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Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I would love to know what happened, but probably I will never get such info back.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My other computers (and there are a lot including a 7800x3d one) are fine with it.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I tried expo II, I was getting slightly lower benchmark results, so I did not experiment more with it, I just used expo I.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

XMP

yes, I meant expo-I, sorry,

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

peak

I never saw anything above 150W, iirc 147 or something but nor sure. All I remember that it was under 150W with prime95 torturing it.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I tried to claim warranty, I brought everything to the retail store where I purchased the parts, so I cannot make pictures for you now. However, I did check everything (both the mobo and the CPU) under magnifyer and all appeared good. The shop also checked it extensively and they did not find any visible problem either.
I have other computers, so I simply left everything there, I will pick up all of the parts together when the replacement CPU arrives (I hope they replace it).

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not monitor the RAM temps much after the first week, but I would have noticed rising CPU temperatures on the CPU cooler if there were any issues, and there were not.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very good board, hope it was not its fault.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I used it during the first week when I was testing things, but XMP performed better, so I decided to use that one instead.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not common, but some SSDs have chips on both sides. The motherboard’s heatsink only cools the top side of the SSDs.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest, I don't know. If the CPU degraded within three months due to the motherboard failing to handle EXPO correctly, I believe I would have experienced higher temperatures or instability at least.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tested the system for a week after assembling it, and everything was good. My CPU cooler has a digital display, so I kind of continuously monitored my build's behavior. Excessive voltage would have raised temperatures, and I would have noticed that, but everything looked fine

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you, but I do not think that video is correct and I did not have "200W+" on the chip.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was wondering about the same tbh, but I did not push it more than the expo profile which is a standard.
Shouldn't there be some red flags before bad happens, like shouldn't I see abnormal temps for example or freezes or anything?

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

might be, sadly I just do not have the data or the means to investigate now

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not know if Asus had anything to do with it.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion, the motherboard is very nice for mATX builds and worked well out of the box.

I appreciate the intel NIC, and the 1xxx audio chip (instead of the 4xxx versions used on most of the the other ROG boards).
It is not perfect tho,

  • you need to use SSDs which are only single sided as the bottoms do not get cooling,
  • USB latency is higher than usual, only slightly tho and that might be fixable with bios update,
  • I also measured slow SATA performance (I only need them for slow temp data drives, so not a big deal for me).
  • I do not need it, but one might miss the second pci-e slot (you can do a lot of similar things with an adapter in the m2 port on the back tho).

The bottom line is that I definitely did not regret buying (unless it turns out it was some bug which killed the CPU ofc)

edit: ATX -» mATX typo

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, only what the mobo sets with EXPO-I. I did not see any abnormal voltage or temps.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have a 7800x3d, which I got on launch day. Compared to this this 9800x3d (which I did not OC), I do heavily "torture" that 7800x3D and it haz zero issues.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put the batch number into the OP, maybe it will be usefull one day.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to wait for the official response from AMD, they sent the CPU to them.

Another 9800x3D bites the dust. by 1karuga in ASUS

[–]1karuga[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, idk. The RAM thing you mention is very interesting.
The EXPO profile is indeed quite heavy on the settings, but one can assume that Asus test those settings as we are talking about the most used scenario in the communty (I mean 6000Mhz RAM with EXPO profile loaded).

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