Hi All--<P>If you have some dead/defective cpus, please look at this list if you are about to throw them out. I am looking for these dead CPUs:<P>Athlon 700s (slot a)<BR>Celerons 500mhz and ...

Crumbs in the socket, nothing to see here. So, said ASRock last week in a blog post addressing reports of dead AMD Ryzen 9000 chips in its motherboards. But does that really fly in the context of ...

so i've got, sitting next to me, a machine that died on the operating table. came in with a virus, now has a dead cpu.<BR><BR>emachines t3025<BR>athlon xp 3000+ (AQZFA, AXDA3000DKV4D)<BR>AV31 ...

One unlucky PC builder in South Korea has managed to lose three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs to the same ASRock B850 Pro RS motherboard — and none of it involved overclocking.

ASRock claims that the reason some owners of its 800-series motherboards have found their new PCs unable to boot, or even damaging their CPUs, is because of debris in the socket. Reportedly, after ...

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