Custom PC Builder PowerGPU claims that Ryzen 5 5000 Zen 3 CPUs experience high failure rates

Custom PC Builder PowerGPU claims that Ryzen 5 5000 Zen 3 CPUs experience high failure rates

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The past few months have been a whirlwind of hardware releases and subsequent scarcity, creating a situation of frustration for buyers that is further exacerbated by competition from scripted bots, tariffs that lead to higher prices on some components and cryptocurrency mining. But is there also more to worry about? Interestingly, a North Carolina custom PC manufacturer says it is seeing a higher than normal failure rate on AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 5000 desktop CPUs.
These are chips based on AMD’s highly praised Zen 3 architecture. For the record, we had no unusual problems during our review of the Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X, which according to PC builder PowerGPU, had the highest failure rates of all four Zen 3 desktop processors available, within its walls. And for failure rates, the company is talking about chips that die on arrival (DOA).

PowerGPU says it received 50 units of each Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X, of which eight from the former were DOA, and four from the latter as well. This corresponds to 12 of the 100 chips in the Ryzen 9 family. In addition, the builder says he received 100 units of the Ryzen 7 5800X, of which four arrived DOA, and 120 units of the Ryzen 5 5600X, of which three were defective.

That’s 19 out of 320 chips, for a failure rate of almost 6 percent. In contrast, the company said it had only received a single inoperative Intel chip, a Core i7-9700K, in the past two years. When asked how many CPUs Intel receives compared to AMD chips, the company replied: “Before the [Ryzen] 5000 series, it was 80 percent Intel and 20 percent AMD and we had only 1 Intel processor in the last 2 years.“

According to the PowerGPU, not only are the latest AMD processors failing at a higher level than Intel, they are also the motherboards based on the accompanying 500 series chipset. These have the “highest failure rate“says the company.”Every week is at least 3-5 DOA plates from B550 to X570’s, “PowerGPU states in a follow-up tweet.

Ryzen 5000 series retail boxes

Adding more intrigue to the situation, PowerGPU seems to suggest that even some non-DOA chips sometimes have problems, in the short time it has implemented them in builds. A user commented on the Twitter thread he sent on his Ryzen 9 5900X because “USB 3 lanes were deafrom another”strange stability problems. “PowerGPU replied to the post by saying,”Yes, we had that too. Just weird problems with some.“

The situation caught the attention of a major Twitter leaker, who claims that the PowerGPU is not the only one who is having problems with Zen 3.

“In fact, in Korea, there was not much discussion on this subject. As I checked with urgency, there are frequent posts complaining about problems mainly with the mobo B550X / X570 in the last months, ” @ harukaze5719 said.

At the same time, the same leak says that it was informed by a custom DIY PC builder in Korea that the alleged failure rate of the PowerGPU is “ridiculous, “and noting that the sample size is very small, since we’re only talking about a few hundred CPUs.

Yet another prominent individual weight, that being Yuri Bubliy, creator of the popular ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) utility. According to Bubliy, the numbers posted by the PowerGPU do not include functional Ryzen chips with “poor FCLK overclocking capabilities“or those with”incorrect CPPC tags regarding FIT and temperature. “

We will be keeping an eye on the situation to see if anything else happens. As it stands, we have a single PC builder raising eyebrows over an allegedly high DOA rate among a few hundred CPUs received, and a little bit of subsequent turmoil on the Twitter topic drawing attention. We are not rejecting the builder’s claims, but likewise, we are not sounding the alarm either. We will have to wait and see if more complaints arise.

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