Now I'm really unsure if it's worth it, since we don't know if it really is the motherboards at fault or how the exact number of sales for the different brands, might affect the numbers of CPU's dead.

I guess one other point for returning is the possibility of the HDV/M.2 not being good enough for the 9800x3d, as I saw one or two reddit posts that mentioned the CPU being a little unstable on this board, maybe due to voltage reasons.

Hope I can some opinions on this, as I'm just very unsure on what to do here.

[jaslion]

Id just keep it as is and update rhe bios if they bring a new one out. Werent a couple of those just user error?

 

Unlike the 4090/5090 12v power connector thing which is an easy to reproduce widespread issue that affects in proportion to how many exist a lot of them this 9800x3d issue has only reached a handfull and there's for sure more of those chips out there than 4090/5090 cards . Or well look at intel if you wanna see a real widespread thing wirh cpu's :p.

 

So id say just keep it and wait to see if this is a real issue or just a nothingburger.

[PDifolco]

9 minutes ago, Walpy said:

Hey, so since all those 9800x3d are dying, I have been wondering if I might want to return my ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2, because of ASRock being the very highest in numbers of Motherboard that had the CPU die.

I would likely go for the Gigabyte B650 A ELITE AX V2. My only real problem with this is, that the ASRock is part of an order which I get 40€ Cashback on. So if I go for the Gigabyte that would be -40€ from losing the Cashback, and -60€ from the increase in price of Motherboard.

Now I'm really unsure if it's worth it, since we don't know if it really is the motherboards at fault or how the exact number of sales for the different brands, might affect the numbers of CPU's dead.

I guess one other point for returning is the possibility of the HDV/M.2 not being good enough for the 9800x3d, as I saw one or two reddit posts that mentioned the CPU being a little unstable on this board, maybe due to voltage reasons.

Hope I can some opinions on this, as I'm just very unsure on what to do here.

You're overreacting

I've seen a couple of dead CPUs discussed about, probably due to user error (CPU wasn't even positioned correctly in one case ...), with nothing pointing at a board fault

 

 

[Agall]

14 minutes ago, Walpy said:

ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2, because of ASRock being the very highest in numbers of Motherboard that had the CPU die.

If you've been using it for some time now without issue, then I think replacing the motherboard is more of a risk than sticking with what's working.

[Tetras]

Afaik the issue was with newer X870 boards? Either way, I'd just update your BIOS and keep the cashback.

[podkall]

21 minutes ago, Walpy said:

Hey, so since all those 9800x3d are dying, I have been wondering if I might want to return my ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2, because of ASRock being the very highest in numbers of Motherboard that had the CPU die.

where did you learn that?

 

ASRock could be highest number of MB deaths, for a very specific reason that ASRock usually is the cheapest MB especially at the lower end of budget range.

 

HDV/M.2 is very solid and established board

[jaslion]

5 minutes ago, podkall said:

ASRock could be highest number of MB deaths, for a very specific reason that ASRock usually is the cheapest MB especially at the lower end of budget range.

They are also a VERY common pick in system integrator prebuilds so it really does just feel like a in tens of thousands of installs 3 chips died somehow.

[podkall]

1 minute ago, jaslion said:

They are also a VERY common pick in system integrator prebuilds so it really does just feel like a in tens of thousands of installs 3 chips died somehow.

I'm not surprised, if they can get retailed for cheap, they must be very cheap for prebuild companies.

[Walpy]

Alright, thanks for the answers, I'll be keeping the Motherboard, and hope it'll work fine when the CPU arrives.

[Tetras]

On 3/19/2025 at 2:27 PM, podkall said:

where did you learn that?

 

ASRock could be highest number of MB deaths, for a very specific reason that ASRock usually is the cheapest MB especially at the lower end of budget range.

 

HDV/M.2 is very solid and established board

ASRock have acknowledged that there was an issue, however (BIOS update message):

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Improve minority proportion of AMD 9000 series CPU boot issue.

"minority proportion" 

 

They said the CPU wasn't actually dead too, but don't know how they worked that out.