- AMD Ryzen CPU depletions have been a problem for some time
- Team Red has now clarified that this is a problem because some motherboards do not run with the recommended AMD values
- Instead, they press too with energy and voltage, and exhaustion are still reported daily
AMD has officially commented on the exhaustions that destroy the chips that have affected a small number of its Ryzen processors, and it has contributed guilt at the feet of the manufacturers of motherboard, anyway.
Tom’s hardware noticed an interview with AMD executives, David Mcafee and Travis Kirsch, made by Quasarzone (a technological site of South Korea) in which the Red team was interrogated about the problem of exhaustion related to the Ryzen chips (3D V-Cache or the X3D models, including the Ryzen 9800x3d), and mainly (but not exclusively) Motherboards.
Given that this is an article translated, so we must be careful with the interpretation, Quasarzone said that CPUs in AM5 motherboards have been “experiencing socket exhaustion” and that “some users still report these symptoms.” Then, the technology site asked what was AMD’s position and response regarding the problem.
AMD responded to say (again, remember that this is a translation): “This problem arises because some ODM biosis do not adhere to the recommended AMD values.”
The term MDGs refers to the manufacturer of motherboard (original design manufacturer), and what this is essentially saying that these manufacturers do not adhere to AMD stock values (around the power, the voltage and more) with their tables. In other words, these companies are pressing stronger than they should, which could cause a problem.
It is not a definitive conclusion here, mind, because executives continue to say: “AMD … offers a wide range of combinations and also admits pbo [AMD’s automated performance boosting feature] and overclocking. This means that there are a lot of possible scenarios. While this is a complex problem, we are working closely with our partners to solve problems and evolve the platform further. “
Therefore, it is a complex problem to download, and AMD emphasizes that it is working with the manufacturers of motherboards to solve any problem.
Executives also mention that it is greatly recommended that any owner of the AM5 motherboard is updated to the latest version of the BIOS, which is good advice for any motherboard. (The last finished launch of the BIOS, I must clarify: I do not try to use new versions that are still in beta tests).
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Therefore, this is not a crystalline statement of AMD in any way, and translation complications must be taken into account (yes, I am doing a little about that, because it is an important nuance), but there is a significant enough of the finger in the direction of the manufacturers of the motherboard that push too much with their configurations.
As mentioned, Asrock’s motherboards have been particularly in the shooting line such as the most commonly informed hardware manufacturer that is affected (by a long road), but other suppliers have also been beaten by CPU fault incidents.
While Asrock initially blamed a “memory compatibility problem present in previous BIOS versions” and expelled an update from the BIOS to solve that, this did not do the trick to cure exhaustion. As Tom Hardware points out, a subsequent update of the BIOS that arrived in May 2025 modified several PBO settings and this (finally) softened most of the problems, if not all.
Unfortunately, there are still reports of the Ryzen X3D CPU exhaustion that drip Reddit on a daily basis, so this is a thorny. Does Asrock still have a job to do in terms of perfecting your bios to avoid these incidents? Or could it be a case of chips that have already been pressed too much, for too long, suffering the damage caused under the hood and finally renouncing the ghost (with the last update of the BIOS cannot save them, since they were too far)?
There is still too much riddles, frankly, and it is an unfortunate situation for both AMD and especially Asrock. Although it is not as if Intel has not had worse problems, so I refer to instability fails with processors 13 and 14 generation of the Team Blue (that has been a saga).
