Damn, and I had been starting to think ASRock was a pretty solid motherboard maker at this point… Not a good look…
It might still be. The article does mention that the numbers might be caused by its popularity and that the issue isn’t exclusive to it.
True, but the issue to me is ASRock blaming the entire problem on debris in the socket.
https://www.asrock.com/news/index.us.asp?iD=5612
After cleaning and removing debris from the CPU socket
Fair point. It might be an emergency PR fail, but it does feel quite embarrassing to close the topic blaming the users.
I too had a barely year old AMD CPU go pop in an ASRock motherboard about 15 years ago. Bought the same CPU again and stuck it in an ASUS board and it is still running today. I know they have a better reputation these days, but this is the kind of thing that just shouldn’t happen.
I got one of these Ryzen 7 5800X CPUs and I was running it against a much more updated Intel CPU on blender rendering using the Luxcore engine which simulates light rays. The gaming AMD CPU kicked the Intel Xeon gold 5218 to the curve. Usually the thing is just sitting idle, but when I need the power it delivers.
Yes sir, it is indeed a known issue with these boards, however you are going to need to send yours in for us to test for the simple fact that you genuinely sound like the kind of person that would have crumbs in their socket.