Investigating Reddit's Exploded 9800X3D CPU | AMD Ryzen Post-Mortem

Episode Title: "Investigating Reddit's Exploded 9800X3D CPU | AMD Ryzen Post-Mortem"
Content: Sponsor: Get 10% off Squarespace purchases (https://geni.us/BqEpf) An exploded AMD Ryzen 9800X3D CPU on reddit popped-up last month and caused a stir. The motherboard & CPU combination incinerated, with a total blowout causing not only melted socket plastics, but bubbling-up solder through the socket, pins that turned blue from heat, and scorched pads on the CPU. This post-mortem embarks on the fun of uncovering the total impact of the damage, scorched traces, damaged 24-pin plastics, and ultimately, aims to answer the cause of failure. Hopefully this helps users prevent mistakes in the future, but it's always worth taking each of these types of catastrophic failures seriously as we may learn something new. In this one, we at least learned a bit about the socket types. Watch our AMD 7800X3D exploded CPU video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTngvvD5dI Original thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1gqaryi/new_9800x3d_msi_tomahawk_x870_burned_up_i_guess/ The best way to support our work is through our store: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ Like our content? Please consider becoming our Patron to support us: http://www.patreon.com/gamersnexus TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Reddit's Catastrophic Failure 01:21 - What Happened 04:12 - Steve's Message to the Audience 06:48 - DAMAGE REPORT 09:00 - First-Hand Account 09:41 - Hypothesis 11:24 - Evidence 16:17 - 2 Types of Sockets 18:45 - Conclusion ** Please like, comment, and subscribe for more! ** Links to Amazon and Newegg are typically monetized on our channel (affiliate links) and may return a commission of sales to us from the retailer. This is unrelated to the product manufacturer. Any advertisements or sponsorships are disclosed within the video ("this video is brought to you by") and above the fold in the description. We do not ever produce paid content or "sponsored content" (meaning that the content is our idea and is not funded externally aside from whatever ad placement is in the beginning) and we do not ever charge manufacturers for coverage. Follow us in these locations for more gaming and hardware updates: t: http://www.twitter.com/gamersnexus f: http://www.facebook.com/gamersnexus w: http://www.gamersnexus.net/ Our policies, processes, and ethics statements relating to review samples, advertising, travel, errors, and more are transparently and publicly available on this page: https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements Steve Burke: Host, Lead Mike Gaglione: Editing Jeremy Clayton: Testing, Writing Tim Phetdara: Editing, Camera


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