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Now it's AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors alleged to be suffering from terminal voltage spikes and we're not sure if any CPUs are totally safe
First it was Intel, now it's claimed AMD CPUs are dying thanks to voltage spikes.
You may like By way of example, an ASRock B850 board running a Ryzen 9 9950X was found to consume a peak of 39 W and an average of 33 W when playing a video file, while an MSI X870E hit 58 W and 40 W by the same metrics. It's over a year since voltage spikes afflicting Intel's 13th and 14th Gen CPUs emerged, is it now AMD's turn? Moreover, all of this is at least a little familiar in the context of a similar voltage spike issue that hit the Ryzen 7000 series was patched back in 2023.
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