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

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Recent months have seen a whirlwind of hardware launches and subsequent shortages, creating a frustration situation for buyers compounded by competition from scripted bots, rates leading to higher prices for some components and cryptocurrency mining. But is there more to it? Interestingly, a North Carolina custom PC builder claims to see a higher-than-normal failure rate on AMD’s latest generation Ryzen 5000 series desktop CPUs.
These are the chips based on AMD’s acclaimed Zen 3 architecture. For the record, we didn’t encounter any unusual issues during our Ryzen 9 5950X and 5900X test, which according to PC builder PowerGPU had the highest failure rates of all four available Zen 3 desktop processors, within its walls. And due to failure rates, the company is talking about chips that are dead on arrival (DOA).

PowerGPU says it has received 50 units of the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X each, eight of which were from the first DOA and four from the later ones. That equates to 12 out of 100 chips from the Ryzen 9 family. Additionally, the builder says it has received 100 units of the Ryzen 7 5800X, four of which have arrived DOA, and 120 units of the Ryzen 5 5600X, three of which were defective.

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

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

Ryzen 5000 Series Retail Boxes

PowerGPU adds more intrigue to the situation and seems to suggest that even some non-DOA chips have issues at times, in the short time it has implemented them in builds. A user responded in the Twitter thread they sent in their Ryzen 9 5900X because their “USB 3 lanes were okd “and other”weird stability issuesPowerGPU replied to the post saying, “Yes, we have. Just weird problems with certain.

The situation caught the attention of a prominent leaker on Twitter, who claims that PowerGPU is not alone in experiencing issues with Zen 3.

In Korea, it was actually quite quiet on this matter. As I have checked urgently there have been regular posts complaining about issues in recent months, mainly on B550X / X570 mobo @ harukaze5719 said

At the same time, the same leaker says it has been told by a homemade PC builder in Korea that the alleged PowerGPU failure rate is “ridiculous, “and noted that the sample size is too small since we’re only talking about a few hundred CPUs.

Yet another prominent individual weight in that being Yuri Bubliy, creator of the popular ClockTuner for Ryzen (CTR) utility. According to Bubliy, the numbers posted by PowerGPU exclude working Ryzen chips with “poor FCLK overclocking capabilities‘or the one with’incorrect CPPC tags regarding FIT and temperature

We are monitoring the situation to see if anything develops. As things stand, we have a single PC builder raising eyebrows about a claimed high DOA speed among a few hundred received CPUs, and a bit of subsequent mob in the Twitter thread highlighting it. We do not reject the contractor’s claims, but neither do we raise the alarm. We will wait and see if more complaints emerge.

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