AMD announce new processors

[Gregory Verba]

27 minutes ago, Rob Ainscough said:

WARNING: AMD CPU could melt ... fortunately ASUS have released a couple of BIOS/EFI to fix the SoC issue.  I haven't suffered any issues on my two AMD 7 series CPUs but I have updated my BIOS/EFI just in case.

So if anyone is getting an AMD, make sure you get latest BIOS/EFI from the motherboard vendor.

Cheers, Rob.

I think it is a mandatory update at least for the ASUS boards. It looks like the ASUS took the voltages again to the maximum without a proper reason. 

[Rob Ainscough]

I've updated both my ASUS boards with their latest BIOS/EFI with the SoC fix ... everything seems good, but I wasn't having any issues before so don't really have any metric to compare against.

AMD failure was that they didn't protect the CPU from rouge Motherboard vendors ... I'm not sure what has been going on with ASUS lately ... perhaps the pandemic affected them more than others and their QA and EE were severely impacted.  Shame, ASUS have been extremely reliable in the past for me.

 

 

[Gregory Verba]

I think Asus is still very good and realible vendor. I heard other vendors has also similar overvoltage issue. Generally speaking we can see so many issues with different products recently like Nvidia 4090 connector melt down and etc. I think something with QA, QC procedures not going well as before. Anyway I ordered mine 7950x3d with Asus X670E-E motherboard today lol.

[Rob Ainscough]

23 hours ago, Gregory Verba said:

Asus X670E-E motherboard today

Excellent, make sure the first thing you do is update the BIOS/EFI ... it's unlikely it will arrive with the fixed BIOS/EFI.

Cheers, Rob.

[Rob Ainscough]

On 5/4/2023 at 9:19 AM, Gregory Verba said:

I think Asus is still very good and realible vendor.

I'm not so sure any more ... after some of the decisions ASUS made recently with SoC issue and voiding warranties and just overall lack of quality control and support.

Shame, ASUS used to be top on my Motherboard list ... I spent $1000 for my ASUS Motherboard, much of that expense is support and quality ... and I got neither.  They also made some bad design decisions in regards to PCIE-16 slot 1 where a OLED panel blocks my ability to use a full coverage water block on the GPU.

If you believe Jay, Steve, Linus and other reviewers they hammered ASUS for their poor customer support/response to major issues.  I think Jay even dropped ASUS as a sponsor.

I wish EVGA produced AM5 motherboards, I would buy one in a heartbeat.

[Gregory Verba]

On 5/23/2023 at 11:45 PM, Rob Ainscough said:

I'm not so sure any more ... after some of the decisions ASUS made recently with SoC issue and voiding warranties and just overall lack of quality control and support.

Shame, ASUS used to be top on my Motherboard list ... I spent $1000 for my ASUS Motherboard, much of that expense is support and quality ... and I got neither.  They also made some bad design decisions in regards to PCIE-16 slot 1 where a OLED panel blocks my ability to use a full coverage water block on the GPU.

If you believe Jay, Steve, Linus and other reviewers they hammered ASUS for their poor customer support/response to major issues.  I think Jay even dropped ASUS as a sponsor.

I wish EVGA produced AM5 motherboards, I would buy one in a heartbeat.

I think people making too much drama. I finished to build my new system a few days ago and very happy so far. 7950x3d is a beast, very efficient and running cool. I updated bios to the latest one, vsoc voltage limitation is implemented. Corsair ram expo profile was not working by default but after a few adjustments running perfect @6000 MHz.

[Rob Ainscough]

I'm having same issue with EXPO on one of ASUS AM5 boards (other one is fine) ... frequently crashing after latest EFI updates for SoC cap.  I need to figure out whats happening ... hopefully the CPU hasn't been damaged due to SoC issue.

Prior to these slew of EFI updates this same PC was running without issue, so clearly something not right in the EFI or CPU got damaged.  I'll look for the bump on die.

I'm not going to drop ASUS completely but I'm going to evaluate other vendors more closely.