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The fact that the vast majority of these burnouts are on ASRock is a pretty big smoking gun to me. They're an attractive manufacturer because they're cheap, but at what cost?
My Ryzen recently died on Gigabyte.
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My Ryzen recently died on Gigabyte.
Damn. What chip was it, and how long did you have it? Did you do anything to it (overclock, change the voltage)?
>and how long did you have it?
9 months
>Did you do anything to it (overclock, change the voltage)?
Nothing, I just enabled resizable bar in bios and that's it
If the motherboards are putting too much power into the chips, why isn’t it their fault?
Isn't it the small embedded support CPU core within the CPU I/O die that controls voltages and frequencies? Sure it depends of what is configured in BIOS.
I’m far more inclined to trust any CPU manufacturer over a motherboard manufacturer.
Having worked with a MOBO manufacturer, I would say that this is somewhat plausible though not necessarily the fault of the engineers. In my experience, both users and company administration, e.g. sales, CEOs have a lot to do with failures. An example, users are used to a particular MOBO brand, they want to try the new gadget-a video card usually, which requires much more power than the recommended power supply. They…
The users do not bear responsibility here. It's up to the manufacturer to say no if it's not possible.
And why are managers testing new GPU/mobo combinations? A company run like that and not learning lessons deserves to fail.
That's why I like Apple's vertical integration. If something breaks it's 100% their fault that they need to make right to the consumer, they can't tell you to GTFO and go blame someone else to escape responsibility.
God, there's SO many examples of Apple being terrible.
But it has to be said, that it in this specific instance it seems that only asorck is affected (and has been for months at this point thanks to GN investigation) so my bet is to just wait and see what happens.
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Yeah I know about their extended warranty; then their responsiveness is obviously due to the extended warranty, not any comparative admission of liability. As to "Dell support has flown a repair guy to my place with spare hardware pieces " . You don't know that he wasn't already planning to fly to your area for 5+ other customers anyway. Also it's a less impressive story if you live in a heavily tech area than if you…
> As to "Dell support has flown a repair guy to my place with spare hardware pieces ". You don't know that he wasn't already planning to fly to your area for 5+ other customers anyway. I can tell you that wasn't the case because it was a small town that had a small airport. And they sent the guy next-day from my report. He told me he just flew for my issue and was returning on the same day. If it was some large city…
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> As to "Dell support has flown a repair guy to my place with spare hardware pieces ". You don't know that he wasn't already planning to fly to your area for 5+ other customers anyway. I can tell you that wasn't the case because it was a small town that had a small airport. And they sent the guy next-day from my report. He told me he just flew for my issue and was returning on the same day. If it was some large city…
Dell has multiple warranty levels, and some of them are prohibitively expensive, i.e. average more expensive than replacing the item after 2 yrs.
I just find it amazing that for home desktop PC customers, $45/y gets you 1-2 business day repair in your office.